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Oct
2001 |
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from simon at www.simonraymonde.com
The fruits of my labour on the new Czars
album will soon be available to all, as the album 'The Ugly People vs
The Beautiful People' will be released on October 8th. Produced by me
and my long-time partner Giles Hall, the record is probably the record I
am most proud of, in terms of production values. Recorded out in Denver
in March and mixed back home at Guthrie's 'Violet' studio in St.
Margarets, it was a tough record to finish as we had some immeasurable
problems with computers crashing and erasing files willy-nilly, but we
got there. Some incredible musicians conbtributed to this record,
notably the phenomenal Ron Miles on trumpet, and Glenn Taylor on pedal
steel. A real privilege to watch these people at work. Rather
incredibly, I was contacted last month by the organisers of a Tim Buckey
tribute evening, who wanted to tempt me out of my exile to perform at
the Royal Fsetival Hall. Foolishly I agreed, and then had huge pangs of
fear that prompted me to renege on the idea. Well anyway, I stuck with
it, and together with my pal Paul from Tram (jetset), we hastily
rehearsed the song 'Once I Was', and one of Tram's songs,' Now We Can
Get On With Our Own Lives', and together with some other cool artists,
like Embrace, Badly
Drawn Boy, Eddi Reader, Shusheela Raman, Jane
Siberry etc, took the stage on Sept 25th. Armed with a piano, an
acoustic guitar and 2 mics, the stage seemed awful big, and the audience
awful quiet-(those seated posh venues quite a contrast to what we are
normally used to in London), but we acquitted ourselves fairly
admirably, in other words, we didn't fuck it up too badly, and enjoyed
the evening enormously. It could have been a bit self-indlugent and
self-congratulatory( is that a word?), but it was a lovely atmosphere,
and not all over-irreverent.(is that a word?) It was filmed by the BBC
and will be shown at some future date."
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