Recording CCJ

Pete Taylor, Chris Carlyle, Sam Chinnery, and Cammy Dobbie were 4 lads from Edinburgh who grew up together, were best friends and formed CCJ. In December 2007 Sam died tragically, which had a devastating effect on them and their year group. For months, they didn’t play, but eventually decided that playing was something they loved so much that they couldn’t stop.

The songs in these recordings are about Sam, his death and the months following. They are about the anger, sadness and pain of these days, and that however painful, ultimately life goes on.

As Sam said “writing songs is easy: you just write about things that happen to you.” When CCJ last came to the studio they were a reasonable schoolboy band, but this recording represents a dramatic step up both in playing ability and in the maturity of their song-writing.

I hope you enjoy these recordings.