OPEN
THE
BOXES.
Not everything in an archive needs a finished story.
Sometimes the artefact is enough to begin with.
This isn't the tidy version.
Handwritten lyrics sit beside studio paperwork. Release artwork sits beside screenshots. Photographs remember things their subjects had forgotten. Some objects already have stories; others are still waiting for theirs.
The archive preserves the difference between what is known, what is remembered and what still needs explaining.
HANDWRITTEN
Lyrics, drafts, crossings-out and pages that were never intended to become exhibits.
Sweet London River
Written beside the Thames as a possible Poems on the Underground submission.
Has Anyone Seen My Son?
A surviving handwritten lyric sheet, complete with date and final punchline.
Force of Habbit
Working lyrics, performance instructions and corrections preserved on the page.
Honey Tree
Early handwritten words survive alongside the later released versions.
PAGES
The lyric pile
Splashdown, Hunted by Dreams, Nightshift, Diesel Train, Woman Come Again and other surviving sheets still being catalogued.
STUDIO &
RECORDING
The paperwork behind the sound.
War is Over
8-track information and equipment notes from the Music City sessions.
Music City
The studio on Paul's road where a sleeping child, lost MIDI settings and a quick equipment test became part of a song's history.
Soundcheck
Started as a software test in a loft. It eventually became a released single and a UK EDM platform-chart number one.
LIVE
Stages, collaborators and moments that happened once.
Across the Stage
Two photographs accidentally form their own shot and reverse-shot.
GANG
MUSICA
Monsieur Jacques
A surviving performance photograph points toward another part of the archive still to be unpacked.
ARCHIVE
Stages & rooms
Not every performance has yet found its date, venue or full story.
RELEASES
Artwork, remasters, remixes and evidence of what happened after the music left the room.
Honey Tree
One song, multiple lives: original release, radio-edit remaster and Amruze DnB remix.
We Bring You Over
Recovered artwork, lyrics and surviving release history.
Number 1 on Number 1
The surviving screenshot puts Soundcheck at #1 in NumberOneMusic's UK EDM chart.
PEOPLE &
PLACES
The archive is also a map of who was there and where things happened.
Amruze at the Controls
From keyboards and cameras to Lemon Fresh, Amruze and the Honey Tree remix.
I'm Better Now
A holiday photograph becomes homemade CD artwork — with a deliberately sarcastic title.
The Guitar That Came Back
A sold guitar returned for a gig and changed considerably more than the set list.
THE DEEP
ARCHIVE.
Unfinished songs. Unidentified rooms. Old web pages. Photographs whose stories haven't been told yet. Handwriting that needs deciphering. Things that looked insignificant until another artefact made them important.
NOT EVERYTHING
HAS TO BE SOLVED.