The first track on Streets of Glass is only street noise with some slide guitar. What’s happening here?
The title track “Streets of Glass” (track two) is about Wellington, New Zealand and is a dark song about the sell-out of public assets to big business. This was done despite considerable public protest. Mike got the idea for the song whilst talking about this to Irish singer-songwriter Eugene Brosnan (A distant relative of Mike’s) when they were both touring in Germany in 1997. Track one is intended as an introduction to the title track. For this they recorded some ambient street sounds from Wellington to which was added some atmospheric slide guitar.
