Attack Of The Grey Lantern

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Adam Walton's personal thoughts of little consequence". Adamthomaswalton.co.uk. 23 January 2011. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012 . Retrieved 15 April 2012. We originally recorded this song with a hip hop groove and some exceptional swearing that was rejected by the record company, these versions appear on the outtakes disc of the box set and its really interesting to hear these early versions and how we finally arrived at the finished version of this song that closed the album. I always thought the chords and melody movement were really complex on this song and I can only imagine they’ll make a West End musical out of it in the end, which would be a suitable ending to the life of this record I think. We added the ‘na, na, na’ outro at the last minute and had a huge choir of Liverpool’s finest scallies turn up to sing the closing refrain of the album. At the very end you can hear them singing ‘Duncan Ferguson’, Everton’s centre forward at the time.” The second wave of Britpop introduced various bands of dubious merit – Rialto, Symposium, the truly wretched Gay Dad – but Mansun were one of its genuine successes. Violin [Violin 1] – Adonis Alvanis, Enrico Alvares, Jagdish Mistry, Julia Barker, Karin Leischman*, Miranda Playfair, Oliver Lewis (2), Sarah Ewins

Photography By [Band Photography] – Akiko & Miho, Ian Tilton, Neil Mersh, Pennie Smith, Tom Sheehan (3) The songs themselves were guitar-driven with a playful, experimental edge. The band’s use of orchestral strings, ambient noise and sideways lyrics led to them becoming leading players in what the British music press somewhat unconvincingly called New Grave (alongside supposedly similar moodists Placebo and Radiohead). The Chad Who Loved Me has more than a hint of Ride’s Leave Them All Behind, while Disgusting carries traces of late-80s Tears for Fears in its bold ambition. Draper could certainly write killer singles. Taxloss was a near-perfect conflation of The Beatles and the Stones, borrowing from Taxman and We Love You respectively. Wide Open Space was blissful pop with a soaring solo from guitarist Dominic Chad, soon adopted by the clubland massive thanks to Paul Oakenfold’s dance remix. THE ICONIC #1 DEBUT ALBUM FROM BRITISH LEGENDS MANSUN CELEBRATED WITH 21st ANNIVERSARY REMASTERED EDITIONAs Draper puts it "The Grey Lantern is like a comic-book hero – the album is about this village of people with really disgusting morals & the Grey Lantern sorts them out. I suppose the Grey Lantern's me. I wouldn't have a cape, but there are definitely characters on the record – Albert Taxloss, Chad, Dark Mavis. At the end of the album, it all gets resolved & you find Mavis is actually the Stripper Vicar." What remains consistent however is the albums commitment to scope, each song feeling like a sweeping and ambitious statement, sometimes over indulging in that to the point of pretention. This excess in scope is not alien to Britpop as Oasis infamously flirted with it on their ill-fated third album, and while that album is nowhere near as bad as its reputation suggests I believe that Mansun manage to harness this scope more effectively.

An article in The Guardian on 24 December 2011, entitled "The Guide's guide to the next 12 months", claimed that the band were set to reunite in 2012 with a new album planned, [63] but was later denied by official sources and confirmed to be a mistake by the article's author. Seraphim News And Views - MansunMusicLovers". Pauldraper-mansun.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 January 2012 . Retrieved 15 April 2012. MANSUN.NET History - Profiles - Dominic Chad". 30 December 2002. Archived from the original on 30 December 2002 . Retrieved 15 April 2012.Mansun News". PaulDraper-Music.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 November 2006 . Retrieved 15 April 2012. In March 2008, on the prospect of a Mansun reunion, Draper stated that whilst he and Andie Rathbone were interested, "Dominic Chad would never do it, so it can't happen". [25] In 2010, Rathbone commented that it was a "pity the three others couldn't stop dramatising the problems and get out again, as we'd be phenomenal". [56] In 2011 Rathbone again confirmed his and Draper's desire to reform the band, but added that a reunion would have to include all four band members and that neither King nor Chad were interested.