Eddy Says

Eddy Says: Ups. And also downs.

By | Published on Monday 24 May 2010

Eddy Temple Morris

It’s been a really mixed week. A couple of crushingly disappointing things happened, but one or two utterly ace things balanced that out. And the weather? Jesus, Clapham Common is astonishing when the weather is good. It seems like the kind of place you’d take a picture of to wave under the nose of a wannabe suicide bomber, saying, “This is what you’ll get if you do what we ask, this is heaven my brother, you will be here as soon as you push this button”.

The week started badly. I’d been waiting for an album I’ve been looking forward to for literally years, by an artist I was the first to play and who I have been bigging up here and in my DJ Mag column for ages. It was such a crushing disappointment, so mediocre, that I almost wept with the frustration of unrealised potential. I’m not saying who it is, because I genuinely like the guy and want him to do well, and more people read this than some established dance music magazines. So let’s just chalk that one down to bad A&R and hope he gives us something as good as his amazing remixes next time he makes an album.

Meanwhile, somebody at the Latitude Festival got hold of some Losers tunes from our skillful and fabulously hot drummer Camilla, and loved them so much that we got booked to headline a stage there. Now this is awesome news, I’ve heard so many good things about Latitude from friends, colleagues and fans alike. “A huge Secret Garden Party with more trees” was perhaps the most intriguing review. So, we’re playing at midnight on Friday in an arena that’s in a forest, I’m told. We could all literally explode with excitement over this.

We’re almost at a position where we can announce the release date for, and the label that will be putting out, the Losers album and a couple more singles. I’m hoping that the next time I put digit to keyboard for you, it will be with a grin the size of Liverpool.

Finally, a huge sorry to those who came to see us at X-Posure live, only for us to be cut off at the last song by some tool of an in-house sound guy who wasn’t able to communicate properly. John will play a track or two on his show, so at least we have that to look forward to.

Sorry it’s such a short one this week and it doesn’t really say much. Truth is I’m about to go pick up my boy from school and I want to go play Frisbee with him and have a barbeque together for early dinner.

Til next week, eat lots of British asparagus, not that Peruvian muck that makes your wee goes fluorescent green. And cook on coals wherever possible. And, in the words of Bill S Preston and Theodore Logan, be ‘excellent’ to each other.

Much love,
eddy X

Eddy Says from this edition of the CMU Remix Update.



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