To be Confirmed

Released : August 2002

 

Personnel

Peter Nuttall - Music/Lyrics/Vocals
Douglas Hunter - Lyrics
Ian Forbes - Lyrics

We'd bought a new synth - a Roland EG-101 Groove Synth with voice sampler and one of those D beams you could break with your hand and make weird sounds.  It's used on the intro to 'Saturday Night - Sunday Morning' and it sounded great.  Transformed our sound overnight.

'Protest' was a lyric Ian had jotted down a few years ago but to this day he admits he doesn't know what he was trying to say.  It was quite political but a little cryptic.  'LFL' was written after I'd watched a Lionel Richie interview where he said 'there's only three types of love song.  You're either looking for love, you've found love or you've lost love'.  So the LFL stands for Looking, Found, Lost.  I disagree by the way - there are far more types of love song than that... 

'She doesn't have to know' was a song about how some lyrics aren't actually about something or someone - they're made up about fictional people.  Just because I sing 'Oh, I love her' doesn't mean I even get on with her - or that she's even a real person.  Am I giving too much away here?

The sounds you can hear on 'Time brings back goodbyes' is the new synth too! Great wasn't it?  'Reasons to Pray' used it too.  It gave the song an atmosphere we just wouldn't have been able to capture before - it made the ideas come to life and that song take on it's own little word.  

'Between nowhere and my world' was another lyric Ian had written in the same jotter as 'Protest' and this one had more context - about accepting people into your life who maybe don't quite align with your ideals.  'Bring it on' was an upbeat jaunt that Doug had written along with 'Surrender' and in between, 'History and how to rewrite it' which used the lyrics I'd written in March 1995.  We'd used the title for an album in 1996 and finally, to be honest - struggling for inspiration - dug into some old words for this.

We took the longest 'sabbatical' we'd ever had between albums after this one because we obtained a 12-track studio desk and set about re-recording the 'best of' the last 10 years.  This was a bad idea, because whilst we had the recording equipment now, we still had crappy keyboards and awful mics etc.  This album was released in August 2002 - we didn't write a new song until around March 2003.  

The album got it's title because I asked Ian to come up with one and we're still waiting so for now it's called 'To be confirmed'.

- Peter