When the tour bus is a rockin ;-)
So it's been a full on week boucin around the country in a smelly tour bus. Met hundreds of crazy people all over the place in their own minds at some well dispersed venues. The service station food was well shit and I've had no sleep!!! LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!! Just had an awesome show @ the Concorde 2 & Quay-fest, cheers guys and rockin on Thurs & Fri for Blackpool & Accrington, lets see what unfolds, possibly my mind!!
New LONDON date announced at 93 Feet East, 17th Sep:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148938009809&ref=mf
I will also be going out on a Glasswerks tour, so watch this space for dates and info!!
http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/news/national/6439/Ocean%20Reid%20Single%20And%20Tour%20Detials
CMU asked me the same 6 questions:
http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/daily/090827.html
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Life seems to dish up some pretty tasty treats, but also some really twisted dark cruel stuff. Kinda like some really messed up, mashed up sick joke. So I always seem to be watching myself and people close to me crashing into walls as the wheels fall off. I just always seem to be around as the last finger slips off the rail and people lose their grip on everything.
So my forthcoming album, 'Sonnets From The Recovery Position', came together as a record of some of the best instances and darkest moments to blow my life to pieces. I seemed to lose a lot of good people in a very short space of time through some pretty grim deaths and circumstances. Stuff that just destroys your head and leaves you with nothing but massive questions that just don't have any answers and never will. This left me with some pretty big gaps to fill, I wrote so many songs whilst trying to make sense of things, it sounds pretty stupid but it did help to begin finding a small perspective to a large mess.
Too many hospitals and funerals for myself, friends and family, but I guess I've said it all on the album, I don't do names though, that stuff is private and always will be. I think most people's lives are in constant need of a wheelbarrow and a sweeping brush. Maybe even a skip. Who knows? But we all need somewhere to put the mess, I just put mine into an album. I just call it as I see it. I guess my album is inspired by a skip full of glass.
Read it all at: http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/daily/090827.html
Above picture - Copyright Allan Johns "LIVE IN CAMDEN LONDON AUG 2009"
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