![]() Before vegan was fashionable, I’ll let you know. Was it ever in anything that offended or surprised you?Ī: When Burger King used it, Steve was a vegan. Q: “I Melt With You” has been in so many commercial and films. We only really didn’t do the band for about seven years. I moved out of London, firstly decided to change my life. Q: What did you do in the years Modern English wasn’t active?Ī: I had a vintage store that I ran for a couple of years. The “Mesh & Lace” album is back in fashion. Suddenly we’re playing to 20-year-old kids in Joy Division T-shirts. Q: Do you think your music has come back into fashion?Ī: It is strange the whole punk thing has come around again. We didn’t want to overdub lots and lots of things. So we tried to do as much live as possible. The space has a massive live room which we could record in and get a big sound. Mick works in an art gallery space near where we live. We’ve got no record company.Ī: It took over two years to write and record it. But because we’re OK now, financially … we just decided to do what we wanted. ![]() When you’re trying to give exciting, edgy music to people, it’s sometimes difficult. The album is like a bridge between “Mesh & Lace” and “After the Snow.”Īfter “I Melt With You,” everything went crazy for us and we were in the commercial world of the music business. It sounds like it should have been the second album. Q:”Take Me to the Trees” is a return to your punk roots. We play the new song, which is just as good as anything else they’re gonna hear. Plus play a track from our new album to a middle-of-the road audience that wouldn’t normally hear it. This gives us a chance to play the old stuff and the commercial stuff. We did this tour because we’ve got the new album out. Left field stuff the first album, “Mesh & Lace.” We normally keep away from them because we prefer to go out on our own and play our really old wild material. Q: What is the best part of being on Retro Futura tour with other ‘80s artists?Ī: This is the first time we’ve done one. Even though “I Melt With You” has given us a lot of money over the years, we had to figure out a way to make it work financially as well. Antique Future, 11.A: The music business has changed so much. The album was recorded residential style - living, eating and sleeping music at Chapel Studios in the English countryside over a two month period, then mixed at Pete Townsend’s studio, The Barge, on the Thames in London and mastered at Metropolis Studios, London.Īlbum design by Vaughan Oliver, 23 Envelope.ġ. ![]() Modern English’s George Martin, Producer Hugh Jones (“I Melt With You”, After The Snow, Ricochet Days, plus Simple Minds, Echo & The Bunnymen, That Petrol Emotion, Pale Saints, The Charlatans, etc.) produced Soundtrack. Modern English now is Robbie Grey (vocals), Steven Walker (guitar), Nik Williams (bass), Matthew Shipley (keyboards) and Jon Solomon (drums). The songs ranging from the uplifting, jangle-pop with infectious, sing-along chorus and dance-able beat of “It’s Ok”, the record’s obvious single, and the equally inspired “Blister” and “Up Here in the Brain”, to dark, downtempo grooves with somber keyboard washes in which Grey sings of never-far-off blackness and suicide, “Soundtrack”, “Bomb”, “The Lowdown”, are all characteristically introspective and consistent with Modern English’s best work. Described by Robbie Grey as, “Some real music for real people with real emotions”, Soundtrack marks the convincing return of a band with a solidly recognizable, signature sound and pop sensibility. Now as then, Modern English is smart, modern pop, firmly rooted in post-punk yet undeniably Beatle-esque. Their classic album After the Snow (4AD: 1982) featured what became a radio/club mega-hit and MTV staple, “I Melt with You”, which was used in the film Valley Girl, in more than one TV advertisement and became the flagship track on the popular Nouvelle Vague covers album. Darla Records is proud to offer the seventh album by iconic post-punk/new wave pop craftsmen Modern English, best known for their hit song “I Melt with You”. ![]()
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