Why did things go quiet in the Quench camp for so long?
Quench: There are a variety of reasons. The main reason is that we wanted to release something that was on a whole higher level, sonically, and not just make Afterglow part 2. We chose to record it ourselves so that we could have complete creative control including our own choice of producers. We chose Joe Gibb who had worked on records by Funeral For A Friend, Jane’s Addiction and 3 Colours Red. We’re disappointed that it took us so long, but the reality was that the four of us had such busy lives and we didn’t live in the same town, so everything from writing to rehearsing to planning took such a long time. Jamie also took some time out to write and record a worship album and Mark went to work in the USA for Josh Doyle, which slowed things down a little, but the truth is that we were suffering from the ‘where do we go from here?’ question. We’d released an album, toured the UK, played all the festivals, but when we asked what the next step was (Europe? USA? Secular scene?) there was
