The LIVE ALBUM we’re going to release on the 22nd of October is receiving positive comments and reviews from people who have had a listen to it. Most of my friends and fellow musicians come to me and say it’s weird for a band at our level to release a live album. It makes business sense to me. A band like ours at this stage is unlikely to sell 3 million copies of their debut album. We’ve got a relatively small following but these people are really into our music. Therefore we need to be able to offer them more products if we want to make money. The idea is “a wide range of products to sell to a niche market”. Haha, you should see me with my big cigar in my mouth…don’t get me wrong, i’ve always hated economics and I have never studied business. I have spent the last ten years of my life playing music everyday hoping that one day people will listen to me. That’s the only thing I genuinely care about, writing and playing music, but in order to achieve that in a sustainable way, I need to put on my businessman suit from time to time.
From an artistic point of view, releasing a LIVE ALBUM makes perfect sense too. “There Was A Night Before There Was A Day” was released almost a year ago and i feel like it’s time to release new songs. What’s the point of keeping all these tracks on my hard drive? The Live album will include three previously unreleased songs (Winter Song, I Wanted To Be Alone and Birth Sex Death). Last but not least I wanted to show people what the band sound like in its raw form. How did we record the album? We just got on stage and played. The guitars, the drums, the bass, the vocals: there is no editing or dubbing, this is what we sound like when we play a gig. Yes, the sound could be crisper, yes it’s a bit rough at times. But my hope with this album is to show you people who we are in a very sincere way.
Anyway…it looks like the people who have previewed the album like it a lot and this is what one reviewer had to say:
“They have reaffirmed rock as undoubtedly my favourite style of music. Even listening to them now I want more and my only wish is that I could pick up the album now so I can listen to it wherever I go.”
If you haven’t bought our debut album yet and you happen to be lucky enough to live in Belgium, you can now buy it from one of the country’s leading newpapers
Le Soir is Belgium’s biggest quality French speaking newspaper. The equivalent of the guardian if you like. They have decided to put our CD on sale on their website. Cool, isn’t it?
