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| From | andrea kremer <kremer@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bleu |
| Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:00:14 -0500 |
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FYI Boston-area fans: I've got Bleu opening for the Candy Butchers at the
next Boston Pop Underground show on Friday, November 25th at the Lizard
Lounge. That's the day after Thanksgiving, so come do some headbanging and
booty-shaking and work off those holiday calories!
Hope to see you there.
A
On 11/4/05, Patrick Beckers <Patriczik@home.nl> wrote:
>
> As I will not be the only Bleu fan on this list, I wanted to share this
> with
> you. It's a bulletin Bleu has published on his Myspace website in which he
> informs his fans about a new record in 2006 and why it took so long...
>
> Patrick Beckers
>
> ..........***....NeW ReCORD...***
>
> ....yup...you heard right...if all goes acording to plan i'm going to
> "officially" begin recording my nEw rEcord (tentatively titled "a watched
> pot") before the end of this year...i will once again be working with
> uber-producer john fields (switchfoot, pink, andrew w.k., backstreet boys,
> semisonic, puffy amiYumi, the honeydogs, harmar superstar, etc.) and we're
> trying to get my best-bud ducky carlisle in the mix too...it looks like at
> least sOme of the tracks i've been working on for the past mAny months
> will
> end up on there...and yes, i am indeed stiLL with Aware Records (John
> Mayer,
> Train, Five For Fighting, Wheat, etc.)....eeee..
>
> many of you have been asking me for mOnths: "what's going on?" (with more
> or
> less specifics of course)..and i haven't really felt comfortable
> discussing
> it...but here is the loooOng sordid (mostly boring) tale kiddies (feel
> free
> to skip this):
>
> ...when my last record (redhead) did not meet label expectations (don't
> even
> ask what those are), i was basically told that i would not be able to make
> another record with them unless i delivered a "hit" (i actually considered
> myself lucky, most people don't get a second chance at all)...i was asked
> to
> make 7 demos...i eventually delivered 15...the powers-that-be were
> wishy-washy about most of the songs, but they agreed that one of them was
> indeed a bonafide "hit" (no, i'm not gonna tell you wich one)...so..we
> made
> preparations to begin recording the new record...but then, they decided
> that
> one "hit" was not enough...fair enough (they are a business after
> all)...but
> (and it gets rather complicated here), according to my contract, the label
> retains partial ownership of all the songs that i give them..even if they
> don't put out my record (or do anything at all actually)...it's a standard
> clause (even if it is a bit unfair), but basically, i didn't feel
> comfortable giving them anOther 15 songs when they weren't really making a
> commitment to release anything, and, i might not even be able to release
> the
> songs anywhere else either...so i got embroiled in convoluted contract
> re-negotiations to get that clause taken out of my contract...while this
> was
> going on, my long-time manager and friend of 10 years decided that i was
> not
> on his "to-do" list anymore..all of the guys i was playing with left my
> band
> because i couldn't afford to pay them anymore..people stopped returning my
> calls..etc..boo-friggin'-hoo-cares...i took this opportunity to write and
> record a crAp-load of stuff...i was broke and depressed, but it was kinda
> cool, 'cause finally noone was breathin' down my neck (even if it wAs for
> all the wrong reasons)..my friends ducky carlisle, john schrader, and the
> hansons (yes hanson) helped out enOrmously with this by letting me use
> their
> studios, engineering, etc..and i had help from many other friends and
> musicians too of course (i lOve-lUv-leuv you all)...eventually all this
> material revealed itself to be (what i consider) three separate projects
> (records, eps, whatever)...ELOPE, which is the ELO/JeffLynne inspired
> power-pop collective i've been whittling away at for a couple years..."the
> blizzards of '05", which is moody, anthemic, 80's inspired,
> reverb-rock..and
> "a watched pot", which is singer-songwriter and neo-soul/gospel inspired
> songs...with some "radio-friendly" pop-goobers thrown in for good
> measure....so yeah..eventually (like months and months later) i found a
> great new manager..finished up the contract renegotiation, and submited
> songs to the label...they were psyched..actually thought there were twO
> more
> "hits" (no, i'm not gonna tell you which songs), really liked the new
> manager, and...here we are.....i don't know when the new record will be
> done..i don't know when it will be released..i don't know what songs are
> gonna be on it (probably stuff from "..pot" and "..blizzards")..i don't
> know
> if my other projects (which are all still unfinished by the way) will ever
> get released..but, it does look like sOMEthing will come out next year
> (yAy)...i probably won't be doing much (if any) touring until the record's
> done, but i will likely continue to do shows in the new-england area, and
> possibly LA ('cause i'm gonna do some recording out there)...thank you all
> soOo much for your patience...continue to spread the word..it dOes
> matter...
>
>
>
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