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Hahaha… we could put cameras all over the tour bus and stream 24/7. It would be very very very boring though 🙂
Hello Liz,
Thankyou for listening. There a lot of songs. Hopefully you manage to come and see a show when we tour next. Hope so.
I saw them twice on their tour. They played better than they ever played. Liam’s voice was back in tip top shape. I’ll check out the film down the line.
We have 2 cats. Goose and Huey. They are lovely cat brothers. While I was away a family of 5 raccoons have taken over the back yard. We had a family of Opossums before that. Opossums have moved on, possibly because of the Raccoons.
Saying all of that, I don’t miss b sides. When we released our first singles, the practise was to make 2 CDs same a side, different b sides. This meant for every single you had to produce a further 4-6 songs. We did a lot of covers because it was simply impossible to keep up with the demand. We loved doing covers as b sides. Loved listening to a song and taking it apart. It reminded me of the practise in old times of going to the art museum and studying masterpieces, seeing how the paintings were built up, glazes, under drawing… anyways I don’t miss the b-sides much but we still enjoy doing covers.
All done. It ended up being 19 syllables. Took a minute.
There definitely is something about holding something in your hand that will give you music. Involving the listeners touch and vision on the lead up to hearing a song is possibly overlooked. I enjoyed going to the record shop and buying the single or album, sitting on the bus, with it on my knee with my forearms laying on top and my fingers clasped over the edge of the album shaped plastic bag on my lap, thinking about the music that would be inside, what the inner art work would look like, thinking about what the band are looking like/what are they wearing this time, then getting home and putting on the kettle, cup of tea, then take it out the bag and cut or in my case rip the cellophane off and slip out the sleeve and see the inner art work, give the record a smell, and it smells like new books or just new and plasticky, then put the record on and listen. The senses were more engaged before everything went digital. It’s a pity but it’s not the be all and end all. I’m glad that gigs are still a similar experience. And buying merch at a show or getting it through the mail is still similar. If a song is still great, all the other stuff around it was the wrapping. That said, I’m glad I got the steamy bus window on a rainy evening with record on lap then cups of tea ceremony.
Yes.
Hey Grace.
You’re welcome. Cheers for the book .
Fran
When I stub my toe.
Once we reach 20 people then we can see what’s out there to watch. The more the merrier. There are a lot of films. While Almost Fashionable is the greatest movie ever made, I think there are some others we could choose from.
That’s nice Walker. Thanks.
Neither are easy or hard. Writing songs is like trying to get a bird to land in your hand without bait.
My brain just melted.
Clay