I'd never intended to write an album. I'd never had that idea in my mind. But one day I was messing around with ideas I'd developed over the years, in my usual way that was never quite serious enough to lay down a full song. But this time it was different. It's 5.30am, I'm tired. I need sleep and a thought comes into my head. 'I hope I don't die in my sleep tonight because I don't want to lose this and more than anything else I just want to keep going with this tomorrow.'

And it's then that I know that I need to get this work down. Record it.

Two years later it's finished. It's mixed in styles-I wrote what felt right. Sometimes a song writes itself due to circumstance. And sometimes a song is forced due to circumstance.

'China Girl' I check into a b&b in a remote place to get some ideas together. To keep the noise down for my neighbours, I played and sung more quietly than usual-no falsetto, no strumming unlike my previous songs. China Girl developed and became the quietest song on the album.

'Tubes of Red Pain' I'd had the tune written for a couple of months already but I couldn't find lyrics to marry it with. Life took a turn for two people closest to me and the song was made.

Harper Ash is Ashley Harper-Little plus a little help. 'No Identity' is the debut album and the second is on it's way.

Tubes of Red Pain