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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