Recording session in LA
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Very nice pictures and very exciting news to hear, I can't wait to hear the new stuff. Very good news and pictures to warm me up in the cold New York city.
Not sure it's New Order that is recording in LA. It might be only Tom and Phil. Rubberbear (joined by Phil Cunningham on stage) opened for Xander Smith (it's his twitter account) for the Blue Cat concert in September in Manchester and, for now, I cannot see the rest of the group anywhere..
Phil's an occasional member of the band Run Run Run, isn't he? So it is probably a Run Run Run recording session.
https://www.tonedeaf.com.au/412019/track-track-xander-smith-outside.htm
Los Angeles singer / songwriter / world traveller Xander Smith just released his second solo record, Outside (out now via Music Fix/ MGM). For this record the Run Run Run frontman has enlisted the help of some seriously impressive names, including Joy Division and New Order original members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Phil Cunningham.
Having released his debut solo effort Hey San Pedro in 2012, Smith began to tour as a solo artist, and thanks to his incredible fan support he’s been able to play shows almost worldwide, from UK to Siberia, Smith makes up his bands with musicians in each new town just like Chuck Berry has done for decades. To celebrate this true troubadour’s release he’s kindly given us a track by track run down of the album (written in third person).
Say Anything
In April 2013 New Order arrived in Southern California to play the Coachella Festival. On his day off, guitarist Phil Cunningham, a longtime friend and former bandmate of Xander Smith’s, stopped by to pick up Xander on a quick errand to a local guitar shop. Phil started to pick out the opening riff of what would be “Say Anything.”
On the spot Smith grabbed another acoustic and started adding chords and an easy melody. Most of the song was born that day. Soon enough the recording of this track would continue in different studios and almost every musician added some bit to it, including none other than Bernard Sumner who contributed his signature melodica, some backing vocals and mix notes. The song is about a long distance disconnect between lovers who can’t quite seem to make it work between Los Angeles and the little town of Stockport just outside Manchester, UK.
One of the weird things about NO is how unproductive they are as a unit but how much stuff they've done with other artistes. Light Years from Love...
Michael Monkhouse wrote: One of the weird things about NO is how unproductive they are as a unit but how much stuff they've done with other artistes. Light Years from Love...
i kind of like that though, in a way makes even Siren's Call seem legendary in terms of the "we may never get another one" kind of way even having only one album in the 90s was tolerable considering electronic and whatever else was happening outside the actual "n.o. camp"
I like it too, but I don't just mean the '''solo''' projects which have, like my tackle during Melanie C's 'Hits' DVD, been overly mass debated - I mean all the one-offs: Higher Than A Skyscraper, Shoot Speed / Kill Light, Blunts & Robots, Wish Upon A Dog Star, The Next Time, Didn't Know What Love Was, Out of Control, Dreamstalker, This Time I'm Not Wrong, Spanish Heart, Theme from Devil Hopping, Becoming the Wraith, Miracle Cure, True to Form, Wheels Across Indian Trails....
