April 26, 1998 | Delores | Link to Here
Shuffle the Pieces on New Album
The Beautiful South's brass section is in flux, even as the band finally gets off their stools and down to the studio to do "a spot of recording."
Three of the band's faithful bags of air will not be featured on the album. Sax player Kevin Brown and former trumpet player Tony Robinson are currently working with "Dr. John and Spiritualized", and have NOT been requested to work on the new TBS album, while Gaz Birtles the second sax player is currently managing a band from Leicester and looks unlikely to be in the studio.
April 14, 1998 | Delores | Link to Here
Album Delayed Until Band "Gets off of fat arses"
(Hull) Following up on the saucing and bingeing previously reported, Richard, Alex, and Laura tirelessly pursued the trail of new TBS tunes all the way to Sean Welch's house.
The new album, whose whereabouts were discerned last week in a Dave R. grilling session at The Grafton by our men on the spot, Alex Ott and Richard, has set the Internet abuzz with rumors of TBS having started recording Today, April 14th.
Whilst our trio of adventurers were lazing at Sean Welch's place, Welch let slip that the first single wouldn't be out until October, just as we had feared.
Miss Jack seemed faintly frenzied as she hurled epithets at Sean, encouraging the band to "Get off your fat arses." Needless to say her sentiments are reflected by the LFW at large.
While our barbarian was being shown to the door by Granny Welch, Sean apparently mentioned that despite TBS' "laziness & unorganized nature" they did love touring the New World, but that they're just too cheap to keep paying for new airline tickets when they sleep thru their flights.
That said, their 3 month US tour wouldn't kick off until March 1999.
In order to fund the debauchery, the band has agreed to issue 6 copies of the exact same single, only differing in that band members alternate singing football chants in the background of the title track "Now that's what I call un-bootable."
In order to avoid the problems of past US concerts, TBS has agreed to appoint "wranglers" in each major city whose job it would be to kick them out of bed and onto their bus each morning.
Volunteers may apply thru their web site.
(Editors Note: Some of the info provided above by Sean was directly contradicted by Dave R., you just have to guess which, since Dave looked so nackered that Alex didn't even recognize him until Dave said: "Oy, groupie, get us a pint")
Stay tuned ...
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