Number three.

Supercool is one of my own favourites, which is part of why I wanted to do it during these Belgium sessions. But the way it came together in the first place is a bit odd, even by my standards.

The original idea was kicking around for about ten years before I actually used it. It was just a guitar part, and honestly it was very close to the main guitar in 'Got To Prove Myself Today'. Close enough that I couldn't really use it again.

Then one day I started messing about with a bassline underneath that guitar part, and it felt good. Really good. Good enough that I realised the bass was the song now, not the guitar. So I took the original guitar part off completely and built the whole thing back up from the bassline instead.

There are guitars on Supercool, obviously. Two stereo heavy electric parts, a tremolo electric guitar and an acoustic, but none of them are that original part! One was written around the bass rather than the other way round. Which is a slightly odd way to make a record, but that’s the joy of creating – different every time!

That all happened sitting in Nash's studio up in Barnet - Brian Nash, the guitarist in Frankie Goes to Hollywood. We're talking about twenty years ago now. His Juno 106 ended up all over it, which was no hardship, because the Juno is my favourite keyboard. It just makes good sounds and it's easy to work with, which is about as much as I ask of anything.

The version that ended up on 'This Is Your Life' isn't what I recorded at Nasher's though. That session was where I worked it out, where the song actually became itself. The finished recording came later, in my old place in Southend.

As for what it's about, I'm not sure it's really about anything. I've always thought it sounded a bit like a James Bond theme. And the middle section (the bah bah bah bit) gets mentioned to me constantly, because people say it reminds them of the old Pearl and Dean cinema ad music. I'm entirely happy with that. If you're going to be compared to something, being compared to the thing that played before every film anyone of a certain age ever saw is not a bad result. Quite fitting, too, given my band name.

It also turned out to be one of the tracks that opened a few doors. Supercool ended up on a trailer for 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead', the Sidney Lumet film with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. Hearing your own music underneath something like that is a strange feeling the first time it happens.

One small confession about the Belgium video. Somewhere between Belgium and my hard drive, we lost most of the footage of the bass take. The audio survived, but most of the video didn't. That's why there's a chunk at the beginning in this video and just another chunk later, which, given that the bassline is basically the entire reason this song exists, feels like the universe having a little joke at my expense.

There's one more of these still to come, 'Rowboat Song', filmed the same way, but that one I did in my own studio. I'll post it here and let everyone on the mailing list know when it goes up.

Supercool is from 'This Is Your Life', my debut album, the same record 'Time Machine' comes from. As I said when I put that first video up, I've never really promoted that album enough. So many people find me through the free download of 'Teaser Trailer' and go on to buy that on CD or vinyl, which is brilliant, but plenty never go back for the debut.

So, same as last time. There's 33% off 'This Is Your Life' for the next 48 hours if you haven't got it.

And if you have, thank you, genuinely.