The new single by King Creosote (aka Kenny Anderson, Fence Records supremo and brother of Gordon Anderson) has been given a helping hand by members of the Beta Band. John Maclean directed the video which you can watch below via Youtube, and Steve Mason lent his production duties:
On 27th April 2009, Domino will release Coast on By, the first single taken from King Creosotes new album, Flick The Vs (released on 20th April 2009).
King Creosote explains here how the song came about:
“It’s all well and good when a pal offers to work on and record one of your songs, but when that pal is Steve Mason (Beta Band, King Biscuit Time, Black Affair) then up goes the ante. With album Flick the Vs well under way, and with no sign yet of a contender for the 3 minute pop hit thereon, I arrived chez Mason clutching a string of uneven verses each spitting out some facet of the tour-tired “leave me alone to my small village” blues. There followed 3 happy accidents:
- During the run thru’ Steve muttered “is that it?” in such a tone of voice that, in fear of ridicule, I ad-libbed a positive sounding one line mantra to the end of take one.
- Whilst I made the tea, Steve “lost” my original guitar take and mistook my ad-libbed mantra for “the hook”.
- A bungled cut n paste somehow morphed a duff bridge into a blinding chorus – three times?!
And that’s it – the precise art of song craft lies in the choice of “Coast On By” over the more accurate title “two grumpy old men realise that, together, they’ve created the very monster both have spent entire careers baiting, only for it to sneak up and bite them in unbridled joy”.
UP TO THE MINUTE
So, my manager told me to write something here and let everyone know whats going on. This is whats going on–
I’m still in the studio. Working on about 12-15 new tracks. Though i am still writing new songs. I have been down to London and spent a few days with Richard X at his studio. We worked on a couple of my demo’s and the results are promising. A little hard to describe here, but he is trying to drag me from obscureness into the light. It might work, i have some amazing songs, its just a matter of staying the right side of the dark side. I;m going back in the studio with Richard in Febuary.
I WILL be playing this year, as KBT. No more cancel’s. Its on. Trying to put the KBT touring band back together, Pete Rankin ( OJR ) is back on board but C-Swing is on about giving up music. I will do my best to persuade him not too. What a waste that would be. I have a new bass player who i am sure most of you will have heard of, so the bottom end is locked down tight.
I will be posting more studio bits on YouTube as and when i feel like it. A new one soon though.
I think thats all she wrote.
la la later
steve
"I have a new bass player who i am sure most of you will have heard of" … that part sounds particularly interesting :) It wouldn’t happen to be a bassist who’s played in a couple of rather large bands would it? …hmmm
I’ve removed the message board from the site as it was getting bombarded with spam. It wasn’t getting used very much anyway, so I don’t know if it’s worth putting it back online? Maybe if I can find a decent alternative to phpbb…
