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One Sunday afternoon, Davies brings his reel-to-reel recorder to Naylor’s Farm and Jets of Air tape themselves during rehearsal. ‘Pete and I had to carry it up the track to the farm, and then up the barn stairs to our HQ.’

Tracks recorded include cover versions of the Beatles’ ‘Back in the USSR’, Roxy Music’s ‘Editions of You’ and ‘Re-make/Remodel’, Velvet Underground’s ‘White Light/White Heat’ and several Bowie numbers: ‘Hang on to Yourself’, ‘Jean Jeanie’, ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’, ‘Queen Bitch’ and ‘Suffragette City’. Using his twelve-string acoustic guitar fitted with a pickup, they also record two of McNeish’s own compositions: ‘Telephone Operator’ and ‘I Just Can’t Live’. McNeish suggests they record another track called ‘Paradise’, but they don’t. Instead, this track finds its way onto their third album A Different Kind of Tension.

During a break between numbers, McNeish offers a few lines from ‘Yesterday Night’, the first song he ever wrote.