This was my big shot to crack the global music scene.
One day in 2012, out of the blue, Decca Records sent me and my mate Ed a record contract.
We ummed and ahhed. They brought in a TV star to be the producer, who told us we needed to crack the ‘Passive Massive’ - people who buy CDs in Tesco. But they needed us to sing a whole new repertoire - Waly Waly, Greensleeves, Blow the Wind Southerly etc. And the TV star producer explained that we needed to make a record that his mother in law would like.
This was a step too far. We didn’t know his mother in law, and weren’t too bothered by her tastes.
So we told them this, and the contract remained unsigned.
I still don’t know if this was the wisest move I ever made, or the silliest erro I’m not sure what kind of a person I’d be with fame. I don’t think I would have handled it very well. So it goes.
