Fastway is recording a new album with Toby Jepson !

Back In August 2010 after failing to put the 2007 Fastway line up together for some summer shows, Eddie approached Toby Jepson about recording the material they had written in 2008 for a Fastway album which never reached the studio due to circumstances beyond their control. Eddie set about the task of digging out the demos from 2008 and started sending them to Toby. As they were uncovered they both quickly realised that not only was the material sounding great but they had enough for an album. So they set about organizing the project.

Toby had played the bass on the demos and done an amazing job so why not use him on the album.... sorted. Toby had been producing the Virgin Mary's earlier in the summer so Eddie suggested he took the helm at the proposed recording session. Toby also had a good relationship with a drummer called Matt Eldridge and suggested he drummed on the session. Eddie agreed to give him a try and took Toby's word that Matt was the man for the job. He was not dissapointed. Of course the next thing on the agenda was rehearsals. Matt hailed from Portsmouth so they decided to do rehearsals down there.

So all was set for an interesting couple of weeks to see if the material could be made to work in a live situation. All went better than expected, everyone got on great and the music was starting to really make sense. In Eddies words; "We were steaming". Time to book the studio. Toby had been working at a place Eddie knew very well from the old days, The Chapel in Lincolnshire. Well it was perfect. Eddie had fond memories of the studio and the people who ran it and Toby had just been working there with the Mary's. It was perfect!

Toby also had a great relationship with the engineer Ewan Davies who Eddie says "has x-ray hearing!" The studio was booked for two weeks at the end of September. The guys arrived, set up and had a day's rehearsal and then got down to making a red hot album. The good thing about Chapel, Eddie recalls, is "the fact you are there 24/7 so you eat sleep and shit the recording."

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