The Thrills

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Op woensdag 26 april 2006 14:41 schreef pfaf het volgende:
Aaah, goede kick. Al iets vrijgegeven of gelekt?

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Op woensdag 26 april 2006 14:43 schreef Croupouque het volgende:

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Nee, niets daarvan! Ze zitten zelfs nog in de studio.

Dus zo'n goede kick is het eigenlijk helemaal niet. Eigenlijk is het meer een reden om met dit mooie weer mijn Thrills-cd's voor de 134556e keer te draaien.

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We had our last rehearsal at the weekend. It was a bit emotional considering we've been working on this record for quite a while. We start recording next week in Vancouver. Originally it was going to be Dublin but we couldn't get the studio we wanted for the dates we wanted.

We're all looking forward to working with Tony Hoffer again. There's almost twenty songs to fight over. It's a large figure for us. In the past we only ever had thirteen or fourteen songs to go into the studio with. In fact the dreaded "double album" was even mentioned for a fleeting moment (and thankfully dismissed just as quickly).
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We have a title for the record already in mind. (In the past we always found ourselves scrambling like headless chickens for a title that would somehow sum up the mood of the album with deadlines nipping at our heels.) This meant we could meet the art department in London to start brainstorming early over artwork and the record sleeve. We've always beeen heavily involved in this. Sometimes even to our detriment. I still get death threats over the last album cover.
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Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2006 12:46 schreef Afunados het volgende:


En dan hopelijk optreden in de buurt

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2006 17:00 schreef Jurrio het volgende:
Vette band!
Heerlijk voor in de auto en meezingen.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007
NEW UPDATE / ALBUM NEWS - FEBRUARY 19TH 2007

We met Danny O' Connor and Karen Craig while been courted by our soon-to-be publishing company at a Coldplay gig in London four and a half years ago. They were setting up a new company called Document. They were going to produce documentaries about music and bands they liked. And they did. From John Lydon to the fictional members of Gorillaz to Howard Marks. And they said they'd like to make one about us. We quickly became good friends. Having them around was hardly a chore the way having camera in your face can often be. As a result I think they caught a lot of candid and intimate footage.

For the next four years whenever we were doing something vaguely noteworthy they tagged along. There was no grand plan at this point. Five months ago as our new album was beginning to come together, Danny and Karen felt it was time to go through the footage and see what they had. Alan, our manager, went cap in hand to Virgin Records and to our pleasant surprise they were willing to commission Danny and Karen to make a documentary. As of today, the documentary is still untitled and in the very final stages of editing. I think it should be finished and titled by this Tuesday. In keeping with everything else we do it's all going down to the very last line! It's going to be screened this Friday as part of the Dublin Film Festival. Which we are all understandably excited and apprehensive about. I think it will be an honest account of the ups and down of life in band that obviously still feels it has so much to prove.

Our new album is going to come out early this summer. We are still applying the finishing touches. A healthy proportion of our friends and acquaintances are screaming at us to just put it out. Perhaps we are losing our minds! And being obsessive! But we're so close to making the album we always wanted to make. Nick, our A&R man, has gallantly stood by us through thick and thin. Sometimes these things take time.

Conor

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Op woensdag 26 april 2006 14:32 schreef Croupouque het volgende:
Leve de zoekfunctie!
Het is hoog tijd voor een topickick, want het nieuwe album van The Thrills zit er aan te komen.. dat belooft weer een hele mooie zomer te worden.

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We have finally finished our album! We recorded a total of 30 songs. Over the course of three different sessions. There's been much haggling over tracklisting this week in that time-honoured way. There were a lot of songs to leave off. We have whittled it down to 11 tracks.

We just returned from Paris. We did a photo shoot in Dublin some months ago for the album but a shot that felt right for the cover eluded us. So Max Dodson, whisked us off to Paris for a few days to get "one more roll'. (...) We caught up with Phillipe Ascoli who set up Source Records and was in charge of Virgin UK when we signed. He took us out to dinner and encouraged Ben and Daniel to order the steak tartare which is essentially ground raw beef. The gauntlet was truly thrown down when Ben "Iron Stomach' Carrigan washed this down with a serving of oysters. The following day two members of this band were sick as dogs and sporting pale complexions after a sleepless night. If we look a little Goth on the album cover, rest assured it was not intentional.

We commissioned Andrew Vickery, an English artist who lives in Dublin to do some paintings for the sleeve of the album. I have only seen one so far. It's of The Pepper Canister Church in Dublin at night. It looks beautiful.

It had seemed we tried our best to avoid LA for this record. However due to Tony Hoffer's busy schedule we had to relent for some final mixing and recording late last month. I can't pretend a bit of sunshine wasn't nice after a long, cold year in Ireland.