RE: Wheres the new material

["Philip Hendry" <philip.hendry@bb...co.uk>]

Hey Ming,

Happy Christmas,

Perhaps someone should tell Gerard to approach Sanctury Records..they
have a great track record of signing up artists whom the majors believe
are well past their sell-by date - they have great distrubution and
acceptable marketing/support from what I can gather...I think the likes
of Edwyn Collins, Billy Bragg, Roddy Frame are on their rosta now if I'm
not mistaken.
There's been lots about how great the label is in the music press and a
couple of broadsheet articles that I've seen.....

Have a great Christmas everyone....and remember guys if you've got the
wrong pressie for the loved one ...'They say you hourt the one's you
love....but I don't think it's true'....finish the verse yourselves.....


See you at Shropshire...I'll be there even if the twins have arrived by
then !

Phil.
PS I haven't forgotten about the T-shirts...but a bit like new areos
material the wait is always longer than anticipated !

        -----Original Message-----
        From: blueplanes-admin@st...net
[mailto:blueplanes-admin@st...net] On Behalf Of Paul Vearncombe
        Sent: 22 December 2003 18:49
        To: blueplanes@st...net
        Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Wheres the new material


        Sorry chaps I'm catching up here...

        I had a chat to Gerard at his gig at the Cube where he was
promoting his self-released LIT album.  I thought he might want to go
the same sort of route for the BAs album but he said he was keen for a
wider release of that and was trying to get a distribution company
interested.  I can't claim to understand the machinations of publishers
but I believe Gerard was especially concerned about signing away the
rights to his work.  This was the case with some of the other albums, as
you will all remember from the "Let's Buy Swagger Appeal"!  So I should
imagine he's in a tricky spot, wanting to involve a major company to
distrubute the album but not to publish it, thereby allowing him to
retain the copyright.  Anyone shed any light on how it works?!

        Speaking of dates, I've just found an old flier from November
1996 which names such "new-recorded" songs as "Up In A Down World" and
"Barfly".  Of these, the first is supposed to be on the new album and
the second featured in the set at the Fiddlers.  So that's how old they
are then!

        Speaking of Cavaliers, I think it's mostly great.  I agree that
it's a weird package but I love the patchy and shambolic prog-folk of
the title track and the relentless Krautrocking "Roundheads".  It's just
the tracks in between that seem out of place.  I reckon it would have
been better to have put C & R on disc one and a better and wider
collection of b-sides on disc two - why not flesh it out with "Sweet
Jane", "Love Is", and other bits and pieces.  Why not call it FLP3?!

        Speaking of Angelo, I don't think anybody recognised him at the
gig. Has he regenerated?!

        PV2



        ----- Original Message -----

                From: edward gay <mailto:edwardgay@ho...com>
                To: blueplanes@st...net
                Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 5:39 PM
                Subject: [Blueplanes] Wheres the new material

                Following on from all your associated mail it confirms
the picture I have built up of an albums worth of material hitting the
proverbial buffers over a distribution deal,plus poor communication and
organisation.The website has been awful for a number of years.Thankfully
its now resurrected.Gerard first mentioned the new album in the liner
notes for Cavaliers.Further references were made to it when Gerard
appeared at the 12 Bar Club in London promoting Record Player in October
2001.He announced the band still had 2 tracks left to complete.When I
contacted Art Star in April 2002 they informed me that the album was
finished but that the band wanted a distribution deal to release the
record in the Uk and the USA and were therefore touting labels such as
East West.I even wrote a letter to the Aeroplanes at their contact
address in April 2001 enquiring why such a great band were now
stagnating in semi retirement.No response.I don! t know why bands put
contact details on their CDs only to not respond when interested parties
contact them. The Rough Guide to rock in 1996 described the band as
releasing a welter of back catalogue material
                and  presumed they were   defunct.Such a shame.I know
someone who saw the Planes at York University in 1992 and described the
gig as orgasmic.If only they could organise themselves play a few more
gigs,communicate with fans and release more materia we,d all be happy.My
other fave band the Mekons  have a great website and are enjoying more
popularity now 25 years into their career than they ever did at the
outset.All down to organisation and communication!

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