News Archive - 2002
September 2002
February 2002 Beggars Banquet recording artist Michael J Sheehy has also called in doctor
raymonde for piano duties on several tracks on his forthcoming album...check
Beggars Banquet for more info. Cool independent label Domino (Smog, Clinic, Jim O'Rourke, Fourtet)
had Simon Raymonde mix the forthcoming debut album from James Yorkston, a
brilliant mix of punk, folk, somewhere between Shane MacGowan's lyrical
brilliance and Nick Drake's elegant delivery. East West Records signing ARCHIVE's new single Again due out in April will
have a version of the song re-recorded and re-mixed by Simon Raymonde.
"Well...the summer just went by in england, as if it were a friend on a sleepover,
and yet even if it had been hot i would not have known about it.
Since working on the James Yorkston record for Domino in January, I have
been back in studio as producer with young Brighton-based band CLEARLAKE who
are quite simply the best british band since The Smiths. With huge tunes,
incredible harmonies, subtle inter-weaving guitars, punk attitude and skinny
little bodies (bastards), they will make you swoon. They will release
'Trees' on Domino later. We will be mastering at Abbey Rd soon, so check the
Domino site for news.
That has taken me the best part of two months, and in between days i have
been working with 60s starlet VASHTI BUNYAN. A protege of the Rolling
Stones' Andrew Loog Oldham, the divine Ms Bunyan has been keeping a
ludicrously low profile since, so me and a few other semi-notables ( Anthony
from JACK, Bob Stanley from ST ETIENNE, Glen from PIANO MAGIC, Kieran from
FOURTET, JAMES YORKSTON, etc) will be getting some things together for her
over the coming months, and early signs are that it will be a fantastic and
unusual record.
I have not been in the office much, but keeping in daily contact by phone
and fax and Peter and Fiona have been steering the Bella ship for me, but
now it's coming to the end of August and I will need to be back to help with
the Czars tour, the GARLIC release and the VENUE new album too, so lots to
do as usual. Feel free to email me whenever."
The new Tram album which will be out on Setanta in Europe and on Jetset in
the USA features Simon on 8 tracks playing an array of keyboard-y type
things like piano, hammond and rhodes. The album is called 'A kind of
closure' and will be released in April 2002. Setanta Records
