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