?new album

[paul_vearncombe at hotmail.com (Paul Vearncombe)]

Good post, Mr W!

Mind the thumb, though.

PV2


>From: "Nick Walters" <nickw at blueyonder.co.uk>
>Reply-To: A Discussion list for The Blue 
>Aeroplanes<blueplanes at blueaeroplanes.org>
>To: "A Discussion list for The Blue Aeroplanes" 
><blueplanes at blueaeroplanes.org>
>Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] ?new album
>Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:06:32 +0100
>
>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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