Editing First and Last and Always (section)

===Demo sessions===
After intense songwriting sessions, Gary Marx entered Parkside Studios, "a tiny studio in a rehearsal complex off Armley Road where I'd been with Wayne to record some new demos with him singing." The recordings were engineered by Steve Allen.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ghostdance.co.uk/discography/diaries.php?id=river |title=Ghost Dance Discography : Recording Diaries (River of No Return) |website=GhostDance.co.uk |access-date=6 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207002353/http://www.ghostdance.co.uk/discography/diaries.php?id=river |archive-date=7 February 2009}}</ref> Eldritch was enthusiastic about the new material, and played some instrumental demos to ''[[Melody Maker]]'' journalist [[Adam Sweeting]]: "I think this stuff's gonna be incredible, like nothing we've ever done before".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |author-link=Adam Sweeting |year=1984 |title=Ballad of a Thin Man |magazine=[[Melody Maker]] |url=http://www.ultimatesistersguide.org/images/mag/ballad_of_a_thin_man.jpg |type=JPEG |access-date=9 March 2013}}</ref>