auditioned new singers

Shortly after Banks and Rutherford decided to continue Genesis in 1996, they went to The Farm to start writing Calling All Stations . Rutherford initially found the sessions difficult as he saw Collins as “the guy in the middle” who made Banks and himself work better. Their best ideas developed in this period were put forward while they auditioned new singers, including Francis Dunnery and Nick Van Eede . The two main contenders, David Longdon (later of Big Big Train ) and Scottish singer Ray Wilson of Stiltskin , auditioned throughout 1996, which involved singing along to Genesis tracks with the lead vocals removed.