09 Meh

We enjoyed using Hammond organ with Leslie Cabinet and 80's synth on this track about perennial Hendra favourite, Serendipity Garner.

08 Serendipity

Andrew's solo offering, sung about late-night ramblings with Ana. We'd talk about truth and beauty and listen to the KLF before getting one more cup of tea and cigarette...

07 A Goodnight Song

Craig David was big at the time (as you've probably noticed). This song is rubbish but is posted here for the Hendra purists (of whom there are many(possibly)).

06 We Love Everyone (in a Garage Styley)

A song about Princess Ana-Belina-Maria Teresa Hendra Snowdon-Clark. Written before she moved in as a kind of welcome, and having met her only once we wrote everything we knew about her in the lyrics. She has dark curly hair and she lives over *points to spare room* there.

05 Ana-Maria

Ana's in brackets because she already had a song. This song features many of the audio jokes from Hendra, from the talking Mallard to the local worship leader's new album about heartache and pain... When we ran out of jokes we used a crisp packet with as much reverb as possible.

04 Noami & Steve (and Ana)

Originally just a list of things from Hendra sitting room, this song developed into a list of things that perennial Hendra favourite Phil Yates had broken or destroyed in Hendra sitting room.

03 Things from the Sitting Room

A short idea based on a quip by Andy. Of course she was not always clean, and if you listen carefully in the fade-out you can hear the consolation "Hendra's a girl because she's relatively clean." Mostly Naomi worked hard to keep Hendra acceptably clean whilst the Andy's were writing songs and larking about in the sitting room.

02 Hendra's A Girl

The long-lost Hendra album! All these songs were written in our shared house, Hendra, during 2000-2001. Officially five people lived there, the Andys were students, Naomi, Steve and Ana-Maria all worked, but there were so many others who were part of the Hendra extended family, some of whom are mentioned in these songs. We'd never recorded an album before so it is as rough and ready as they come, but it retains much of it's communal charm and so is shared here in its entirety.

This first song was based on a two-chord sequence that we heard 5 teenagers busking in town. We found it funny that so many people were playing something so simple. As with all Hendra songs the choruses were pre-written and the verses were improvised. We finalised some verse lyrics in the studio just before recording. 

Featuring James Knight, AKA Jimmy Young on the jazz flute.

Hendra Album