Found this picture on the web and thought I'd post it. At least one of you - mentioning no names, Toffeeboy - will have noticed that this week marked the return of my favourite ever group Prefab Sprout. They come from Witton Gilbert - just down the road from where I grew up. I'm a little younger than Paddy - he's 52 and I'm 43 - but I still fantasize about having unknowingly been in the same pub as them. I've actually taken French friends to be photographed next to the 'Langley Park' roadsign - also a place just down the road. The new album Let's change the world with music is out and it's a blinder - both lyrically and musically. The afficionados amongst you will know that this album followed 'Jordan' chronologically - so they were at the top of their game. I'd love to hear if anyone has bought it and what you think. I won't review it here as the GU and Observer chaps have already given it a stellar write-up. No. I just wanted to post a link to a very nice interview with Paddy which you can download here. He sounds fantastically nice and has the same accent as I do, except from the "ay" sounds which are a bit flatter than mine. But then the 10 KM make all the distance.Welcome back, maestro. We missed you....
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Kudos to Toffee! If you google LCTWWM, your October 2008 post is the second result! Howzabout that? FP.
FP, are you just dots now?
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Wow! Thta's a pretty impressive Google result - although I seem to be down to third now ;o(
As you might have guessed, I have bought the album and have listened to little else this week - I haven't even had as much time to join in the middle-eight fun on the mothership as I'd have liked but some things have to be sacrificed for the greater good.
It is indeed a wonderful album, dated but not in a bad way - it's simply of its time. Earth, The Story So Far is the stand out track for me.
Apparently the sales have been good - should be in the top twenty - possibly even top ten - which hopefully will encourage Sony to release some of the other 50 or so albums which Paddy apparently has ready to go in his studio!
I hadn't realised quite how local to Paddy and the Sprouts you were, btw.
Thanks for posting this - stops me from sounding like a broken record!
Yup Blimpy - I've morphed into Dot Cotton. It's just that I have a blog for professional use under the same ID and Frogprincess was a bit odd.
Toffee - I'll glady add my blip to the record. Witton Gilbert just down the road and I love lstening to him talk - sounds like home. Loving the album.... FP.
Shall we just call you Ellip, sis?
Shall we just call you Ellip, sis?
Good solution, bro'
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