The decision was either 10 tracks or 11 tracks and we thought 10 would be fine as we didn't want to start repeating ourselves, also we wanted to start getting a bit more ambitious with the sound, production and overlays within the band. In hindsight 10 is a bit short especially as some of the tracks are on the wrong side of 3 minutes, but hey, listen to the content and it is worth the sacrifice, it's quality over quantity as they say.

Carpe Diem which is Latin for Sieze the Day or taking chances, or go with your instincts etc, well, whatever it means to you, this album is a reflection of the times when we should have done all of those things but didn't,and of the times when we did and made the right choices with no regrets either, which  incidentally is the title of the 11th track which we did not record this time round as wee decided to save it for the fourth album (if we ever get round to it) as the third had already been written and tracks decided upon.

The album cover is by kind permission from David Eustace from a picture called "Hopeless Romantic" which I thought was very apt for this second offering by the Boys, and the album graphics and design was done by James Wilson, an up and coming Illustrator from Bristol who specializes mostly in Heavy Metal album covers and who also played electric guitar in "Watching Over You".

The songs have been influenced from a variety of sources including "Four Weddings and a Funeral" which triggered "At Last", "Dangerous Love" has a line in it from a movie starring Jack Nicholson who said at the end "How much reality can you take in one day" go on, see if you can spot the film title in this write up, and "If I lost My Mobile" was from a piece of research by Vodaphone into texting habits and discovering the frightening fact that more and more people rely on their phones to have a relationship than ever before, is it true that Phil Collins dumped his wife by texting her?, I dunno, but thats the rumour. "Dancing on Air" was a result of watching a young couple at a wedding trying not to get too close but failing miserably under the watchful eye of said girl's fella, almost blood in the champers that night.

Dave got ambitous with extra percussion, trying out the vibra slap which we can't do live as he only has one pair of hands, saying that he can play the ukelele and the drums at the same time (Wait for album number four) so I don't know what his excuse is, also using a small snare drum reinforcing the bongo's, Keith decided to recording his electric guitar and surprised us all at his style and clean attack and Colin worked out different harmony lines, needless to say there was a loot of music left on the cutting room floor but what we were left with made it all worthwhile, just cost a lot more money, but hey, you can't do this when you are dead.

So the difference between "Songs From The Heart " and  Carpe Diem is the different harmony lines and overlays, we used a different approach to the production, Beatski Studio has upgraded recording software, we learnt quite a bit from our first sojourn into digital studio techniques and we discovered that Keith is not only a fine Bass player but also a mean Electric guitarist as well and gave us some lovely twiddly bits on a few tracks,and thats as good as it gets really.I suppose it's the next step in the big story for those of you who have been following the songs from our humble beginnings as a band to where we are now.

"The Meeting" which is the first track on Carpe Diem is about bumping into an old flame and trying to figure out where it went wrong and what would have happened if it hadn't, it can leave you with a bit of a funny feeling and you are not necessarily very comfortable with it, "Carpe Diem as a track is the chance of freedom and an escape to a life that is better than the one you have now, when the window opens run for it, go for it and sieze the moment, maybe we don't do enough of that.

"Watching over you" is a song that spiritually connects two people who are a distance apart, but contains huge optimism that the love will endure no matter what, this song features James Wilson on electric guitar at the end of the song and Keith doing his first Bass guitar solo.

"At Last" is the flash bang wallop described in Four Weddings and a Funeral, some poeple have drawn a comparison with Nina Simones "At Last" if you play them back to back they are miles apart except the jazz style of playing, this song has already been covered by a few performing artists and has already appeared on one album, and along with other tracks, has also been played on local and national Radio as well as a few digital stations in Holland, Norway and Italy and in the U.S.A so thank you to those guys.

Have you spotted the film title yet?