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The financial aspect, such as it is, is of little or no consequence to the band itself and any revenue received is channelled back into projects such as this bio and to try to bring Pagan Altar from 1982 to the present day. The one thing that is of prime importance to the band though, is the reaction and loyalty of the fans, which to them is priceless. After what has gone before this experience is extremely gratifying and to receive E-Mails from fans all over the world some of which have been around for twenty years is certainly a new and unique experience to a band that thought no one gave a shit! The constant demand from fans for more Pagan Altar material inspired the aforementioned aborted attempt to resurrect the old recordings. The result of this failure and the arguments that ensued as to whether or not they were of a suitable standard to distribute ended with someone’s car wearing most of the tape! These slight altercations at 3am one morning have now been resolved, much to the relief of the neighbours, and has instigated plan ‘B’ which entails going into the studio and rerecording the albums more or less the same as the originals.

Most of the basic guide tracks have already been laid down for the ‘Lords of Hypocrisy’ album and apart from a few hiccups and memory lapses leading to disagreements as to ‘what went where’ it seems to be moving along fairly well, at least up to this moment in time!
The drums have been a problem though, as usual, John Mizrahi couldn’t be found (what a surprise) probably propping up a wall in a back street somewhere in Soho where he spent a lot of his time! A similar replacement was required ASAP and I did consider offering my services but as I haven’t played for years allied to the fact that one so called music reporter had once insinuated in print that I couldn’t hit two tin cans in a straight line (the Bitch, I’m sure I hit three once!) I though better of it!
Mark Elliott had then been tracked down and seemed prepared to commit himself for once but that was short lived and wasted a considerable amount of valuable time. As was the case before, to get him to get off his arse and actually put himself out to do something was a major achievement, so he was let back out to graze. Brian Cobbold, A drummer from the latter part of the bands existence appeared out of the Ethos to take up pole position and that’s how the line up now stands. His style of playing is somewhat different to Johns, very Neil Peart, whereas Mark is noticeably very Jon Bonham.