Chas Castell

I knew I was going to need a day or so to make a dent in all the extra writing I had to do for the album. On my list was

- Division Industrial Complex (the whole song needed to…

We laid down scratch vocals, guitar and drums for the last few songs (that were written) of the album, including probably my favourite song to play of them all, called Love Is All.

This song has been through so many…

4 more songs recorded as scratch demos for the drummer. That’s 8 songs.

It was getting clear from all the songs that I wanted to record that 

a) we were going to do a 12+ song album

b) I had…

That morning I’d had a great songwriting session with my friend Alan Roy Scott, who helped me get inside what was missing from one of the first songs I wrote for the album, and kind of started this whole socially…

Ok so I had been playing with a few new ideas for the song that I wanted to be about Ukraine since the last session, which I played to Dre. I had a really nice melodic part and a discordant…

I’m doing it. I’m starting one of the most enjoyable things I’ll ever do. Making an album with an amazing producer and friend about all the things I’ve wanted to sing about for years and years.

I haven’t seen Dre…

It’s December, 2023. There’s going to be an election in the US next year. Oh dear god. Another 11 months of seeing the news media try desperately to make us be on edge so we’ll click on more and more…

Can you believe it?

I'm so incredibly excited.

This is my diary of the making of the - as of yet untitled - 2024 album.

It's inspired by Ed O'Brien's diary of the making of Ok Computer, which is…

OFFICIAL RELEASE!!

Last year I recorded a Christmas song and made a video to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has worked so hard over the last few years to make the world a better place, under such…