The 'Recollected' booklet sadly didn't contain space for the coveted interview with D V Adams, Hood father and archivist. Here it is re-produced for your reading pleasure. Questions by David J Hemingway.       In my imagination, you spent much of Chris and Richard's childhood lugging gear to gigs in the back of a Volvo.  Is this true? I acted as driver/ roadie on occasions when they failed to hire transport. I remember a gig in Camden when someone  asked Richard who  the old bloke they had with them was!! They also borrowed our car as a last  resort on a number of  occasions Are you musical yourselves? I have always been and remain a music fan and have a substantial collection on vinyl and CDs. Aged 66 now and still have not moved into easy listening. Do you have a sense of how you might have influenced Hood, in any way?  Musically, morally? a) Music was always being played in our house when they were young. b)  I took them to see REM with support by The Blues Aeroplanes at the City Hall, Newcastle in 1988 and that was the start of their desires to form a band. c)  Insisted they listen to some decent music!!   ie Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies. Have Hood ever written a song about their parents? Not aware of any songs about us, which is not to say there aren't any. You had better ask them. Do Hood sound like the environment in which they grew up? Their music on much of their earlier stuff and  in particular on Rural Houses Forlorn Valleys and Cycles of Days and Seasons is  much influenced by  our love of  the countryside and living in close proximity to it. Have you ever suggested "Lads, isn't it time you got proper jobs?" They have never caused us any problems financially or otherwise.  

Todays's good news is that 'Recollected' is now at Domino HQ and is shipping as we speak although some lucky overseas customers may have already received theirs as an early batch were let loose last week. We apologise for any slight delay, entirely due to the band faffing with the final artwork way up to the ultimate, ultimate deadline. We thank you for purchasing the box and very much hope you enjoy it.

Excerpt from the 32 page booklet with "Recollected", featuring essays by Chris Adams, Richard Adams, John Clyde Evans, Andrew Johnson,  Odd Nosdam, David Hemingway and Scott Heim. Pre-Order "Whilst my peers were partying, “finding themselves” and generally having the time of their lives, I was whiling away the precious summer between 6^th form and University working at a balloon warehouse.  Every day my walkman (noise reduction off, bass boost on, chrome tape function used as required) would repeatedly play to me the sketches which would become “Rustic Houses”. I’d take the scenic route to the industrial estate listening away in the hope that the inspiration would come. Before I knew it we’d been whisked away to Bristol to flesh out our half baked ideas. In Bristol I felt everything really coming together. I remember sitting on the step outside the studio hearing everyone clattering away and proclaiming loudly to no-one,  “we’re the goddamn Velvet Underground”. I’d failed to twig at such a young age that Lou Reed probably didn’t have the added responsibility of having to send a crate of novelty balloons to a village fete first thing on Monday morning." .....continued..........

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