Industrial Strength: Inside Track – Sept 6, 2013
Havana Brown unveils track listing
After selling 2.5 million singles from her debut EP When The Lights Go Out and two #1s on the American dance charts, Havana Brown wasn’t about to take the foot off the pedal when it came to her debut album Flashing Lights. She spent the last year based in the U.S., getting by on four hours’ worth of sleep while she worked on the album. “When it comes to the concept of taking it easy,” she says, “I think, well, what am I taking it easy from? I have a great life. I’m working, doing what I love to do.” The album is set for an October 11 release. It includes collaborations with Pitbull, RedOne, Afrojack, R3hab, Luciana, Nick Clow, Cave Kings and Grammy winning producer Rodney Jerkins (who produced two songs). Tracks onFlashing Lights are Warrior, We Run The Night (feat. Pitbull), Big Banana (Feat. R3hab and Prophet of 7Lions), Ba*Bing, Naughty, Flashing Lights, Any1, Someone To Love, One More Time,No Tomorrow Last Night (feat Havana Brown & Afrojack) and You’ll Be Mine (feat R3hab).
Busby Marou prepping second album
“I love playing this,” says frontman Tom Busby of their new single Get You Out Of Here. “It’s about long distance relationships, the battles and hurdles involved. I spent an incredible week with Jeremy (Marou) in Byron Bay, writing songs and being isolated from everything. I said to my girlfriend afterwards that being away from the outside world, you can’t help but get this feeling of, ‘I want to stay here’. It’s about looking forward to the time when I can get both of us out of our situation; get us both forward to where we want to be.” The track is the lead-off single from their second album Farewell Fitzroy, due out October 4. It was released in Nashville with US producer Brad Jones (Missy Higgins, Josh Rouse, Justin Townes Earle) with a song they co-wrote with Don Walker. Marou remarks: “On the first album we were a duo, but now we’re a full band – and that’s what you’re hearing on this new record, the full band sound. We really wanted to capture our live feel.”
The Tiger & Me land spot in The Turning movie
Other Friends Have Flown Before, by Melbourne folk pop band The Tiger & Me, deals with the death of a loved one. Singer Ade Vincent explains, “The lyrics are closely modeled on a stanza from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, and the line ‘Other Friends Have Flown Before’ comes directly from the poem. I have been setting the entire poem to music as a solo project, but when I wrote music for that particular stanza it came out sounding like a The Tiger & Me song in waiting… I took it to the band and we used the poem as a starting point for new lyrics, but kept a lot of the original poetry in there.” Haunting with big vocals, it immediately made an impact on audiences.
When Robert Connolly, director of Tim Winton’s The Turning was looking for a song for the trailer, he wanted something specifically Australian. The song’s mood and big vocal chorus fitted his needs. The song, which was released on The Tiger & Me’s second album The Drifter’s Dawn (Four l Four/ABC), is also included on the soundtrack album. The Turning hits the cinemas on September 26, featuring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Miranda Otto, Rose Byrne, Richard Roxburgh and Callan Mulvey. The Tiger & Me are on the road until December 14 on their latest tour.
The return of the Who’s pinball wizard
The Who’s Tommy rock opera is getting a Deluxe and Super Deluxe makeover for this Christmas. The reissue of the classic 1969 opus comes with 20 unreleased demos from Pete Townshend’s archives and a never before released live performance of Tommy. The interesting thing about the live tracks was that they aren’t supposed to exist. The Who recorded their October 15, 1969 show at the Capital Theatre, in Ottawa, Canada. They told their sound man Bob Pridden to destroy the tapes but he refused and secretly kept them. 18 of the 22 tracks of the live version comes from the Ottawa show. I’m Free, Tommy’s Holiday Camp and We’re Not Gonna Take It missed out because the reel to reel tapes were being changed as the band bashed away, and these three now appear from a later show.
The super deluxe box set version is a 4CD version with an 80 page full-color hard cover book. It will feature 5.1 surround sound mix in the new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format, according to the band.
Wordlife word up on the Small Talk video
When Sydney electro-house production duo Wordlife (Adam Bozzetto & Barney Kato) needed some visuals for the new Doc Daneeka remix of their track Small Talk, they merely handed the track to Negative Films – the young Sydney video and animation crew who did their Visions clip – and told them “We trust you, so interpret it how you will!” The result, which Kato calls “fabulous”, is a hark back to black and white sci-fi movies. “But you’ll notice at the end they have green-screened us in for a cameo!” How many sci-fi movies were used? “To be honest, I’m not entirely sure – but it’s probably a trade secret or one for the filmic trainspotters out there.” See here. The track is out through Club Mod, the Modular imprint.