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Re: Art Star(s)

  • Subject: Re: Art Star(s)
  • From: "Simon Williams" <Simon.T.Williams@bt...com>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 14:26:07 -0700
Paul,

Gerard recorded a batch of songs around a couple of years ago with various
people including his brother John and Angelo Brushini.  These included 'Up
in a Down World', 'Art Star' and a version of, would you believe it,
'Paper Plane' by Status Quo with really heavy guitar from Angelo.  The
other songs are probably also from this period although I confess I can't
remember titles - maybe if I heard them again.

Anyway having lived with these for a while Gerard decided that they
weren't quite what he wanted for a record so he wrote and recorded more
stuff over the period including Cavaliers and its companion piece
Roundheads.

Sorry its a bit vague on specifics but I hope this clarifies things a bit.

Regards

Simon Williams

----- Original Message -----
  From: Paul Vearncombe
  To: Blue Aeroplanes
  Sent: 06 February 2000 16:02
  Subject: Art Star(s)


  I just stumbled on an old "Blue Aeroplanes Information Service" release
which proclaims "as hinted at the end of last year, the new album is to be
called 'ART STARS' and it's finally completed."  There's no date on this
thing, but it's been lying in a drawer for at least two years.  I wonder
how long this record has been in the can.  I was more interested in the
songs it names, some of which I had forgotten about:

  Bright Star Catalogue (played at recent gigs)
  Surreal Thing (ditto)
  Birthday Suit 'n' Badge (ditto, I think)
  Spiky Young Iconoclast (?)
  Beautiful Is (?)
  Up In A Down World (whatever happened to that?  New version on the new
album?)
  Had It All, Lost It, Got It Back, Gave It Away, Now I Want It Again But
It's Gone! (surely not)

  So, anyway, given the length of time which has passed, I wonder whether
the track list will have changed at all.  And what will the album now be
called?  Why not "Art Stars"?  And when did Gerard write the song "Art
Star"?  Seems recent.  Will it be on the album, if the rest of it was
recorded over two years ago?

  So many questions....

  PV