Huck and the Handsome Fee’s debut EP was recorded over two sessions in Spring and Summer of 2010. Eager not to waste any time in getting their tracks out there, and determined to capture the energy they’d generated in a breakneck run of shows, they opted to record the songs almost entirely live.
They enlisted the expertise of friend and multi-instrumentalist Martin Newton to oversee the sessions at his self-built Oxfordshire studio, where he engineered and produced the recordings. Having skilfully captured the Fee’s raw sound, he handed the audio over to the band’s own Matt Halliday, who mixed up a storm in a handful of late-night sessions. These mixes were then given to Matt’s Borderville bandmate Tom ‘Woody’ Woodhouse, whose mastering made the process complete.
From the savagery of Christine, to the poignancy of Jason, to the lunacy of Passion Man, Huck and the Handsome Fee’s debut EP is a theatre no audience will tire of soon.
