 The whole reason why that album came to light is because of my mum's passing and what better way to capture that metaphorically than to put her ashes in the vinyl. We are all looking for a way to live longer. This ingenious idea gives your loved ones a way to remember you through sight, sound and touch after you're dead. I mean the whole process of the album was based around losing my mum. She was that album, that's why she was on the cover. So if you're going to do something interesting then make it special. It's a beautiful thing. We went everywhere looking for this fucking pressing plant. Our manager found someone doing it and now we're here, finally. And finally is a service we offer people for pressing the ashes of a loved one or their own into a vinyl record. Immediately it started getting attention, particularly from the media, to be able to move the air in a room sometime in the future is quite interesting to me. I'm in a five piece rock band from Bristol called Idols. Christine, my mum, full of light, a wonderful mother. My mum died and obviously at that point it was a devastation for me. She was my best friend and my mother. My mother worked seventeen hours, seven days a week. The best place to scare a torch. You need to have respect as well when you're putting human ashes in a record. It is very different to making a normal record which is much more of an industrial process. The audio is engraved into a lacquer. You have a metal stamper for an A side and a metal stamper for the B side and these are what are used to press the vinyl. It's at that stage that we add the ash. Thank you very much for bringing this all the way down. I really appreciate it. It means a lot. I love that. I love that it's so clear that you can see her in it. And this is magic. It's beautiful. She would have loved this. Everyone obviously will be different. That's so great. I love the way it almost looks scattered. People are a bit freaked out that this was a person. People are terrified of that physical link with death. It's not ignoring how important it is to appreciate life after death. What it does most I think is that it gives more people in a family or perhaps in a group of friends the chance to have something to keep from someone who mattered a lot to them. Decompartmentalising to grieve in a way where everything makes sense again and you can move on and be happy.