It was the first time had heard about Russell. I was like aaaaaaahhhhh, this is amazing!!!! I rushed home (leaving Raf with the English breakfast on the table) to dust my Zoom recorder. I spent the rest of the weekend recording violin riffs and something resembling a song - named Super Jam - came out.
You might never hear Super Jam. It's jammed up at the back of my hard drive, next to lots and lots of shitty little sentimental nonsense that I felt at some stage in my life.
Nonetheless, I discovered something really important that weekend.... you only need two things in order to write songs: Time and a heavy heart, and then, I had both...
The name, Yushimi, came out few months later after lots and lots of violin riffs and 'Super Jam' - type songs. I was looking for a place called The Cat and Cucumber, a 'greasy spoon' near Tower Bridge (Ignacio Aguilo, my bandmate and self-appointed musical mentor, had just named a tune we recorded together as The Cat & the Cucumber) when I came across a place called You me he she. I liked the name so much I started repeating it in my head... like I do ... a lot....
I said to myself (again, as I always do), 'I am You she me, a threesome in one'. Yousheme was then misspelled by my friend Lupe in an email. Since then it became Yushimi. It's got a Japanese sound in it. Like me ... quarter Japanese, innit?
You might never hear Super Jam. It's jammed up at the back of my hard drive, next to lots and lots of shitty little sentimental nonsense that I felt at some stage in my life.
Nonetheless, I discovered something really important that weekend.... you only need two things in order to write songs: Time and a heavy heart, and then, I had both...
The name, Yushimi, came out few months later after lots and lots of violin riffs and 'Super Jam' - type songs. I was looking for a place called The Cat and Cucumber, a 'greasy spoon' near Tower Bridge (Ignacio Aguilo, my bandmate and self-appointed musical mentor, had just named a tune we recorded together as The Cat & the Cucumber) when I came across a place called You me he she. I liked the name so much I started repeating it in my head... like I do ... a lot....
I said to myself (again, as I always do), 'I am You she me, a threesome in one'. Yousheme was then misspelled by my friend Lupe in an email. Since then it became Yushimi. It's got a Japanese sound in it. Like me ... quarter Japanese, innit?
