by Enormous on July 21, 2010
I’m still very busy working twenty-five hours a day on the new Enormous album, I’m afraid – well, I’m not afraid exactly, more like absolutely terrified. Terrified that if I do not manage to find some extra hours from somewhere we won’t meet the October deadline.
Thus it is that blog posts are still few and far between.
Today I have been rewriting the string arrangement for The Ballad of Roy and Velma, a poignant little ditty about a downtrodden and stoical heroine who escapes from her disappointment with life by listening to old Roy Orbison records, the Big O. On the surface, it is a story full of pathos and humour but, as usual with my stuff, there is an underlying element of tragedy. A close reading of the lyrics will reveal that the song is partly about the artistic value of self-betrayal – a little Hemingway-esque for me, but there you go. Maybe I’m branching out a bit on this album. Who knows?
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by Enormous on March 22, 2009
I wish people – well, men, I suppose – would not expectorate in public quite so freely around here.
Audrey stepped in a grotesque lump of glowing mucus when we left the house this morning; and a few minutes later I had to dodge flying spittle while I listened to a speech from Reg on the folly of the present government’s immigration policy (he blames all the Polish people of the village who he says could ‘spit for Poland at the Olympics’).
He delivered a colourful and passionate discourse on the subject which was punctuated by him absent-mindedly depositing monstrous gobs of luminous saliva everywhere in a rather enthusiastic and festive manner. Disgusting, and all too common.
Changing the subject, I have just posted a version of The Way That It Should Be on the Enormous website/blog. This is the version of the song that appears on the album Almost Everything. Look out for a totally different version of it on the new album which is due for release in the summer.
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