Hey, hi, ho followers of le Bang. Hope this Friday finds you spiffingly well?
Here be yet another blog packed full of vitamins, minerals and other health-giving goodness for you. A bit like a pint of Guinness.
The new album, what with it being a rock opera about ‘love, death and mental illness’ is taking more time than we thought but hey….perfection takes time doesn’t it? A bit like a pint of Guinness.
The songs we’ve recorded so far are dark and stormy but with a hopeful, yearning, frothy white top. A bit like a….you get the idea. Guinness, if you’d like to get in touch re sponsorship….we’re open to offers.
A quick list off the top of my head of things that are inspiring the writing and recording of the new album.
Hugely under-rated 90s TV show American Gothic
The writing of Martin Amis
Electro shock therapy & Victorian asylums
Strange dreams about a parallel 1930′s Asia
Twin Peaks (always)
Iceland (the country, not the Kerry Katona endorsed shop)
Manga
Serial killers
Guinness (come on…get in touch…)
The writings of JG Ballard
Reverb
Pan’s Labrynth
Unfulfilled human potential
The feeling that something isn’t quite right
Hugely under-rated 90s TV show Eerie Indiana
Weird medical practices from bygone days. Bloodletting, lobotomies, leeches….y’know the score…
The Wicker Man (not the Nicholas Cage one…Christ no…)
The writings of Cormac McCarthy
The end of the world
Laugh-a-minute stuff eh? Actually, the music itself is probably chirpier than ‘Beginning. Middle. End.’ (well, some of it…) – I’ve always liked the juxtaposition of lyrics full of melancholy and despair set to jaunty pop tunes. Basically, there’s a linear (sort of…) story and a recurring group of characters that thread through all of our new music…it’s more like an unfinshed soundtrack to an unwritten movie. I’ll stop rabbiting on and post some vids here eh?
First up – ‘This Will All Be Gone Tomorrow’
Next, I found the ‘effects’ button on Photo Booth….’Never to be Seen Again’
And finally, lets finish with a cover of one of my favourite ever songs shall we? I’m unsure as to why I’m sporting this Russian style hat teamed with a cowboy shirt. It seemed suitable.
nb I’m seeing Bjork at Iceland Airwaves on my birthday this year. I am more excited about this than is good for me.
Ta ta for now lovers.
xx
