Written not long before we split up, It's Impossible was always a favourite at our gigs. 

It's Impossible

A nice driving song with some slightly risqué lyrics from Alf. General consesnsus was that the acoustic guitar on this track actually sweetened it up a bit too much. I'm inclined to agree, but what do you think?

Slap Bang

They say that everyone has one song inside them, and this one was mainly written by Martin who sat down with Graham one afternoon to pull it together.

Alicia

A lovely song this one - and a great crowd-pleaser. It started life orginally as one of my (Graham's) ideas, but Alf came up with a lovely melody and some great words.

Alf's voice is just superb on this - such emotion. Somewhere I've even got a mix of just the vocal track from Lonely Me.

Lonely Me

No, not the song by the Byrds - one of our own. Once again, this one started life as a few chords from Graham which then Alf added his special magic to. Always used to second in our set - just after It's Only Love.

Note the little nod to Shed Seven in the guitar figure right at the end.

Why?

One of Graham's songs from his previous band - Shnaffel, this one always ended up right at the start of the set whenever we played a gig. Alf tweaked the words slightly.

It's Only Love

Albedo (UK) (from L to R in main picture) Graham Armfield [https://soundcloud.com/graham-armfield] (Gtr), Alf Ellis (Vocals), Martin Robson (Drums) and Steve Williams (Bass).

Albedo were a guitar based rock/pop band based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK during the late 1990s - from January 1997 until June 1998 to be exact. The band was formed by Graham and Martin from Shnaffel (https://soundcloud.com/shnaffel), who had been joined by Alf after an advert in the Melody Maker - does anyone still do that?

After Steve joined on the bass, we used to gig around north Kent and in London - wherever we could play. We had a brief flirtation with a couple of independent record companies, but nothing ever came of it, which was a shame as we had another few good songs besides the ones on here.

All the tracks here were recorded at The Granary studio near Lamberhurst. Kent.

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