Re: First impressions...

["Nick White" <magichats@ya...co.uk>]

The Aeroplanes are on the Dream Ticket show on BBC Radio 6 from 10pm 
tonight.  Live recording from Glastonbury 1992 and Gerard chatting live in 
the studio.  Don't know exactly when, but it should be available on the 
internet afterwards.  Steve T - any chance of working your technical magic 
on the audio stream for us again....?
NW1or2

PS.  I quite like "Open"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathaniel Mumford" <nathanielmumford@ho...com>
To: <blueplanes@st...net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 6:12 PM
Subject: [Blueplanes] First impressions...


> I'm old-fashioned, & rushed down the shops for my copy at the first 
> opportunity.
> And i like it, i think..
>
> The first shock is that there is no rodney solo spotlight; in fact, he's 
> hardly on there at all if you look at the credits, maybe lending credence 
> to rumours of a bit of a to-do between them? Especially given that his 
> putative solo album has never seen the light, it seems a bit odd that not 
> even one solo effort has made it onto this album.
> Nor is there a credit for Wojtek, which must be another first. Although 
> he's been looking after the kids for a good few years now, in fairness.
> But once you get past these shockettes, and if you can pass over its 
> relative brevity - 10 songs - i think it might be a sound addition to the 
> canon. It's no vintage rocking aeroplanes record; there are very few big 
> tunes to which one might bare one's chest in the Borderline's moshpit. 
> Only Up in a Down World, Surreal Thing, Raise the Roof and possibly Bright 
> Star Catalogue get above mid-tempo, and there's certainly no And Stones or 
> suchlike to get the blood really flowing.
> But nor is there an 'Open' or similar misdemeanour, which can only be a 
> good thing. And at the production is significantly improved on the 
> shed-at-the-end-of-the-garden lo-fi of 'Record Player'.
> What it does seem to consist of is a clutch of more plangent, downbeat, 
> mood pieces, where the vocals wash into and out of focus. He seems to be 
> increasingly reflective and less declamatory - and adulthood is an 
> explicit statement to this effect. Tree full of starlings, Hexanal, star 
> below & multinational, plus the bookends, all seem to derive much more 
> from the more impressionistic music of 'Cavaliers' than from the classic 
> rock riff/verse/chorus/big production major label albums, but i get the 
> distinct impression that this is the direction he's heading these days, 
> and that this is maybe no bad thing.
> I don't know whether Richard Bell is still on this list, but either way - 
> 'Beautiful Is' is the easy favourite so far. though anything with angelo 
> on runs it close.
> The only other thing it makes me wonder is - and maybe lisa can tell us - 
> whether there are more songs written/recorded, or whether that's it for 
> another five or six years? Given that at least a couple of the songs on 
> there date from the early nineties, does he have a wardrobe full of newer 
> things to unleash on us...?
> This should keep us going for a little while, though.
>
> nat
>
>
> > From: <peter@in...co.uk>
> > Reply-To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List <blueplanes@st...net>
> > To: "The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List" <blueplanes@st...net>
> > Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Altitude advert
> > Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:29:53 +0100
> >
> > got altitude delivered to me this am - already ripped to me pc so dont 
> > panic.
> > first listen is good and think it will be a grower too
> > .
> > tree full of starlings is luverley - but it so reminds me of the 
> > wateryboys
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: gordon
> >   To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List
> >   Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:22 PM
> >   Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Altitude advert
> >
> >
> >     Somebody put up a site here a little while back, showing the Altitude 
> > cover.
> >     I took it for granted as a work of Ann Sheldon, but apparently not.
> >     In any case, it's Classic Blue Aeroplanes.
> >     Pity EMI couldn't stretch to a vinyl release.
> >
> >     T.Rex
> >       ----- Original Message -----
> >       From: Lisa Ash
> >       To: The Blue Aeroplanes Mailing List
> >       Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 2:15 AM
> >       Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Altitude advert
> >
> >
> >       The cover for Altitude was taken from a painting by one of Gerard's 
> > friends. He liked the way the plane is exactly at right angles/follows 
> > the lines of the streets. EMI thoguht it was cool too and it reminded all 
> > of us in the meeting of a similar, very famous photo... I DID find out 
> > what that was but Ive forgotten again now! (Imagine it as a photo and in 
> > black and white and THATS the photo Im thinking of!)
> >       No 911 references, I think G has only just got the artwork for, it 
> > as his mate was still finishing it when the EMI deal was signed...
> >       Sommin like that anyway! I can't quite remember now, but this is 
> > the kinda thing that I want to put on the MySpace site. :) Little bits of 
> > trivia-ry info like this.
> >       blueaeroplanes.com will be live by the time Altitude comes out - 
> > they better get a wriggle on tho eh?! I think it's gonna be more of a 
> > 'chat about the albums' site rather than any kind of detailed and 
> > specific BA's place. Hence (again!) my ideas for MySpace.
> >       We really DO need a proper 'place' for all this stuff. ...and Pete, 
> > I will email you re: your offer! Thank you! :)
> >       Lis
> >       x
> >
> >
> >       On 2 Apr 2006, at 01:11, Nick White wrote:
> >
> >       There's a big, well-placed advert in yesterday's Guardian guide. 
> > Well done EMI.  Shame about the bizarrely inserted apostrophe in 
> > Aeroplanes, though, and who decided to quote the 7/10 in NME? - I thought 
> > that was quite a low rating.
> >       The cover seems to be of a plane flying low over Manhattan - note 
> > the distinctive Chrysler building behind the title line.  A deliberate 
> > September 11 reference, a composite city, an old painting, or of no 
> > significance at all?  You decide....
> >       Yours controversially,
> >
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