"Think we've finally got the right combination of songs, and running order new album. Katie came over today to help finalise it all.

To MeluaWorld fans: a bit disappointing to read negative stuff when we give you info, like this won't after all be a "covers" album.

...after all. We tried lots of different covers (at great expense) and maybe we picked wrong, or I arrange wrong but they didn't seem right..., and all the time we were trying to get the tone just right, (romantic, intimate, hopefully musically "credible") and that took thought.

...so now we are very happy with an album that is about half "low profile" covers and about half originals, - not unlike earlier albums

...but Katie and I are hugely proud of this new album and we hope you will see that sometimes you have to slow down to get it right." /Mike Batt/