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May 2002 28 May - Album release - My Favourite Part of You will be released in September through XIIIbis Records - now official! The deal struck between Louis and the Parisian label does not just cover his new album, but a large part of his back catalogue too, which means that many albums which were either unavailable or near-impossible to find will be re-released over the next 12 months, including a selection of rarities,outtakes and the like. Unfortunately, no progress has been made on the US front. Better news for 9th and 13th, which is now distributed in the UK, and has been licensed to L'Appareil-Photo in Japan. 28 May - Site update - May's playlist
has been added. New sections and tracks have been added to the MP3
page.
19 April - Live date - Louis, Jonathan Coe and Danny Manners will be performing 9th & 13th on Wednesday 24th April at Warwick Arts Centre in the Midlands, England (the centre is located on the Warwick University Campus). The performance starts at 7.15pm - tickets are £4.50 (£3 concessions) - you can contact the box office on 024 7652 4524 or email them for further details. 19 April - Album release - to answer the question: what's going on with My Favourite Part of You?, the contract with XIIIbis HAS BEEN FINALISED. The mastering will take place in May in Paris, by which time we'll have a definite date of release. The album will be available in every single European country (I'm told). Sorry it's taken that long. We'll keep you updated with further details as we receive them. 19 April - Site updates - April's playlist
is up. Also, some wonderful photographs of the recent 9th &
13th Paris gig have been added to the photo
gallery ... 9 April - Album release - to answer the question: what's going on with My Favourite Part of You?, the contract with XIIIbis HAS BEEN FINALISED. The mastering will take place in May in Paris, by which time we'll have a definite date of release. The album will be available in every single European country (I'm told). Sorry it's taken that long. We'll keep you updated with further details as we receive them. 9 April - Site updates - April's playlist
is up. Also, some wonderful photographs of the recent 9th &
13th Paris gig have been added to the photo
gallery ...
18 March - tickets for the preview performance of 9th & 13th can be purchased in advance from the venue (in person), or on the door. The Great Eastern Hotel is at 40 Liverpool Street, London EC2. The event is called "Electric Stew" - tickets cost £15 in advance or £20 on the night. Jonathan/Louis/Danny will be performing a 30 minute set at 11pm. Tickets also available from Dispensary: 9 Newburgh St W1; Beggars
Banquet: 20 Putney High St, SW15; Wink: 105 Great Eastern St, EC2. 9 March - Live Date - A preview performance
of 9th & 13th with Jonathan
Coe, Louis & Danny Manners will take place on 23 March 2002,
at The Great Eastern Hotel, London. The event starts at 9pm - Jonathan,
Louis and Danny are on at 11pm. Tickets in advance or on the door.
Nearest tube Liverpool Street. 9 March - Album release - 9th & 13th released in
France - available to buy online now at the French
Amazon.com site. Will be distributed in the UK by Pinnacle from
May 20 2002.
28 Feb - Site update - after so many of you requested it
- Louis' collaborations with other artists has been added to the
discography ... 27 Feb - Site update - The February playlist
- surf's up ... Downloads - 5 new MP3s added ...
17 Jan - Discography - production credits have been added for Azure, Nusch, Jackie Girl, Sunshine, Delta Kiss, Jean Renoir, Rainfall,Yuri Gagarin, Ivory Tower and Appointment with Venus. 14 Jan - Site update - Lyrics have been added for Delta Kiss, Jean Renoir, and Nusch. 10 Jan - Site update - Lyrics have been added for Yuri Gagarin, Jackie Girl and Rainfall. More to come soon ... 6 Jan - Live Date - Louis Philippe will perform on
the 22nd of February at "La Poudriere" in Belfort (Eastern
France). Louis - accompanied by Danny Manners on piano - has been
invited to the venue's "Songwriter's weekend" and will
share the bill with Bristol-based Morning Star. Tickets will
be available at the venue, whose doors will open at 20:30.
19 Nov - Site update - Lyrics have been added for Azure and Sunshine. More will follow over the next few weeks ... 13 Nov - The big news - apart from the re-launch of this site - is that Louis has now completed his first album of original songs since Azure, which was released over two years ago. Provisionally entitled My Favourite Part of You, this new record - entirely sung in English - consists of 11 tracks(*see below) which were recorded in a little over two weeks in the summer at Louis' pet studio, the Sound Suite in Camden. * My Favourite Part of You; Ruby Blue; True Love; Seven Years; A face in the Crowd; I Need It; Cicely; Great Bear; Before the Rain; Boxing Clever; Lucia The usual suspects had gathered in NW1 to flesh out Louis' arrangements: Danny Manners, of course, who left his double-bass at home to concentrate on piano and keyboard parts; David Longdon (acoustic guitar & backing vocals); Andy Lymn (drums); Dave Gregory (electric guitar); the Covent Garden String Ensemble - an octet on this occasion; Count Indigo, Sean O'Hagan and Cathal Coughlan (backing vocals); Bosco de Oliveira (percussion); Paul Jayasinha (flugelhorn) and Martin Owen (french horn). The only newcomer was John McKenzie on the electric bass, a veteran of Bob Dylan tours and too many sessions to mention. Richard Preston took care of the desk, as has always been the case since his reunion with Louis four years ago - Richard was of course the "house producer" on 99% of the él releases... So when and how will it be available? In the new year, probably through this site first! And what does it sound like? Expect a poppy album, Azure minus the symphony orchestra, with probably the best ensemble playing on any Louis Philippe record so far. My Favourite Part of You sounds tight, quite groovy in places, with many memorable melodies (Seven Years is a favourite of Bertrand Burgalat), and a sense of focus which is unmatched on any other of Louis' releases bar - perhaps - Rainfall. This new album is also notable for another step in the Louis Philippe/Jonathan Coe collaboration. Novelist Jonathan Coe, author of The House of Sleep, What a Carve-up! and The Rotters' Club, has of course been a big fan of Louis since the very beginning, and penned 3 of the album's 11 lyrics: Seven Years, Great Bear and Before the Rain...to which Louis replied by making one of the Rotters' Club's heroines the subject of one of his own songs, Cicely. For more on this incestuous relationship, pay a visit to the Tricatel website , which will release (January/February 2002 - France/UK) another Louis/Jonathan Coe/Danny Manners album, 9th & 13th - a collection of musical settings of Coe's texts, plus some specially re-recorded Louis Philippe songs selected by the novelist for their serendipitous thematic kinship with his own oeuvre... On the gig side, after a sold-out appearance at the Spitz, London, last spring, Louis is planning a return match in the same venue in the months to come. French fans, and anyone who fancies a trip to Paris, should note that a special gig (Poulenc melodies, Coe readings and a couple of surprises) is planned for mid-Febuary ay the Cite de la Musique, to coincide with the release of 9th & 13th by Tricatel. Another gig could take place at the same time in Brussels... Since we last met: Hotel Dyonisos, a classical guitar instrumental taken from the Sunshine album was chosen by HSBC bank to provide a bit of weltschmerz to one of its ads on UK television...Louis also penned the title music for two Channel 4 programmes, Millennium Minds and Dumb and Dumber... Other releases: Louis contributes his own version of Viens
(a song he'd written for Leila Amezian's Initial album) to
the Soiree Cocktail compilation, a collection of bossa-influenced
tunes first put out by les Disques Aquatic in France, then by l'Appareil-Photo
in Japan (cat. no. bis 09)...A very spaced-out (and very successful)
version of I'm Only Sleeping (yes, the John Lennon song)
will be included in a soon-to-be released compilation devised by
Italian label S.H.A.D.O. Records...This news section will soon be
updated with details of a couple of albums by HaLo
(a young Japanese singer who assembled an incredible cast of collaborators
for these projects) that Louis has had a big hand in making - contributing
two original songs and half-a-dozen arrangements to these efforts,
entitled Blue and Yellow. Watch this space. 11 Nov - Welcome back to Sunshine ... |
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