We began writing for desolate shores in 1998, during the In Utopia period. Cold February, Haven, Someone to love are among some of the first songs we ever wrote. This album is the definition of the phrase “too many chefs’s in the kitchen”

It began as a synth-pop album that gave us Perfect world, which didn’t make the album, Let it flow, believe in love and a lot of the tracks on the expanded edition that were also cut from the album.

Then Polydor got involved and wanted a more Irish sound, more acoustic. This baffled us as Let it flow had just done so well and was listener voted song of the year.

The rest of the album recording session was a mish-mash of musicians coming into the studio in Boogiepark and replacing synth parts with guitars, live bass and live drums. We wrote some middle of the road pop songs to fit into the framework we were now working under Polydor. My world, running on Empty, In your eyes and you will never know are clear examples of this.

Creatively this was a great time, we started writing songs outside of the synthpop genre we had been so used to. The first song written for this album was “Haven” back in 1998. It would be 3 labels later and 2005 before it actually gets released and wildly different to how we planned it. It is a muddled album, fractured with too many inconsistencies. That being said, We love it again. After many years of feeling like it was a friend we fell out with, it’s good to catch up.