In The Shed was not the second song Pierre and I wrote together - indeed plenty of other songs had been written and are in production as we speak - but it was the song that best accompanied the melodrama of Hourglass Café. Unlike Hourglass Café the meaning is fairly obvious and I hope little introduction is required other than that the events depicted are not autobiographical in any sense.

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The song is just another break up song. You've heard them before. I've heard them before. I've even heard songs which discuss infidelity and cheating within the home and one's surrounding area before. Is the song entirely bromidic and unoriginal then?

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I would say no - well duh of course I would - but I would hope you might too because of the blends of sounds and styles in the song itself. It started out, as many of the best songs do, with a riff supplied in this case by Pierre. I heard it and said "I could write a lyric for that" and so I did. A simple enough affair given the music genius of PCB which is what I shall be calling Pierre Catherine-Buffet from now on rather than PolyChlorinated Biphenyl the environmental toxin or Printed Circuit Board though I have no doubt if required Pierre could easily pollute the oceans or personally direct electrons through your device without breaking a sweat.

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The song's verses started very differently to how they are now heard on the track which explains the strange and somewhat non-rhythmic quality with which they are sung but it was a good choice. I feel it's much easier to portray emotion when singing when given the freedom to mess around a little bit with the rhythm because, at the end of the day, we don't really have much of a rhythm when talking let alone screaming at a treachurous lover.

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The song has tinged of electronic pop, classical dance, punky angst, and somewhat reminds me of We Are Number One from Lazytown if it were about cheaters and heart thieves rather than about evil baddies who only mean to do you harm. Food for thought eh?