30 Songs in 30 Days – Day Five – How To Build An Empire

About fifteen years ago, I took a week’s holiday just to make music. I was new to recording, so after working flat out for 6 or 7 days, everything I’d recorded was rubbish. I hadn’t figured out how to set the gain levels and mix tracks, so everything sounded horrible. I was pretty glum about it, and, come Sunday evening, when work was looming the following morning and I had a terrible sinking feeling that I’d blown a golden chance, I picked up the guitar and wrote How To Build An Empire: