Evan Dando, now sober except for LSD, broadcasts launch date for memoir and teases new Lemonheads album

Evan Dando has revealed that he's now sober except for LSD, whereas confirming the discharge date for his upcoming memoir and teasing new music from The Lemonheads.

The soloist and Lemonheads frontman is because of publish his delayed e-book Rumours Of My Demise on Might 1, having first introduced the venture in 2020. Pre-order it here via Blackwell’s.

A brand new interview with Dando in The Independent famous the discharge date, with the musician additionally talking about being clear of avenue medicine for the previous two years. Dando, 57, credited this new way of life to shifting to Brazil and getting engaged.

Nevertheless, he claimed that he doesn’t think about acid to be in the identical league as different unlawful medicine. “I feel acid is OK as soon as in a blue moon,” Dando defined, revealing that he had dabbled in Polish LSD in Brazil.

He even admitted to “scamming” docs into prescribing him ADHD drugs, regardless of him not having the neurodevelopmental dysfunction.

Moreover, Dando confirmed that he has virtually completed a brand new Lemonheads album known as ‘Love Chant’. “It’s actually psychedelic and heavy after which quiet, and it’s all originals,” he stated of the file, which is able to observe on from 2019’s ‘Varshons 2’ – the Boston band’s tenth full-length effort.

Looking forward to the long run, Dando defined: “I do know that I’m a great particular person, and no matter’s going to occur to me is OK. I’m, like, actually chill.”

Elsewhere within the article, it was stated that the musician had been utilizing severe medicine since earlier than The Lemonheads started in 1986.

“I used to be utilizing as a lot as I may discover,” Dando recalled. “We had a great coke seller in our highschool.” He additionally regarded again on how he needed to attempt heroin due to Keith Richards and William Burroughs.

“I used to be in a variety of ache about my mother and father’ divorce [when he was 10],” he stated. “It was earlier than puberty. I by no means noticed my dad throughout puberty, and that fucked me up slightly bit, I’d say. I attempted to get no matter it was I wasn’t getting from my dad from folks basically [when The Lemonheads got famous], which was positively harmful.”

The Lemonheads launched two singles in late 2023 and early 2024 with ‘Worry Of Dwelling’ and ‘Seven Out’, respectively. Dando additionally touched on the group’s subsequent album when talking to Cinema Chords final month. He informed the publication that ‘Love Chant’ could be out in some unspecified time in the future in 2025.

“‘Worry of Dwelling’ will probably be on the album too,” Dando stated. “We re-did that music. We've 12 songs on that however we even have one other within the can. It’s like a misused state of affairs. I made demos for a couple of yr and a half and performed all of the drums and the whole lot in order that the band wouldn’t play it too uncooked or something.”

He added: “I introduced my band all the way down to Brazil and we recorded at this man’s studio known as Roy Cicala. He did the John Lennon data, so now we have, like, the condenser from ‘Think about’. And now we have all this nice gear, and it sounds superior.”

An official synopsis for the Rumours Of My Demise memoir reads: “After Kurt Cobain‘s passing in 1994, everybody anticipated Evan Dando to be subsequent. Rising to fame within the 90s as frontman of the Lemonheads, he was notorious for his decadent way of life, from his in depth drug-taking and partying with Keith Richards and Kate Moss to sleeping on flooring in his punk days and crashing at Johnny Depp’s home in Hollywood. However regardless of the rumours which might be continuously circulating about him, he has lived to inform the tales.

“Following a long time of the press desirous to label him and match him in a field, Rumours Of My Demise sees Dando inform his personal story. Reclaiming the innocence and enthusiasm of his early days and encapsulating the spirit of the period, this candid autobiography presents a portrait of an artist who lives wholly for his music, and one which makes no apologies for doing so.”

In 2023, Noel Gallagher spoke about an unreleased collaboration with Dando, which led to a feud between the 2 singer-songwriters. In line with Gallagher, the music was known as ‘Purple Parallelogram’ and was written through the peak of Oasis‘ fame within the ’90s.