Offbeat producing new Pat McGlynn Album

Started Pat McGlynn’s album on Thursday 21st August for BMG in Japan. The album is due for release in November. Pat’s been busy recording demos for the past while and has amassed a bunch of great new tracks. His partner and singer Janine Andrews will be singing lead vocals on the album. Pat is a great Bass Player and Guitarist and was a star in Japan before and after he joined the Rollers. He also wrote songs for Sonya back in the 90’s.

I met Pat in 1984 after recording my Zed album when I recorded and co-wrote tracks with him and Les McKeown and Eric Faulkner for a Bay City Rollers revival album. We spent a Summer at Wilf Smarties Planet Studios in Broughton St, Edinburgh. Wilf was the producer who discovered Wet Wet Wet and produced their demo ‘Wishing I Was Lucky’, the single that broke the band.

The tracks were never released following a spectacular break up (also a kind of revival) but the songs were eventually signed to Stiff Music in 1985. After that I recorded and co-wrote another series of songs with Les and Pat at Palladium Studios with engineer/producer Jon Turner with Jons ex wife Ann Turner on backing vocals.

Pats new deal in Japan sees the release of two albums he recorded in the late 70’s as well as the new album. A band will be formed to tour in Japan following the release of this album.