Discography.
Studio Albums .. with Guys insight
The House of Love - The German Album (1987/88)
This is a collection of singles and B-sides (which we always took pride in not being throwaway tracks). Blind, Plastic, Loneliness Is A Gun and Nothing to Me are prime examples.
Andrea Heukamp featured heavily on this album before leaving the band as we started recording the first studio album, although she did sing on Christine. Her singing on The Hill is just sublime.
The House of Love (1988) - Creation
Still very proud of this record, after all these years. Christine, Love In A Car, Man to Child are absolutely brilliant songs and although we had a limited budget to make the record, we managed to get it to burn. I made the album with a patch over my right eye after my baby daughter Cydney scratched my eyeball with her finger. Luckily the studio was over the road from Moorfields Eye Hospital!
The House of Love (1990) - Fontana - The Butterfly Album
That difficult second album! Two years in the making after signing to Fontana, including a six week stint at Abbey Road’s Studio 2 of which most of the recordings were discarded!
We then spent six weeks with Stephen Hague at Ad Vision and those recordings were also discarded! We finally connected with Dave Meeghan who produced the majority of the record, plus a couple of Tim Palmer productions (Shine On and Never) to the relief of everyone involved. At Ad Vision, Wet Wet Wet were also recording and Marti Pellow mistook me for the gopher and asked me to make him a cuppa. I told him to F off, which was quite brave of me considering he is a very hard Glaswegian.
A Spy in The House of Love (1990)
Although a compilation this is a pretty good album, including some Abbey Road rejects, such as Marble and Baby Teen, plus Safe, which we recorded earlier in 1988 with Daniel Miller. This was due to be the next Creation single, but shelved when we signed to Fontana.
The cover features my English Bull Terrier Sly (RIP) who positively enjoyed posing for the camera.
Babe Rainbow (1992)
Hugely underrated album including my all-time favourite HOL track, The Girl With The Loneliest Eyes. This should have been a Top 5 hit, but the record company Phonogram decided to punish me for refusing to allow it to be formatted (the previous single The Beatles and The Stones came out on 13 formats without my permission), so they made sure the record wasn’t stocked by 80% of the chart return shops, hence no chart placing despite selling 18,000 copies in the first week. This completely killed the album and the band. Well done to the goons at Phonogram, you know who you are...
This was recorded at Pete Townsend’s studio on the Thames, where on a happier note, my wife Suzie and I celebrated our wedding.
Audience With The Mind (1993)
A very disappointing anti-climatic end to the band’s career. I spent the whole time in a depressed stoned stupor. Although not properly realised, there are some great songs such as All Night Long, Call Me, Sweet Anatomy (written with Pete).
We split up before it came out.
Lazy, Soft and Slow – Guy Chadwick Solo Album (1998)
Produced by Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins, this is an album I am very proud of which I made at a very difficult time after the split of the band. I feel it is hugely underrated and still sounds seriously good. I bumped into Robin in Lima, Peru, a few years ago at a gig we were both doing and he still was still raving about it. It has some real gems on it . Mirrored In My Mind is one of the best songs I think I have ever written.
Days Run Away (2005)
Terry and I got together again and made up our differences. Genuinely has its moments. My favourite being It’s A Kinda Love with some lovely slide guitar by Terry. The title comes from a poem by Charles Bukowski, the legendary hellraiser and writer of the anarchic Post Office. Check out a very obscure (lo res ) video on You Tube called Wraparounds which is an early version of Kit Carter. We don’t have a better copy of the film sadly.
She Paints Words in Red (2013)
Hemingway, She Paints, Trouble In Mind and Lost in the blues are standout tracks on this, again underrated album. As with Days Run Away recorded at Pat Collier’s Studio in Forest Hill. PKR is one of my all time favourite songs which I played live at The London Social and Bourges solo gigs and and on the virtual ‘Stay Safe’ session, and intend to re-record as this version doesn’t quite hit the mark for me, although I know a lot of fans disagree.