- Wed, 2011-09-21 16:51
Kingstonian indie-rockers Tubelord are gearing up to release their second album, R O M A N C E, which sees them expand from a trio to a quartet. As well as adding synths and keyboards to their sound, lead-singer Joseph Prendergast has decided to take a fresh approach to lyrics, replacing his own words with those of female poets. He explains it thus:
“The medium of song, at first, was a vehicle for my personal immediate emotion. A way to represent the tangible relationships I had felt with others, capturing moments worth remembering and not wanting these fragments to be lost and forgotten. Yet at the same time, what worth is my depiction of events over another person’s?”
“Questioning the purpose of my own writing, 'I' decided to disappear instead of clarifying my very being in the form of song. However, ‘I’ am content with appearing as a reader as opposed to being a writer. ‘I’ cannot claim to be a writer, so ‘I’ therefore chose to attempt to stay true to my belief of existing as a reader and drew from the limited pool of words found in the tidy boxes of poetry. Poetry written by the opposite sex. Not a sausage in sight. Listen to the songs and 'I' am not there, the songs are not me, they belong to no one, in the same way words cannot belong to an individual, they are multitudinous device used to portray context.”
“There is no spell check in physical, tangible reality, just mistakes and accidental revelations. This is my message ≈ the message is meaningless.”
Quite so old boy, quite so. The album's lead single is My First Castle, released on October 3rd on cassette and digitally. The band tour the UK in October 2011: check www.asktubelord.com for details.
