Why did the writing/recording process for Backlash Cop take so long?
Jamie: I don’t think it did. We toured Once Like A Spark like bastards for well over a year. Then we took some time off, which seemed like the right thing to do. That time off tuned into another year, we were working on songs on our own and then we came back together before Truck Festival in July 2006. We had about four songs finished then and played three of them at Truck. We recorded the record in December 2006, so it only took about six months to write and record the record… I don’t even know if my dates are right. I am not too sure. I am probably lying. Those three years went so fast. I guess it seemed a much bigger gap because there weren’t any JPL live shows to distract me. Andrew: It was nice to go away and reconsider what being in JPL meant – the longer you’re about touring as we did, the less opportunity you have to surprise people. Album #2, Once Like A Spark, was quite different to debut Zero For Conduct, and there’s another obvious progression between OLAS and the new album
