later, the band played a charity concert at Aston Villa's football stadium, Villa Park, in Birmingham before returning back to Montserrat. Upon their return to Montserrat, Duran Duran supporter Steve Sutherland of Melody Maker briefly visited the sessions to check on progress. According to Malins, the band played him eight new songs "in various states of disarray". Sutherland predicted "Union of the Snake" would be the first single, while opining that "['The Reflex'] is sharper and more brutal than anything they've recorded before." The writer was informed by Sadkin that the album was far from completion amidst the studio's technical problems. Sadkin had a hard time producing the record overall and later said he was surprised at how little material the band had. Australian sessions With tensions rising in Montserrat, Sadkin suggested a change of location to his home base at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, the Bahamas, but the members grew tired of being on "deserted islands"; according to John, Duran Duran were "now completely turned off the idea of 'getting away from it all'. We wanted to get to it." They settled in Sydney, Australia at the end of August 1983 as they felt their relationship with the country was special following their previous tours and commercial success there. There, Duran Duran recorded and mixed the rest of the album, now called Seven and the Ragged Tiger, at Studios 301 throughout September. The studio was inferior to AIR, but superior to the mobile studio in France; the producers found technical problems could be resolved easier. Phil Thornalley, Sadkin's personal engineer, assumed the role for these sessions. With the majority of the rhythm tracks cut, the band primarily used 301 to record lyrics, synthesiser and guitar overdubs, and Andy Hamilton's saxophone parts. Le Bon, suffering from writer's block, composed melody lines after listening back to the rhythm parts and wrote lyrics based on those later. Little later felt that he was the "least involved" and the "least active" of the five members. Meanwhile, Rhodes used a new Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer to help change the band's sound, as he wanted Seven to be a more "sophisticated pop album full of minutiae and multiple textures". Other band members also experimented during the sessions: John used a different technique for his bass playing, playing fewer notes as a way to "get more feel" out of the instrument; drummer Roger Taylor