Description:
ARTiST: Wayne Jackson
ALBUM: The Long Goodbye
BiTRATE: 205kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Columbia
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 72.26 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 46min 37sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-08-23
STORE DATE: 2008-08-15
Track List:
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01. There Must Be Something More To 4:21
This
02. There Will Be No Surprise 3:47
03. The Storm 3:46
04. Glorious 3:54
05. Shine On 3:10
06. Radar 3:23
07. Tell Me 3:59
08. The Only One 3:54
09. Wake Up Baby 4:04
10. Hang On 3:36
11. Everything Is Beautiful 4:12
12. Wish You Were Here 4:31
Release Notes:
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Bill Shankly the legendary football trainer of Liverpool FC in the 60s and early
70s once famously said?.擣ootball's not a matter of life and death ... it's
more important than that.?He was mistaken of course. If he抎 substituted music
for football he抎 have been much more accurate.
Aged 15, in an average rainy Manchester suburb, Wayne Jackson informed his
sports teacher he would no longer be participating in the school football team
and in future would be spending his time in other more productive ways.
Typically, this would be attempting to play an electric guitar at deafening
volumes through an old WEM amplifier belonging to his oldest brother.
Sadly it all sounded rather uninspiring until one day the very same brother
returned home from work with a tape delay echo effect machine. Immediately after
plugging it in and wiring it up, Wayne was able to replicate the more ambitious
sounds of his favourite bands U2, The Chameleons and Joy Division. From this
point on, it was obvious where his passions lay. Manchester City Football Club
would have to look elsewhere. Over the course of the following years, the echo
machine remained on. It became part of the fabric of his guitar sound.
Switch scenes to the Hansa studios in Berlin, 20 years later, and Wayne can
still be found playing his electric guitar at deafening volumes through an old
Vox amplifier this time, but the old tape delay is still there. Not the original
one of course. This was lost along the way, swapped in a misguided attempt at
progress in the early 80s for a plastic digital effect from Japan. Everybody
makes mistakes. But this time he抯 laying down guitar tracks for his first solo
album with the renown Swedish producer and mixer Michael Ilbert (The Cardigans,
The Hives, Supergrass, The Hellacopters).
The intervening years were not uninteresting. Wayne抯 brother again reappeared
as a catalyst when he left his day job and became a live sound engineer. Over
the next 15 years he would work for a whole host of seminal groups; New Order,
The Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Electronic, The The, Primal
Scream, Oasis and The Chemical Brothers. Wayne was often invited along to shows
as a teenager and was able to see things from the shadows of backstage.
Wayne left Manchester to study at the University of Wales aged 18 and never
stopped moving. He graduated with a degree in English Literature and formed a
band called the Dostoyevskys. They signed to Go!Discs in London and began
touring extensively in the UK and Germany. They crossed paths with fellow
Mancunians Oasis and supported them at the height of their fame on two legs of
their European tour.
Eventually Wayne decided the band no longer fitted his needs and he split the
group to focus on his more personal solo material.
He fell in love with a girl from Berlin, packed his possessions and crossed the
channel heading for the old German capitol.
His new Berlin life offered fewer distractions. It was a kind of spiritual
exile. He wrote songs prolifically, day after day sitting in the small Berlin
apartment he shared with his girlfriend. He started to train kickboxing and
several years later entered into the German championships achieving a semi-final
spot.
Along the way he co-produced, co-wrote songs and played his echo guitar on the
solo album of German punk legend and friend Bela B. He also joined Bela on tour
as part of the Los Helmstedt band. The Echo Award nominated album peaked at
number 2 in the German charts and achieved wide critical acclaim. They headlined
at Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park and the MTV Campus Invasion.
He also played a similar role for another member of the flourishing Bela B.
family, Lula. Her delicious album entitled 揕ost In Reverie?will be released
this year too.
Switch scenes again. It抯 December 2004 and it抯 the birthday party of world
famous Trance DJ Paul Van Dyk. Wayne抯 manager hands Paul a demo featuring a few
of Wayne抯 songs. Paul was so inspired by the voice, he immediately wrote a
track for Wayne to sing. The layout was sent and over Christmas Wayne furiously
added lyrics, a vocal melody and guitar harmonies and the track Glorious was
born. Paul then asked him to do a similar job on a second track called The Other
Side which. This appeared on Paul抯 Politics Of Dancing 2 album and was released
as a single world wide. Wayne also sang live with Paul at a number of live shows
culminating in a performance in Central Park, New York in front of a sell out
crowd of over 10,000 people. Glorious will now finally see the light of day as
Wayne抯 first single.
Record deal offers came and went with the seasons, but none of the situations
seemed right. Pavarotti once said 揅ompare music to drinks. Some is like a
strong brandy. Some is like a fine wine. The music you're playing sounds like
Diet Coke.?Sadly the labels chasing Wayne seemed to be more interested in no
name cola.
For a brief period it looked like Wayne might relocate to the US, after
whisperings of typically fabulous record deals, but unsurprisingly he returned
to his second home Berlin and signed to the fledging label BPX 1992 headed by
the iconic figure of Fitz Braum. It was no coincidence it was also the home of
Bela B. and Lula. For the first time since leaving Manchester it felt like he
had found a new family.
Wayne抯 new album has fittingly enough been recorded in Berlin. It features a
guest appearance on violin from Goldfrapp抯 Davide Rossi who has also recently
added his flavours to the new Coldplay album. Apart from the drums which were
played by Swedish maestro Christer Jansson, the rest of the instruments were
played entirely by Wayne himself. Producer Michael Ilbert also managed to
organize the first live recording in the Meistersaal in Hansa studios, the room
where Bowie抯 Heroes, U2抯 Achtung Baby, and many other important songs were
recorded. It was the first session there for 17 years. The studio was closed and
stripped soon after U2 left in 1990.
The songs unashamedly hark back to the kind of sounds Wayne was listening to all
those years ago in Manchester. It抯 time. The circle is complete.
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