Uk Tour Dates to promote Fountain

[Dr Cheese]

The Fountain, which is described as “a superbly feisty album of pulsating, uplifting rock anthems”.

By Mac I presume?

[black francis]

The Fountain was kick-started in 2007 when frontman McCulloch began working on some new ideas with three London-based musicians.

“I thought Will [Sergeant] and I needed to do stuff differently, but so the result still sounded like the Bunnymen,” he explains. “What we got with Think I Need It Too and Forgotten Fields, I thought, ‘Yeah, this is how it should sound.’”

He and Will needed to do something differently so he goes and works without Will? And who are these three London based musicians?

I think some collaboration could do them some good but this sounds a bit sketchy. I guess Will wasn't kidding when he said it was Ian's album.

[kook]

By Mac I presume?

That's just what I thought.

[In The Margins]

Here's the full interview. It looks like all the quotes are coming from this.

"Conversation with Jesus" -


http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk/index.asp? ... woid=14087

'The Fountain' is a massive return to form. It's a superbly feisty album of pulsating, uplifting rock anthems such as the joyous 'Think I Need It Too', 'Do You Know Who I Am', 'Forgotten Fields', 'Everlasting' and the Bowie-esque pop of 'Proxy', 'Shroud Of Turin', all centred around a grand, reflective soul-stirring ballad 'The Idolness Of Gods'. It's a powerful album that sees the Bunnymen back to their very best and with a truly modern sensibility that should see a whole new generation discover one of the UK's most iconic bands.

'The Fountain' was kick-started in 2007 when McCulloch began working on some new ideas with three London-based musicians. "I thought Will (Sergeant) and I needed to do stuff differently, but so the result still sounded like the Bunnymen," he says. "What we got with 'Think I Need It Too' and 'Forgotten Fields', I thought, 'Yeah, this is how it should sound.'"

The album was pieced together over the next year, with Mac and Will working on tracks at Parr Street Recording Studios in Liverpool.

Mac : " The last few years have been pre-and post renaissance years, and the Bunnymen, because of this album & these songs and the Ocean Rain shows, feel more important than ever"

He points to 'The Idolness Of Gods' cathartic "soul-baring" and the words of 'Do You Know Who I Am'. "'Do you know who I am?' is a phrase you daren't ever say," he muses. "It's very tongue in cheek, but I'm saying throughout the album that I know exactly who I am. And I feel like rubbing your noses in it again. I know what I'm on about now."

Among the album's greatest moments is the shimmering, impish 'Shroud Of Turin', in which Mac comes face-to-face with Christ.

"The song is a kind of conversation with Jesus," says Mac. "It's tongue-in-cheek, but it's also just another way of praying. It was based around a gig in Rimini at a club called, I think, The Transylvania. I saw this image in the monitors, it was Jesus' face. I stopped the song, and said, If you all want to file past, you can see the Shroud Of Turin'."

The album's widescreen, crystalline sound is the work of Scottish producer John McLaughlin, whose credits may come as a surprise to some Bunnymen fans. "He's done work with Busted and Five, who I loved!" smiles Mac. "I just became really good friends with him. I really want a big, solid undertow beneath the lyrics, not all jingly jingly like 'Siberia'. I wanted someone I could trust to get the sound - when he heard me playing 'The Idolness Of Gods' with just guitar, it made him cry. He gets why I write the way I do. There's glory in it."

"'Siberia' got a lot of good press, especially in America," explains Mac. "But it wasn't the best thing ever, it never is. This one was exciting to make - I felt excited to think of the Bunnymen as exciting again. I've re-found my spite - some might call it 'angst", I prefer to think of it as spite."

"I'm just a better writer and better singer these days," he adds My voice has got more… honest, which fits these songs. This album is about something, rather than just sounding like it's about something. It's about having lived life, but still feeling like a kid. I'm a not traditional songwriter. What I do at my best is poetry."

If recent live shows are anything to go by Echo & The Bunnymen really do seem like a band rejuvenated. Their sold out 'Ocean Rain' shows last year at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Radio City Music Hall, New York & Liverpool Echo Arena were met with huge critical acclaim and recent performances at the likes of the Camden Crawl and Glastonbury rightly received rapturous receptions.

[black francis]

I want to believe Mac.

[Dr Cheese]

"I'm just a better writer and better singer these days,"

Is he taking the piss or does he really believe this bollocks?

[tonywojo]

Is he taking the piss or does he really believe this bollocks?

A bit of both, I think. Deluded.

[black francis]

I hope he's found his spite. That's never a bad thing. Perusing this forum might of helped.

Still any word who these three London musicians are? If it's true I am actually impressed Mac went to others to shake things up even if the results aren't to my liking.

That's all I can ask for. If the band is trying something different and falling on their faces then I can admire that and would support them.

[JackT]

Cigarettes: They make your voice honest!

[Joe-eatb]

Yeah I can't believe that at fifty years old he really should sound like he did when he was twenty five. I think a bunch of you guys should find a new band to follow so you don't have to keep trying to act like twenty five or thirty years haven't passed.

[black francis]

I was holding out hope but there it is. Joe-eatb says to find a new band fellas.

Farewell.

Mr. Brian, please delete my account for the last time.

[Dr Cheese]

Yeah I can't believe that at fifty years old he really should sound like he did when he was twenty five. I think a bunch of you guys should find a new band to follow so you don't have to keep trying to act like twenty five or thirty years haven't passed.

Where has anyone said he should sound like he did at 25? Obviously his voice will have changed over the years, what I'm objecting to is Mac claiming he is a BETTER writer and singer these days, If you agree with that then fair enough but I think it's a load of crap and I'm sure, deep down, Mac does too. Different yes but better? I don't ****ing think so!

[black francis]

Where has anyone said he should sound like he did at 25?

Oops.

http://forum.villiersterrace.com/viewto ... 3476#33476

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

25? He still sounded the same at 33. Age-affected vocals my arse.

[fat cherry]

Yeah I can't believe that at fifty years old he really should sound like he did when he was twenty five. I think a bunch of you guys should find a new band to follow so you don't have to keep trying to act like twenty five or thirty years haven't passed.

i keep looking joe but non fit the bill. perhaps i'm ready for that beatles compilation i've been avoiding because, as good as it is, its just not cool enough.