French Possession: News

Archie saves the world / Swallowed up whole will be officially released in January 2010. The plan, if money allows, will be to record the following tracks as early in the year as possible:

Dedication
Deal with me
You never write
Forgetting to breathe

These tracks would all be considered for release as singles on the 'Forgetting to breathe' album, which hopefully will be released in the first half of 2010. The likely first single would be a double A side - Forgetting to breathe / You never write - which would unquestionably be FP's most significant release to date.

It's all change again. Steve and the Kiddie have co-written a very catchy tune, titled as above, which will be recorded in September. If this proves to be as good as we think it will be, it will be released in mid-October as FP's third single and Archie will become the title track of our second album. Tracklist for 'Archie saves the world':

1) Archie saves the world; 2) Ten years; 3) Dedication; 4) The Courtneys of Ballantry; 5) Swallowed up whole; 6) Where were you Sunday?; 7) Ginny; 8) You never write; 9) Something new; 10) Deal with me; 11) Nothing else applies 12) Waves

Keep in touch - we're getting there but ... things change. Experience can taint your point of view ;)

Please visit the "Music" section to hear "Archie saves the world" and B side, "Swallowed up whole". Archie will be released on July 27 2009. We have high hopes (as always!)

It's been a while ...

Just to let you know where we are, we have postponed further work on the album, due to various logistical problems, plus the odd financial constraint ... or two.

However, we will record and release a new single in time for summer. Unsurprisingly, it's entitled 'Archie saves the world' and we think it just might be the one. If it flies, the album will surely follow.

And on that album, Steve Jones's masterpiece, written earlier this year and, for sure, the follow up single: 'Deal with me'.

With other major songs, including 'Swallowed up whole', 'Dedication' and 'What we do', this will undoubtedly be FP's finest hour ... but it all depends on Archie ... and where he sleeps tonight ... trust me, this will make sense eventually ... :)

French Possession are meeting up at their old haunt - Resident Studios - to do some further work on 2 key tracks from their forthcoming album, "Forgetting to breathe". The session is booked for Jan 3rd/4th.

The tracks - "Dedication" and opening track, "In your car" could well be released as a double A-side pretty soon, if the session goes well. Steve, Bruno and Briony will be working hard on some fairly complicated vocal stuff for "Dedication".

Here's a song to thank you for the memories ... :)

"What does Christmas do?" is out now!!!

Click on "Buy" to download from iTunes, HMV or 7Digital ... or buy the CD from CD Baby.

Yes ... it's very soon going to be 'that time' again. Unsurprisingly, our cult festive hit of last year is to be re-released ('cult' = not enough people bought it ...)

Amazingly, it's still tops the Playlist Charts at Matchbox Recordings, having dropped to the ignominious position of No 2 for a short while during the year. Mr Olivier - owner of said company and a very fine fellow indeed - has promised to make it available for download via HMV, Woolworth's and all sorts of interesting places, so anything's possible ... ;-)

Release date is set for December 1st, so if you're not left feeling blue and don't have better things to do, maybe it's a date your looking forward to (Ed - an unfunny series of references to lines in the chorus of aforementioned song ... sorry).

The Courtneys of Ballantry has won third prize in the FlightSafe Music QuickLaunch Song Contest !!!!

FlightSafe Music is a California-based Music Publisher, specialising in music for film and television. Besides a bit of dosh and some other prizes, we will feature on their website from November 15, with a link to our music. Great News !!!!

Our new album has received a name change. Amber Green will now be our third album. Our second release will be Forgetting to breathe. The final tracklisting is:

1. In your car
2. Swallowed up whole
3. Dedication
4. What we do
5. By the way
6. Diva
7. The Courtneys of Ballantry
8. Living again
9. Ginny
10. With every move you make
11. Nothing else applies
12. Waves

It will be released by Matchbox Recordings in March 2009

Sorry about this but artistc temprement and recording delays, along with new, improved tunes being written on a more or less daily basis, means that the 'Amber Green' tracklist hasn't quite been bedded down. So far, we have lost 'Two days before Wednesday', 'Something new' and 'What girl' - all good songs (check 'SN' out on the site) - but now not good enough for what is turning out to be a potentially classic album. Latest list:

Amber Green

Living again

Swallowed up whole

Dedication (juwanna dance?)

By the way

Ginny

The Courtneys of Ballantry

With every move you make

That song

Controlled emotion (Featuring Briony Ace)

Nothing else applies

Takeaway

The opening single has yet to be decided, though is definiteley between 2 tracks. The most likely is 'Dedication (Juwanna dance?)', purely and simply because it's an obvious single. However, 'By the way' is a perfectly constructed, country-folk masterpiece and may well be selected purely on its class. We hope to preview demo versions of 3 tunes here by the end of June - the 2 already mentioned plus 'Swallowed up whole'. Then we may seek feedback. Keep smiling!

Well the kids are all fed and the plates are all clean
There's a hole in his head but he's not what he's been
Was it something he said; was it something obscene?
Why do the lights stay red on Amber Green?

A new album will be released in August 2008. A single - consisting of Steve Jones's best song to date, "Swallowed up whole" and his most commercial, "Dedication (juwanna dance)" - will be released a couple of weeks earlier.

This is very, very exciting stuff. Produced by Stevie "fancy a cappuccino?" Williams and featuring 2 lead vocals from Briony Ace, it begins and ends with songs of epic proportions and is filled throughout the middle with FP at their very best. Watch out for Briony's "Controlled emotion"; the 3 minute pop masterpiece "That song"; the Beatle-esque "With every move you make"; the title track, as lyrically complex as Steve has ever been and, hopefully if the recording goes well, the pièce de résistance - the album closer - "Takeaway".

Stay tuned here and we'll preview the tracks when they're nearly ready. Oops, nearly forgot to mention the saddest song on the album ..."What girl?" There really is too much to look forward to here ...

Now available in Music Section ... check it out.

Stop press: the first ever Christmas single on Matchbox Recordings will be French Possession's 'What does Christmas do?'
Dale Olivier, Director/Head of Music/A&R at Matchbox describes it as "major label material" and "seriously classic".
It will be available to listen to on this site and www.myspace.com/frenchpossession tomorrow.

Check Out the FP coverage on Matchbox Recordings Website:

http://www.matchboxrecordings.co.uk/artists/frenchpossession

For the duration of the Triple A Release, we will be concentrating our efforts on MySpace. Please feel free to join our friends there. Go to:

http://www.myspace.com/frenchpossession

'Nothing else applies' has been nominated for Best International Song at the Ontario Independent Music awards to be held in Toronto next month.

http://www.ontarioindependentmusicawards.com/nominees.htm

Triple A is now available from a multitude of establishments: from iTunes to Amazon;from CD Baby to Matchbox CD Store. Time for another beer methinks - you're buying!!!

Despite not quite making Triple A, 'Something New' is going down well down under:

ISON LIVE RADIO INTERNATIONAL NETWORK - PLAYLIST REPORT
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PROGRAM : World Indie Top 40 Countdown
WEEK : 23
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01. "today" - dee girard (manu cornuta records)
02. "something new" - french possession (french possession)
03. "life cycles" - ricochet (rampant records)

'The Courtneys of Ballantry' and 'Nothing else applies' have now been added to the iRadio LA playlist, thereby ensuring that Triple A has crossed the pond ...

At last us laggards have given in: we've all bought iPods and now we are at long last on MySpace. All for the sake of Triple A! Check it out:
http://www.myspace.com/frenchpossession

iRadio LA has selected "Ginny" for their current playlist rotation. Check it out here:
http://www.iradiola.com

Final mastering took place last night. The files will be sent to Matchbox tomorrow and a release date will be announced in due course. For now, please visit the music section and listen to Triple A.

French Possession's first ever single - Triple A - will be released on the Matchbox Recordings label. As advertised in this week's NME, the single will be released in the summer: possibly June but more likely July. Next week's recording session at Resident will be to finish off 'Ginny' and record the the opening track: 'Nothing else applies'. Check out this site or www.matchboxrecordings.co.uk to hear all 3 tunes from May 7th 2007.

French Possession will release their first single in June 2007. As previously promised, it will be a Triple A-side, comprising the following tracks:

1 Nothing else applies
2 The Courtneys of Ballantry
3 Ginny

Recording will be completed at the end of April with the final mix and mastering in May. It will retail at the ridiculously low price of £1.99 in the UK ($3.99 in the US).

More soon ...

In order to check that our new stuff is still ok, we submitted our last 2 tracks - 'The Courtneys of Ballantry' and 'Ginny' - to the Internationally renowned Singer / Songwriter Awards. BOTH tracks received an honourable mention, with the following explanation:

Artists with Honourable Mentions are those that the judges could not agree on and, therefore, had to be listened to several times and submitted for multiple listening pools. We award you with an Honourable Mention because, ultimately, your submission was very strong.

We should have won, of course, but it's still nice to be appreciated :-).