Recorded over an 18 months in an empty warehouse and a haunted convent SEMAPHORE was the first self produced record for Sleepless - released in 2009. Brothers Matthew and Damian Jolly and childhood friend Matthew Dempsey wrote, played and recorded the tracks using the usual machinery (guitars, bass, keys, drums and vocals) along with some laptop trickery (crickets, typewriters, alarms, sirens, harmonicas and harpsichords) The songs on Semaphore hint at murder, heartbreak and obsession but are mostly about the contradictions of love and the difficulties of keeping the right girl ...