French Possession: News

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 :-).

Resident is booked again at the end of April to record our first muder mystery epic, 'Nothing else applies'. Remember ... it's your life; turn it round. (I worry about myself sometimes.)

Hopefully, if there's time, we will finally finish 'Ginny', which, despite its current level of incompleteness, is receiving a great deal of positive feedback from those who have heard it.

Here we go 2,3,4 ... for your delectation and delight, pop over to the Music section and listen to the first mix of The Courtneys of Ballantry. Also, you will find a much more soulful version of Ginny - mainly due it being sung by a proper singer for a change.

ISON LIVE RADIO INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
PROGRAM : World Indie Top 40 Countdown
WEEK : 4
01. "a better place" - anthony nieves
02. "monster surf party" - the barbarellatones
03. "wear and tear" - french possession

French Possession have booked Resident for some more recording in February. They hope to finish work on 'Ginny' and begin work on 2 brand new tunes: 'That Song' and 'The Courtneys of Ballantry', which thus far is a strong contender for title track of Album #2.