In Mid 1997 we contaced Greg Arnold - songwrite and frontman of Aussie Acoustic pop/flok band \"Things of Stone and Wood\" and sent hime a copy of our first album (under the Piping Hot moniker call \"No Regrets\" with a view to him producing our next album. He got back to us with some enthusiasm for the project. Not long after we started meeting with Greg to start the gruelling process of song selection, rehearsal and arrangement. This was all pretty new to us as our first album had been a farely haphazard affair, ala \"...right then whose got a tune/song - that\'ll do then\" - not much rehearsal or weeding out wnet into it. After a few months both Greg and the band felt we had some good material to work with (13 tracks). We hit atlantis studios in Melbourne and things went pretty smoothly. By the end of the sessions two tracks had been weeded out and one extra one included that was written in the studio (blinding rain). The process involved relaying a story I\'d heard about David Bowie cutting up words from newspapers and magazines and writing a song with them. John and Dave liked this idea and immediately set to work writing a song.