Insider

about this album

This is a definitive History of Insider as written by Sel Balamir of Amplifier. "Insider is the 2nd Amplifier album. It was written Summer 2005, and recorded Autumn 2005. Recording / work on the album took place with the help of Steve Lyon at Jacobs Studios in Surrey, England, in October - November, before further overdubbing took place at Miloco Studios in London November - December. Finally the album was finished at the Amplifier room in Machester over Dec 2005 - Feb 2006. The record was mixed by Chris Sheldon in March/April 2006 at Eden Studios, London and mastered by Kevin Metcalf in April 2006 When you're in a band with a record deal, if you're lucky/unlucky enough, you'll come up against "The difficult second album" scenario. Basically, this goes as follows: You've had all the time in the world to get your first artistically succesfull album together, and then basked in all the wonderfull and ball cupping praise that accompanied it. You've toured your arse off and basically had a great time doing all the stuff that you've always wanted to do. One day you get a phone call. It's your A&R representative. They tell you that the label really needs another album immediately in order to capitalise on all the good press and exposure that your band has been receiving. The only problem is that you don't have any new material because you've just spent the last 18 months promoting the previous album and there hasn't been a long enough period to do even some laund

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