Hey there everybody,
Hope you are all well. I must admit I'm not surprised at you guys having a bit of a cob on what goes on the site - or more accurately, what is not going on the site...I cannot disagree with anything you are saying but for now, you'll just have to make do with me...
Right now we are working on some songs with Grant Mitchell, our resident co-producer. These songs have been written in the last wee while. We decided that we were not going to go to a residential studio this time, partly because of the cost, but mainly due to everyone's availability, or lack of it. Honestly, to get us together these days in the same room at the same time is a struggle. We can be as frustrated as you guys sometimes, but summer always has that knack of enticing people on holidays, etc...
The working title of the album is POP FICTION and I'll give you more details and titles on the individual songs a little bit later.
I'm excited about these tracks and feel that these are the best songs we have written since the last century! I am gonna say that though, but I genuinely believe it.
They all have a 60's theme running through 'em as well as a Beatles influence from The White Album period. I love that album and I'm surprised that it comes in for so much flak (only by the critics, of course). We know they were all having their problems working together, but we all have problems.
Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Julia, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Cry Baby Cry..... if that's a band having problems.....!
Some say it should have been a single, instead of a double album, but I disagree. I wouldn’t change any of it, even the Stockhausen-fused Revolution 9, love it, self indulgent, arrogant, but totally engrossing, for me anyway.
So, yeah, we might do a double album, totally alienating everyone who listens, with a Stockhausen-influenced, atonal album with no musical instruments used, only household appliances and industrial implements, but with auto-tune! Now there's an idea :-)
We are also now wondering about the best way to get new material out into the public domain, do we:
1. As convention would dictate, release an album on cd, through high street retailers (if there's any left!)
2. Digitally release them only - through the website, and the likes of iTunes, etc
3. Or is there another way of re-inventing the wheel that perhaps you can tell us about
Any ideas, I look forward to hearing them.
Graeme xxx