Behind Closed Doors

In November 2021, Big Big Train vocalist David Longdon was nearing the end of recording his second solo album, Door One, when he died unexpectedly. His friends, family and colleagues fulfilled his final wishes to finish and release the record posthumously and it’s become a fitting epitaph to the talented singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. We look back on the creation of one of 2022’s finest albums.

Grant Moon

By May 2021 David Longdon’s second solo album was coming together nicely. “The first sessions went well,” Longdon enthused to this writer at the time. “It buoyed me up. One of the songs is a rocker called Watch It Burn, which is up-tempo and heavy in places. Another one’s called There’s No Ghost Like An Old Ghost and, again, it’s a much darker thing. It’s not like Big Big Train, not ‘optimistic, we can get through this’, you know? It’s more realistic, more me I suppose, as a solo album should be. It’s more reflective of my personal tastes. It’s embryonic at the moment but it’s moving along the way.” Theo Travis had just sent him the smokey sax parts for There’s No Ghost Like An Old Ghost and Longdon…

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