>>127345291 (OP)>>127345315>While recording Isn’t Anything, Shields was “in an extremelack of sleep state” at the studio in Wales. “And it was out
there, that’s the only way I can describe it. I was having
experiences like real classic stuff from cheap UFO movies.
I’d be by myself in the studio, which was a barn away from
where everyone else was staying, and there in the middle of
nowhere in this barn trying to write lyrics, and one night I
couldn’t stay awake but I had to finish the lyrics, and then,
while falling asleep, I heard this huge roaring noise. And the
room was all bright and I was crawling across the floor,
desperately crawling under the desk trying to stay awake long
enough to finish these lyrics, while feeling completely
surrounded by the presence of things.”
“We found out later that the whole place is supposed to be
haunted, and all sorts of weird things had happened” Kevin
says. “The engineer wasn’t telling us that it was haunted.
That’s part of the policy of the studio, that you don’t tell the
clients it’s haunted because they start getting freaked out,
because weird things happen and because it’s in the middle of
nowhere and all that shit. And, also it’s near the military base,
so there were weird planes flying above all the time and
pulling sonic booms. My whole memory of making that
record was just this constant sense of presence, like it was a
mixture of angels and, funnily enough, cow ghosts, ghosts of
cows. I don’t know why, but I kept having this impression of
bloody animals and cows all the time—really big, weird faces
with big brown eyes. But not like aliens.
