RE: ANOTHER album!!

["Nathaniel Mumford" <nathanielmumford@ho...com>]

cheers Chris. What's the band? More or less the live touring band? Or any 
other luminaries on board? 

> From: sharpy@he...freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:23:38 
> +0200> To: blueplanes@st...net> Subject: [Blueplanes] ANOTHER album!!> > 
> Hi everyone> > I just thought I'd post an update of what's going on 
> behind the  > scenes...> > The band are recording a brand new album of 
> brand new songs. Gerard  > is hoping to get it out early next year. This 
> will make it FOUR  > albums in 12 months!! (Swagger deluxe, Altitude, 
> Harvester and the  > new one).> > I have been recording all the 
> rehearsals since the harbourside gig.  > Gerard's theory is basically 
> this. When a band goes into a studio to  > record, they often find the 
> original recording of the first time the  > band played a new song has a 
> better vibe than the full quality studio  > recording. These recording 
> are usually done on a dictaphone or  > walkman for reference so the 
> quality make them un-useable. The idea  > is that I record the 
> rehearsals to a relatively good quality on my  > laptop so there is a 
> back-up of all the original versions of the new  > songs which are 
> recorded at a high enough quality to use on the album  > if the version 
> if a particular track can't be bettered in the studio.> > I've been 
> following the aeroplanes as a fan since a gig at the tropic  > club in 
> Stokes Croft back in 1985. To be involved on this level has  > been 
> fascinating. I can also honestly report that the new songs  > (which are 
> still vocal-less at this stage) sound fantastic. This is  > shaping up 
> to be the best Aeroplanes album for years. Gerard is  > determined to go 
> one better than Altitude and from what I've heard  > the new songs, 
> especially the rockier ones, are up there even with  > Swagger! As a 
> little nugget of info there is a fabulously titled song  > called "China 
> Brilliant Automotive" (apparently taken from the first  > Chinese 
> company to be registered on the New York stock exchange.. or  > 
> something) and it's a real rocker!> > On the web site front, we had a 
> meeting with some people who run the  > http://www.blueaeroplanes.co.uk/ 
> site. They are setting it up so that  > it is easy for Gerard to add 
> updates himself from home. He is  > planning to put up a video every 
> month and put alternative versions  > of older tracks up for download. I 
> was unaware that so many of the  > songs had videos made for them. I had 
> only seen Jacket Hangs  > and ...And Stones until last week. He showed 
> me the videos to about  > 15 other tracks. Some are from European TV 
> shows, one was from a gig  > at the Western Star Domino Club back in 
> 1984 (they looked SO young!),  > one was from The Old Grey Whistle Test 
> (I think it was "Arriving")  > and some were full-on video productions.> 
> > As for the domain names, and I think I remember this correctly though  
> > I'm not sure, Gerard said that EMI own blueaeroplans.com and  > 
> blueaeroplanes.co.uk but Gerard owns theblueaeroplane.co.uk> > One piece 
> of info I passed on a couple of months a go about possible  > gigs is 
> Oslo and Athens needs clarification. I was under the  > impression that 
> these were confirmed gigs but I got the wrong end of  > the stick. They 
> are both just gigs in the pipeline waiting for the  > band whenever they 
> want them. The new album is taking priority at the  > moment so they 
> will probably remain as just possible gigs until what  > I presume would 
> be the full tour to promote the new album next year  > (although I'm 
> just guessing here!)> > Abi, you can send your email to me at 
> chris@al...co.uk and I'll  > give it to Gerard when I'm back in Bristol 
> later this week.> > Also, Mark, did you manage to get hold of John 
> Langley? If not I can  > pass any message on to him at the same time.> > 
> So I'll post another update when there is a build up of enough new  > 
> stuff to talk about.> > Cheers> > Chris> > > 
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