Uuden Blaze Bayley studioalbumin lähtölaskenta on alkanut, nimittäin 1.2.2010 julkaistaan "The Man Who Would Not Die" levyn seuraaja, joka on saanut nimekseen Promise And Terror. Varsin mielenkiintoisen julkaisun tästä tekee pelkästään jo se tosiasia, että tämä on toinen julkaisu samalla kokoonpanolla, edellisen kerran näin voidaan sanoa tapahtuneen vuoden 2002 Tenth Dimensionilla, jolla siis vielä soitti ehkä se kaikista legendaarisin kokoonpano. Saa nähdä minkälaista kehitystä nyt tapahtuu, kun tämä kokoonpano on toista kertaa studion uumenissa tuottaja Jason Edwardsin kanssa, kaverihan on siis tuttu monelle jo Wolfsbanesista.
Julkaistaan1.2.2010
Kokoonpano :
Laulu - BLAZE BAYLEY
Kitarat - NICK BERMUDEZ
Kitara - JAY WALSH
Basso - DAVE BERMUDEZ
Rummut - LAWRENCE PATERSON
Ennakkotilaukseen levyn voi pistää 1.12. lähtien, ennakkotilaajien levyihin bändi sutaisee nimmarit. Tilauksen voi tehdä luonnollisesti Blazen nettistoresta.
Loistava uutinen ja levy tulee todennäköisesti laitettua ennakkotilaukseen. Pitänee vielä ensin ottaa tuo toistaiseksi uusin levy eli The Man Who Would Not Die haltuun, kun en sitä ole vieläkään ehtinyt hankkia vaikka kolme ensimmäistä sooloa hyllystä löytyvätkin. Kuitenkin odotukset ovat korkealla ja ne täyttyvätkin mikäli taso pysyy edellisten levyjen vertaisena.
Mie olen ymmärtänyt, että promot ovat hyvinkin pian jo liikkeellä, eli maailman ristorivakat pääsevät tsekkaamaan netistä varmasti joulukuun alkuun mennessä. Fanipablolta toiselle
Voisihan tuon pistää tilaukseen, kunhan nyt saa tämän muunkin tuotannon kuunneltua ensiksi läpi. Ensimmäisen albumin kolmas biisi menossa ja kovaa kamaa on.
When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
That life down here is just a strange illusion
Ou jee. Ensi vuonna tulee monta sellaista levyä, joita odotan kalu kovana, ja tämä on yksi niistä. Saattaapi olla, että laitan ennakkotilaukseen, niin ei tarvi ottaa sitä riskiä, että jakelusopimus Suomessa on katkolla ja levyn saapuminen Härmän marketteihin tapahtuis viiveellä. Nimmarit toki löytyy jo edelliseltä lätyltä, mutta mukavahan niitä on tiirailla.
Tästä ensimmäinen maistiainen Kreikan teeveestä. Hyvä kuva ja ääni, mutta studio ei ehkä paras konsertoimiseen
Raskas ja melodinen linja jatkuu. Loistava biisi joka tullee olemaan eka sinkku. Diggasin eniten ankarasta kitarapaahdosta, kertosäkeestä ja lopun ooooo-hoilatuksesta. Blazen ääni hienossa tikissä jonka kuulee parhaiten kertosäkeen vedätyksessä
Tässä muuten uuden levyn biisien nimet, järjestyksestä ei ole tietoa onko tämä lopullinen.
1. Watching The Night Sky
2. Madness And Sorrow
3. 1633
4. God Of Speed
5. City Of Bones
6. Faceless
7. Time To Dare
8. Surrounded By Sadness
9. The Trace Of Things That Have No Words
10. Letting Go Of The World
11. Comfortable In Darkness
Hyvältähän tuo biisi kuulostaa, mutta molempien versioiden soundit jättävät vielä toivottavaa. Että kieli pitkällä odottelen ensimmäistä kunnon tuotannon omaavaa maistiaista
Tässä tuleva sinkkubiisi Watching The Night Sky studioversiona ja kuvaa Kreikan seikkailusta. Soundi ei paras, mutta täytyy todeta nyt kun kuuli tän alkuperäisen version, että helvetin kova biisi! Klassikon ainesta prkl!
On Monday morning (14 Dec) Larry came round to get the final master disc of 'Promise and Terror'. It is a moment we have been working towards for months. I hand the disc to Larry and he takes it to the factory in Sheffield and when they are happy that everything is working the way it should be, he gets back to helping our manager with the mountain of work she has to do to get the album promotion out on time and organize the European tour dates. Listening to my personal copy of ‘Promise and Terror’ on my own stereo for the first time was a great feeling. So much has gone into this recording, so much has happened since ‘The Man Who Would Not Die’ and so much has happened while we were making this album. Letting it go to the factory was letting it be born. Nothing can be changed now. I hope you enjoy it. It is deep and fast and dark and speaks about our lives and the way we have chosen to live. In the next few weeks there will be reviews in magazines and on web sites but the real people whose opinions matter to me are the fans that buy the album. It's you who support me and the band and enable us to make albums and go on tour.
Liverpool rocks
We are on our way to Liverpool for the next Wolfsbane/Quireboys gig. It's a long time since I did a gig there and I'm really looking forward to it. I don't know how it will compare to last Saturday night at JB's in Dudley. So many fans from way back and it's my home. Thanks to everyone that travelled and a special mention to those few that did all three shows last weekend. I hope you enjoyed the version of ‘Shakin’ we did
just for you. That was Saturday night. I enjoyed my hangover on Sunday as best I could. Steve Danger had disappeared and arrived back at my house late Sunday night mumbling about missing a day.
It was bloody freezing outside the venue. but even so the gig was a sell-out. Echo and the Bunnymen were on a different floor in the same building but it didn't affect us or the Quireboys. The dressing rooms were quite small and there was a huge problem with the rider. It seems that all the ham, cheese and wine we asked for in the Wolfsbane dressing room had been put into the Quireboys' dressing room. It gets worse - they were eating our cheese and ham!! They had the bare-faced cheek to offer me some of my own stolen rider. Jeff was almost inconsolable when he thought he would miss out on his pint of red wine. Tour managers were told to square up to each other to get it sorted out. During the first few songs of our set Jeff had problems with his bass. I think he might have been unsettled by the controversy over the rider. That and being a fat bastard.
In Glasgow there are no problems with the rider. The pints of red wine were available and Steve Danger had a nice pint of White. Wolfsbane are a part of the history of the Glasgow rock scene. We were the first band to play Glasgow Cathouse in 1987. The owner of the cathouse now owns The Garage and he runs a radio station that he was barred from DJ-ing on because of lewd comments in a thick Glasgow accent. He came to congratulate us on our show and to say hi to the Quireboys. Our gig was the best so far. People had travelled from all over Scotland for Wolfsbane and the Quireboys. The reaction was overwhelming. We had a few sliding drum problems during our set but nothing that could spoil the amazing vibe from the Scottish fans. For our encore we did a special version of ‘Wild Thing’. We just jammed it and changed all the words for Glasgow. There is a pie called a beef growler. The fire alarm went off at 4am and there was shaving foam round one of the doors on our floor and some shrieking women were running past our room til the early hours and mysteriously a quilt and a pillow were left outside one door. After our wonderful gig we went for our first and only after show curry.
The Sheffield gig was sooo good for reasons that just don't make sense. The load in was bleedin’ ridiculous! We had to carry all our gear about 200 meters in the freezing cold and it was snowing a bit, and dark. When we did get to do our soundcheck Jase Edwards’ amp started to make a funny crackling sound. Then his Wang bar went wonky and we hadn't played anything. The manager came over and said we had to abandon our soundcheck because the gig was sold out and people in the bar were getting restless. So we went back to the dressing room to pray we could get through the gig without anything breaking down. We came up with a plan to survive any break downs: Jase would steal the Quireboys’ gear and pretend it was their idea and I would do one of my extra long healing sessions like the one Larry, Dave and me first did at our first Clive Aid gig in London - Nic had two amps and they both broke down during the gig! We were doing ‘Kill and Destroy’ and the three of us jammed a ten minute bass drum and vocal section while Nic tried to get one of the amps going. We healed the audience using the power of metal. Obviously we could only heal people of small things like being miserable coz of work or the weather or the congestion charge, but it seemed to work. Everyone seemed a lot happier when Nic finally got an amp to work by using a different power socket on the wall. It turned out that it wasn't the amps at all. The bloody wiring in the plug socket behind his amp was dodgy.
That was also the first time I met Clive and his wife. Debbie was introduced to them as well but she was coming down the stairs at the time and tripped over and fell right on top of Clive in his wheelchair. It was all a bit too much for Clive and he had to go home shortly after that. Debbie was unhurt and of course apologized. Anyway to his credit Clive didn't bear a grudge and did see the funny side of it. We were invited to do another couple of Clive Aid gigs, and at a time when we had nothing going for the band it really helped us. That night I met Simon, the singer from Beholder and we became friends and he gave me a Beholder tee shirt. A year or so later I was booked to play the Rock and Blues festival in Derby. I chose to wear my Beholder t-shirt and who should be there as one of the organizers but Simon. It was a great moment of serendipity when I took of my jacket and revealed my Beholder tshirt. One of those laugh out loud moments that so rare and so beautiful.
In Sheffield I was warding my Filthy Sex t-shirt, and if I was called on to do any healing I was sure it would help. The small difference being that in Wolfsbane we heal using the power of rock, and rock has slightly different healing properties. It's better for healing people who are feeling low because of the cold or have run out of money for booze and kebabs. We stood by the side of the stage and waited for our lovely cheesy intro ‘Who's afraid of the big bad wolf’ to roll. Er it didn't come on. Instead, the ‘Werewolves of London’ came on….which we usually only use in London. From the moment we started it we great. No technical problems, great reaction from all the audience and I managed to a avoid any major healing. The corridor to the dressing room in Sheffield was the longest coldest passage-way I have ever experienced. One of the signs put up there said ‘Keep Going’.
Newcastle is Spike’s hometown. I was looking forward to seeing his mum who I met years ago when we were doing a gig at the Mayfair. Sadly she wasn’t well so she didn't make it to the gig. One of the best things about this day was the Rage-Factor. Rage Against The Machine became the Xmas number one. Sticking it to the man and the mainstream music biz, real people made this happen. As a special tribute to this huge and life-affirming act of musical rebellion we jammed a version of ‘Wild Thing’ that actually changed into ‘Killing In The Name Of’ in our dressing room. As far as we were aware it was the first time in the history of music this had ever been done. My last big ‘first’ was when the Blaze Bayley band played Moscow and Dudley over the same weekend. Sadly we didn't get a chance to do ‘Killing…’ onstage on Sunday in Newcastle because time ran out and so the world was deprived of the experience.
Tuesday 22nd December I was back in the studio with Jase Edwards doing a song for a metal opera project called Soulspell. It should have been done weeks ago but problems and studio availability meant it kept getting pushed back and this was the first and last free day that it was possible to record. It all went really well. I am a character in the story of the opera. The Soulspell album comes out next year some time. We will put the details on our website when we have them.
So that was my last proper work day of the year. So much has happened it's just crazy. Tragedy and triumph, laughter and tears - sometimes on the same day. A crazy year. Now it's time to look forward to the Promise of the new year and leave behind some of the Terror of the old year.
23rd of December - this is the start of my holiday. So I'm finishing my blog and I will bid you all a Metal Xmas and a Heavy New Year.
Christmas Eve - That's it. I've blogged. I wish you all a Metal Xmas and a Heavy New Year. See you all soon on the Promise and Terror tour.
