Greater than God
The Untouched and Loveblind records were a real high point for Secret Shine. We went from selling hundreds of records to thousands, and most of the reviews were good, better than good even. So when you’re in this position you build on it. No, we went back to University to study for our final year. What a lot of good that did us!.
1994 – Having completely lost any impetus gained by the success of the album and single Jamie and Scott finished finals and put down demos for what would become the ‘Greater than God’ EP (Sarah 89). Matt and Clare offered to release this as 10 inch vinyl and CD. To those who still have a soft spot for vinyl, a 10 inch is an offer you can’t refuse.
With the formality of University now out of the way we started rehearsing a bit more and we finally convinced Nick not to play drums any more. He was a great guitar player but we had too many guitarists already so he played the bass instead. It wasn1t our intention to generate our drums from a small electronic box but it just sounded so good and we didn1t have to lug a bit kit around everywhere.
We headed back to PIJ to work with Corin again on Greater than God. Listening back, this our most accomplished work and seemed to be more widely popular than anything we’d done before. The sound was really near to what we always wanted. The final song on the EP ‘Last Words’ was never supposed to have that drum track on it. Also, Jamie spent ages mastering this EP so the songs would merge in interesting ways (a bit like Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints) but Matt and Clare sent the wrong version off to be pressed.
Gutted!