Pure M Magazine ISSUE 5 | Page 15

to me, so I can’t really comment. (Albie) “Hold On”, I had literally no say over so didn't even have time to complain about the drums being off/electronic, but A. Clarke (1. Vocals/Songwriter) put it out anyway. It's his band, after all, and I wouldn't be typing this guff if it weren't for his relentless enthusiasm and expert song-writing. If it were up to me, I'd have just done some crappy sludge-rock cover of a Carpenters song, and that would never work. The A-side, LotLSA as we like to call it in The Biz, features the most excruciating 17 solid minutes of maracarecording I have ever done, as well as some wibbles and electro stuff. Very few actual drums were used in the recording, which depresses me less than it used to. (Alan) “The Loneliness Of The Lightspeed Astronaut”, although sounding nothing like early Bowie, was my half-baked at writing another tale of a lonely spaceman but really as a metaphor for the modern human experience which can be crushingly isolated for some folk… The natural follow-up to that song is called “The Return” which I’ve written but we’ve never actually recorded properly yet. In it the spaceman decides to turn around and race back home to earth but as he’s travelling so fast (at lightspeed no less) he falls victim to “time dilation” (wee bit of physics there) and when he gets back to earth hundreds of years have passed and everyone he loved is dead. Might include that one on the album if we need a cheerier number on there! The B-side “Hold On” was put together very quickly, recorded in an afternoon and stuck out with Lightspeed as an extra free track. Please hold no