?new album

[philip.hendry at bbc.co.uk (Philip Hendry)]

Fab post...me thinks the next album should be called Lard & Alcohol.....

PH1 

-----Original Message-----
From: blueplanes-bounces at blueaeroplanes.org
[mailto:blueplanes-bounces at blueaeroplanes.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Vearncombe
Sent: 25 March 2007 18:21
To: blueplanes at blueaeroplanes.org
Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] ?new album

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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