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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interview by Dave Simpson

‘After one gig, someone stole my car with my dole money in it’: Morcheeba on how they made The Sea

Morcheeba in 1998, from left, Ross Godfrey, Skye Edwards and Paul Godfrey.
Evocative … Morcheeba in 1998, from left, Ross Godfrey, Skye Edwards and Paul Godfrey. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images

Ross Godfrey, songwriter, guitars, keyboards, electronics

We’d made our first album and were waiting for it to come out. But we wanted to carry on writing more stuff while we were in the mood. I even cut Christmas dinner short at my uncle’s in Brixton, London, so we could get back to the studio. We would work until we passed out, then I’d sleep underneath the mixing desk with my head in the bass drum, as that’s where the pillow was.

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