The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 100 Birth

It was meant to be a home-birth.

1984 and Michelle was pregnant – we moved into the top floor of this huge old warehouse space on Wakefield Street that was impossible to heat.

They were strange days – the Spines was on hold while Wendy and Ross went off to other bands for a time and I recorded Act Your Age almost like a solo album and wrote the first draf…