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You Am I will bring album number ten to Newcastle this weekend.
YOU AM I STILL SOUND AS EVER Hot Sauce dropping last week, there’s still more than enough life left in this band yet. “It’s definitely all systems go with us at the moment, with the tour kicking off and the album out, but honestly we haven’t really had much of a chance to step back and reflect on it all yet because it was such a quick turnaround,” guitarist Davey Lane told Newcastle Weekly. Recorded in Daptone Studios in New York, Porridge and Hot Sauce is literally chock-a-block full of analogue-soaked, punchy rock and roll swagger – proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this is one band never content to rest on any revisionist laurels and Lane said that it was possibly the quickest turnaround on a You Am I record, to date. “In the space of around three weeks we had picked out all of the songs and we spent around two days in rehearsal and we didn’t go through the process of recording endless demos. I guess we left a lot to spontaneity for this record and it really kept us on our toes.” One of the factors that helped foster this ‘by-the-seat-of-thepants’ approach, Lane said, was the fact that the band played a few sneaky London shows
with US kings of ‘winging it’ The Replacements. “Yeah, seeing the way those guys play on stage, is a real inspiration,” Lane said. “We’re all massive fans of the band and I can tell you that there were a few tears of joy shed when they walked out. “We only had about three weeks notice before the shows and had to basically move mountains to make it happen, but they are one band you’d definitely do that for.” While over the course of their ten-album career, records like Hi Fi Way, Sound as Ever and Number 4 Record have become part of the Oz rock and roll canon, it is in the live arena where You Am I really soar – even on an off night these guys are still one of the most formidable acts in the country. Lane added that this modicum of spontaneity in the studio would only fuel the live show. “Yeah the songs have only been kicking around for a couple of months and there’s some there that we’ve only played around six or seven times from start to finish so they’re almost as fresh for us as they will be for you guys.” You Am I - Cambridge Hotel – Saturday 14 November. Porridge and Hot Sauce is out now - Stephen Bisset
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ou Am I may’ve become part of the furniture on the Oz rock scene, but with album number ten, Porridge and
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