Do-it-yourself the key for Wreckless Eric's re-recorded album

If at first you don’t succeed... file it away somewhere safe so you can come back to it later - you never know when it might come in handy.

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From Squeeze's 50-year-old rock opera, to the Beach Boys' legendary 'lost album' Smile, there are plenty of cases for revisiting old material.

When Eric Goulden released an album entitled A Roomful Of Monkeys in 1985 under the name Captains Of Industry, it was a disaster - where it wasn’t roundly ignored it was critically slated.

"That album has always been a regret to me because I think these songs mark my coming of age as a songwriter, but not, alas, as a recording artist," says its creator.