This clearly left its mark: his children are called Dalloway and Larkin and he mentions an abiding love of Jane Austen. Armstrong fell into producing after meeting Rob Dougan — later the author of the inescapable Elgar-sampling chill-out track Clubbed to Death — at a party while travelling in Australia.
The pair cornered an English producer at another party, who agreed to get them studio time provided they worked with his girlfriend, a model with ambitions to sing.
We got an advance. Then I got sick of Australia, came home with the money and bought a sampler. That happened in the space of two to three months. It was totally not planned. She only agreed to make her recent comeback album Still On My Mind — another Top 3 hit — on condition that he work with her.
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Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. We were very stoned a lot of the time.
The bells in the intro came from a BBC sound archive disc. The original album version of Insomnia was nine minutes long. Radio 1 told us there was no hook and no chorus, so we did a ridiculous gig at the Jazz Cafe in London to let people know we existed, with 10 or 11 musicians on a tiny stage. The DJs Sasha and Paul Oakenfold were stuck outside and we had to throw their tickets out of the dressing room window so they could get in.
Then a guy called Bill Padley did a 7-inch edit and Radio 1 started playing it. We were very excited when it got to No 27, but it later proved so popular across Europe that Pete Tong campaigned for us to re-release it.
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