Recorded: Manorside, Abbey Wood

1 February / 8, 10, 11, March / 18 April / 15, 16 June / 7, 15, 18, 19 September / 10, 11 October 2000 3, 4, 5, 16 April 2001

Mark Tingley:

Lead vocal, Harmony vocals, Lead guitars, Rhythm guitars, Bass, Keyboard, Handclaps, "Drums"

One of the last out of the blocks and almost the last to be finished!

I imagined a chain gang singing "DOI" as a tale of woe with pick axes and shovels, with maybe Harry Belafonte on a black and white show from the '60's performing it!

I may have been influenced by Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher", it has the same feel. I wrote about having no girlfriend and no money, and took the heaviness off with tongue and cheek lines to make it fun (among my favourites on the entire album!).

This song is "I'm Crying"'s happier little brother. It showed I was finally coming to terms with my unhappy situation from the year before.

Producing the album had become a full time job. But the luxury of forsaking a "real job" had come at a price. I really did have no money. And any more girlfriends would have been too distracting at this point. I'd have to suffer for my art!

Listen closely and you can hear that I slowed my voice down at crucial moments to deliberately convey the misery and humour of the song! Listen too for one long droning note in the verses, an effect often used in TV documentaries for dramatic effect.

I wanted Paolo (see "Far Away") to play lead but he was off designing a bank in Munich, never to be seen again! But I'd long accepted Wilberforce weren't a real band but a studio project, a fate that had befallen my previous group Blob Hotel.