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Burdened By The Weight Of My Own Self Importance is The Grim’s difficult third album. Not that any of them are easy (in a listening sense).

For this one, I started to think about what I wanted to achieve musically. Could I make a coherent album that people might want to listen to more than once? Or, indeed, listen to at all?

Quite a responsibility, some might say. Or a burden perhaps. But only if I thought I was in any way ‘important’.

(Listening back to it now, so many years later, it sounds rather mechanical. There’s some nice ideas in there, but a lack of organic growth. Very much like my raised beds).

The front cover of Burdened is a picture of Kingswear Castle on the Dart estuary. It was built at the end of the 15th century as a defence installation to protect Dartmouth from suspected dastardly French invasions. It’s now owned by the Landmark Trust, and is available as a holiday let. My brother (that’s him, manning the parapets) booked a weekend for our birthdays, and what a lovely time we all had, as you can tell by the party action on the back cover.