jack99 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 THE CRYING GAME!BRETT ANDERSON and BERNARD BUTLER havenamed their new band THE TEARS – and say thesessions have been as exciting as when theyrecorded the first SUEDE album. Last week NME.COM were invited by the duo to aLondon studio where they’re mixing the final songsfor The Tears’ as-yet-untitled debut album, which isdue for release in the spring. The name of the band isa reference to a Philip Larkin poem, ‘FemmesDamnées’, which ends "The only sound heard is thesound of tears". In their first interview together in a decade, Andersonand Butler told NME.COM that being back together hadbeen "incredibly inspiring" - despite the fact that theyhad to patch up their relationship. The pair’s acrimonious split meant they didn’t speak from Butler’s departure fromSuede in 1994 to Anderson picking up the phone at the end of last year in anattempt to regain his inspiration.Anderson said: "It seemed like the time was right. I didn’t finish with Suede in orderto give Bernard a call. It had to happen naturally, the band had to come to its naturaltermination. I felt that I’d written my best songs with Bernard."Bernard added: "There’s only one purpose of doing (the new album), and that’s tomake a great record. There’s no social ambitions, we don’t go bowling together!"Brett continued: "The first thing we said when we got together was that we won’trelease a note of music unless the album’s spectacular. That’s the most importantthing about it. We could have written for three years and if the songs hadn’t beenany good we wouldn’t have bothered getting to this stage with it. "There’s a lot of people out there who are worried about us getting back togetherand tarnishing what we’ve done before. Then there’s that whole issue of ‘Whenthey get back together are they going to live up to what they’ve done in the past?’We don’t want that to be an issue so it has to be spectacular."The songs were mainly recorded at Bernard Butler’s home studio, with the finalmixes done at Strong Room in East London. Backed by two new members, MakoSakamoto on drums and Nathan Fisher on bass, The Tears plan to play their firstlive shows before the end of the year. Source: http://www.nme.com/news/110253.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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