Attack Of The Grey Lantern

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With former Mansun frontman Paul Draper now enjoying a solo career after a number of years in the wilderness, his old band’s debut has been re-released in a special 21-year anniversary edition. The final single released from the album was "Taxloss" which followed the album in April 1997 and made No. The majority of the record is centred on the concept of a superhero, known as "The Grey Lantern", in the guise of Draper himself. The album was preceded by four singles, the first of which "Egg Shaped Fred" was released a year prior. It was our early formula before we developed as a band and this was probably the best of the bunch of our early demos.

I was planning ahead and already had the idea of a skit on a concept record already written down, this song does what it says on the tin and describes a particularly debauched night in the life of the characters on the record. It's Kscope 1175 and is the usual 12 songs ( 11 standard tracks with 6 on side one and the usual 5 plus the " hidden track" making a total of 6) but only on one 12" record. Each Mansun album started and ended with the same style of track, something I thought I’d be able to continue through all our records, so they became like a journey from start to finish. The Long Island metal band's third album etches arena-sized hooks into their jagged compositions, deftly balancing experimental and poppy inclinations.He kept a record of the original vocal that is now being released on the outtakes CD and listening back he was right. I remember being off my tits in Ibiza when Paul Oakenfold’s ‘Wide Open Space’ remix came on in Pacha and it blew me away. The audio has been fully remastered from the original master tapes by long-time Mansun collaborator P-Dub (Björk). This was going to be the big single after the album was released to turn us into a huge pop group, but for some reason or another (everyone has a different story) it wasn’t released and ‘Taxloss’ was put out instead. At the start of the recording sessions for the album I’d decided there would be no love songs on this album, or any Mansun album.

The amount of times I’ve sat in pubs trying to explain to people what ‘Stripper Vicar’ is all about is mind boggling, and in the mists of time, I’m not sure I can even remember myself. Attack Of The Grey Lantern’ was a dark, mysterious and quite strange album, filled with genre-hopping oddness, set in a fictitious northern English town and containing lyrics about a recurring character named Mavis. Never did get to see them live before they split, which is a real shame because I've heard that they put on a great live show. This was the earliest song I wrote for the album, you can tell from the lyric it’s from an earlier, more naive me. According to Mansun's Kleptomania liner notes, frontman Paul Draper states that "Take It Easy, Chicken" was their first song and the band really did not know how to play their instruments, let alone play as a band, when DJs Steve Lamacq and John Peel started to play the song on BBC Radio 1.Can someone create a new listing for this one please as I care not interfere in official Discogs entries, sorry ? Again, ploughing the religious imagery on this track, this song wasn’t immediately a huge hit but seems to be remembered along with ‘Taxloss’ as the most well-known on the album. They released four classic albums – Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997), Six (1998), Little Kix (2000) and the compilation Kleptomania following the band’s split – as well as a popular and now rare series of EPs. In the US, Mansun enjoyed their only chart success with "Wide Open Space" reaching the modest position of No. 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.