The Return of Black Box Recorder?
Music // Jim // 16th October 2007
Black Box Recorder seemed to have packed things up as far as I could tell, Luke Haines has put out a suitably misanthropic solo record fairly recently. While Sarah Nixey has also been making a solo go of it, cue a bundle of reviews and articles with the inevitable strict headmistress fantasy overtones.
Was alerted earlier to the following written on the Wikipedia entry for BBR:
"There are rumours that Black Box Recorder have been working on new material, prompted by the 35th anniversary of the Black September massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics"
...which, to be honest, does sound sort of feasible. A new album would be an exciting, if troubling prospect. Especially if it has anything on it approaching the genuinely unsettling nature of their cover of Uptown Top Ranking off England Made Me. Lets hope they tour so that we can all go and feel a bit err, funny again.
Also mentioned in despatches is some kind of Christmassy collaboration with the mighty Art Brut. After this and the Hank Starrs collaboration on Direct Hit I'm now fairly convinced that Eddie Argos will be summoning up the Vessel/Mr Solo, formerly of David Devant and His Spirit Wife for some kind of spectaular hat-trick. Let's hope so.
Comments
Mr John Moore has a rather lovely website, although sadly a bit out of date.
http://www.john-moore.net/
Ms. Nixey recently covered The Human League’s (mark one version) evil “Black Hit of Space”, which nearly led me to explode with pure joy, but it’s way too pristine. Still, nice to hear James Burke namechecked.
http://www.sarahnixey.com/
stevepaperjam : 16/10/2007 23:23:19