The Point is a side project by Neil Leyton and Nicke
Andersson. The two were introduced to each other at
Stockholm's Acetone studio by studio owner Micke 'Rip'
Borg (who has recorded Death Breath, The Solution,
Neil Leyton, Diamond Dogs and countless others) while
Leyton was working on his "Betrayal of the Self" album.
Andersson (along with Dregen from Backyard Babies)
had booked a couple of days in the same studio for the
recording of a tribute to a Swedish singer songwriter.
They ended up also playing the solo on Leyton's
"Hyperventilating", and Micke Borg kept in touch.
Now, you have to know Micke RIP Borg to truly
appreciate this, but two years later he phones up Leyton
from his studio in Stockholm and says, "You know, I
been thinking, you and Nicke really should do a cover of
The Jook's Aggravation Place, hmmmm? What do you
think?"

"O sure," Leyton replied on the phone from London. But who the hell are The Jook, he thought. So,
to the rescue comes Fading Ways' resident rock n roll encyclopaedia, Mikko Jokela, director of
Fading Ways Finland. "He immediately searched through his collection and found precisely the
song, as he always does.", Leyton tells.

The sessions that ensued at Acetone yielded not just The Jook cover, but, perhaps not surprisingly,
two original, written on the spot gems by Andersson/Leyton; the arrangements came easily
enough out of some musical ideas Nicke had, and while he tracked them on drums with Micke on
rhythm guitar and Bjorken on bass, Leyton worked the tape machine and scribbled down lyrics –
some inspired by local experiences in Stockholm, others by chats with American soldiers at a
Heathrow airport bar on the way to Saudi Arabia - and hummed melodies that he then proceeded
to record as soon as there was a take – and it didn't take long! - everything came together
spontaneously.

No hard labour, no politics, no jive, just friends making music in an old analogue studio. That, my
friends, is The Point.