Three of the songs on The Full English had been released before, but were now re-recorded, "Carpet Tiles" and "Tell Me You Love Me" on Dome Of Discovery (1994), and "It's The Silence That Kills You" as part of the songstory Curly's Airships (2000).

Musically, the album is very diverse, incorporating Eastern European Gypsy-flavoured numbers, songs in the retro-rock tradition, narrative chansons, full-on café Tango, Reggae, and even Hip-Hop beats.

[3] Only when a considerable amount of recording had already been done, Marco Olivotto offered to mix and release the album, which was done at the Labour Of Love studio in Rovereto, Italy, in March 2005.

[3] The album was released 6 May 2005, the same day Van der Graaf Generator (a band co-founded by Judge Smith) did a reunion concert in the Royal Festival Hall in London.

In the afternoon of that day Judge Smith did one of his scarce live-performances, in the Cobden Club in London.