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NewsThe Bravery discuss new albumThe Bravery's sophomore album, 'The Sun And The Moon', hits US shelves today (May 22). The New York quintet have been previewing the new material on their current North American tour, and frontman Sam Endicott told NME.COM he was worried about how audiences would respond. "I was a little scared at first because if you don't recognize the songs you're not gonna jump up and down, so I didn't know how people would react," he admitted. "But the reaction's been really good. I think people get into it because every song is different from every other." In addition to touring the US this spring and Europe this summer, Endicott said the band will be working on dance remixes and acoustic versions of songs from 'The Sun And The Moon'. "We did an acoustic version and a dance remix version of the first single 'Time Won't Let Me Go', and I'm trying to do that for all of the songs," Endicott said. "It's cool to see the different directions you can go with them. Plus a song like 'Time' -- it's so not a disco song that it's really fun to make a disco song out of it. Whereas doing an acoustic version of 'An Honest Mistake' was lots of fun because it's so different." Endicott said that the band plan to post the remixes and acoustic versions online or turn them into 7-inch singles. The Bravery are currently in Los Angeles, where they're performing on the Jimmy Kimmel show tomorrow night (May 23) and Last Call With Carson Daily on Thursday (May 24). The band will also give a live performance on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, which airs tomorrow (May 23) on KCRW.com. Endicott admitted that after their last tour, he thought he'd never want to hit the road again. "For the last album we did 18 straight months of touring and by the end I was like, 'Fuck this. I never want to do this again,'" he said. "But now we've been off the road for eight months and I was bored out of my mind so I'm glad to be back on tour." He added: "It's more fun for us now because the new songs are harder to play and a lot more challenging. And now that the album is coming out, it'll be fun to play it for people who actually know the songs." Richard Hawley pays tribute to Lee Hazlewood Following the death of songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood, which was announced this morning (August 6), Richard Hawley has paid tribute to one of his favourite artists, key influences and friends. Hawley was not only a fan, but shared a stage with the singer-songwriter in 2002 and later conducted one of the last interviews Hazlewood gave before his death. "I don't think he realised how much he was respected and loved," the Sheffield singer told NME.COM. "I remember asking him about being made a major difference to a lot of people and he just couldn't get his head round it. "I was there the first time he did the Royal Festival Hall (in London), and when he came offstage his guitarist asked "Lee, what's that noise?". Lee said 'That's applause', and when he came back on stage he said to the audience 'Please don't clap that loud, the band aren't used to it'[laughs]." Hawley added that Hazlewood, perhaps best known for his work with Nancy Sinatra, was a visionary musician in his own right. "He wrote and produced it, and yeah, he just had a unique way of doing things," he explained. "You can't pin him down. I mean I've got hundreds of his records and he was beyond interesting. I asked him about reverb, his was unique to anyone else's, and he said they used to rent a grain store off a farmer he knew, and they'd record the artist inside there, but they used to have problems with birds landing on it so they employed someone with a pellet gun to shoot all the birds off the top of it!" [laughs] "He always described himself as a really limited singer because his voice was below baritone, but I find his singing to be amazing. He's one of my favourite singers of all time. The cynicism in the voice was great but he always flipped the coin. If it was a cynical song there would be a line in there which was quite humane. He used to say the songs that sell the most are dumbest and he'd always write what he considered to be 'dumb songs' - they're often my favourites." Hawley added that with the increasing specialisation of music roles, an artist with a complete vision like Hazlewood did were becoming a rare breed. "He was so many things, producer, writer, arranger, singer, a performer. His life, that kind of artist, there aren't many of them left," said Hawley. "Ironically Lee Hazlewood was overlooked in his life but we'll desperately miss him a lot more than we realise." A full obituary is on NME.COM now. Meanwhile send your memories and tributes for Hazlewood to news@nme.com with Lee as the subject and we'll print the best. |
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