Former Shed Seven drummer Alan Leach proclaims debut solo album

Former Shed Seven drummer Alan Leach has introduced particulars of his debut solo album – hearken to first single ‘Clouds Behind The Moon’ under.

The album, titled ‘I Want I Knew Now What I Thought I Knew Then’, will come out on November 4 and was engineered and combined by Embrace keys participant Mickey Dale.

Discussing the album in a press release, Leach mentioned: “Till I wasn’t in Shed Seven any extra, I didn’t realise simply how a lot I used to be prepared for a break and up for attempting one thing totally different.

I’ve had quite a lot of these songs buzzing round my head for years, however band life can tie up quite a lot of your energies, so till now, I by no means received round to doing something with them.

“As that is my debut album, I felt like I had a totally clean canvas, so I simply threw stuff at it and hoped for the perfect. Romantic storytelling appears to be the place I’m at my most snug writing lyrics, however that hasn’t stopped me from making an attempt to place the world to rights on a few songs.”

He added: “Singing has been the massive problem. I went into the studio aiming for the plush northern tones of Jarvis Cocker, Alex Turner, Ian Brown and Richard Hawley, conceding that if the completed product didn’t sound like Frank Sidebottom, then I’d have accomplished okay.”

Take heed to ‘Clouds Behind The Moon’ and see the tracklist for ‘I Want I Knew Now What I Thought I Knew Then’ under.

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1. ‘A Dozen Of Me’
2. ‘Clouds Behind The Moon’
3. ‘Erica’
4. ‘Going For A Tune’
5. ‘The One Love Technology’
6. ‘If This Comes Off’ (that includes Hayley Hutchinson)
7. ‘Anthem For The Right here And Now’
8. ‘Issues Like This’
9. ‘Clouds Behind The Moon’ (orchestral model)

On December 2 and three, Leach will current the album at two gigs at York venue The Crescent. You can buy tickets here.

Again in 2020, Shed Seven raised a chuckle on social media when the Britpop stalwarts have been mistaken for shed producers by Twitter customers.

“@shedseven why don’t you reply your telephones?” one consumer wrote to the band on Twitter. “I’ve tried with out success to contact you for weeks because you did not instal my shed on 24Nov!” she added, with an additional hashtag: “#crapcustomerservice.”

The band’s songwriter Rick Witter responded: “That is sensible Jo, once we get again to gigging we formally invite you +1 on the visitor record to a gig of your selecting to make it as much as you….” to which the tweeter replied: “That might be so significantly better than having you come and erect my shed!”