?new album

[nickw at blueyonder.co.uk (Nick Walters)]

I bumped into Gerard yesterday en route to Asdal in Bemmie to do my tragic 
single-bloke shopping.

Actually, he accosted me - I was walking along the road past the City Farm 
(yes, thinking about Tree Full of Starlings!) and I saw a bright yellow 
purse on the pavement. I picked it up and opened it but it was empty.

Then I sensed a... presence at my shoulder. I turned, and there was this 
fucking ruddy old FACE! at my shoulder wearing sunglasses and covered in 
white stubble. The face was on the front of an ovoid head which was atop a 
body clad entirely in black.

Who else could it possibly be but - Gerard!

We were both going to Asda to buy alcohol and lard so we walked together 
for a bit.

I found out that:

There are three - 3!!! - Aeroplane-related discscsss out soon:

1. The Art Objects re-release 
2. The Harvester thing
3. The New Album

1. The Art Objects re-release
This will be re-mastered and have extra tracksksks, as one would imagine. 
It seemed Gerard has warmed to this in recent years, as he agreed when I 
said it was a fucking excellent album crying out for a wider audience. The 
guy who took the album cover photo, Paul Graham, is apparently one of the 
UK's foremost "artist-photographers" now 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28photographer%29) according to 
Gerard. And Gerard found some old negatives down the back of his sofa, so 
the cool booklet that came with the album will now have some colour 
photos. Fab! Dunno when it's coming out though.

2. The Harvester thing
We know about this one. Didn't talk much about it except that I said it 
was a good (i.e. obscure) selection of covers. Out in May.

3. The New Album
Gerard talked at length about how this is being mixed on a PowerBook and 
in some studio somewhere and lost me a bit with his muso-speak. Also we 
were crossing Bemmie Parade at the time and almost got run over by a 
fucking bus (what a loss to the world it would have been!). He mentioned 
that they have a perfect pop-song for the album, "25 Different Kinds Of 
Love" which was played at Fiddlers (others may remember this; I was waaaay 
too pissed to remember anything of that night). So far only one song is 
completely complete, so God knows when the album is coming out. And Gerard 
laughed when I asked him what it was called.

By now we were in the Chav-tastic hellhole that is the Bemmie Asda. I 
recommended the new Fall album to him and he remarked that he went off on 
them during the early 90s when they went "all dance" (a common 
misconception). He loves early Fall and I assured him that the new album 
is as scuzzy and experimental as all good Fall should be and he said he 
would check it out.

We then went our seperate ways to purchase our bachelor chow and booze. 
Hey - perhaps that could be the title of the next album! Bachelor Chow and 
Booze. I'll be sure to mention it to Gerard next time he surprises me in 
the street.

Oh and his eyebrows have mutated in an alarming Dennis Healey stylee.

NW2








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