{"id":22739,"date":"2023-07-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22739"},"modified":"2023-07-10T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:05:53","slug":"teenage-fanclub-releases-new-single-tired-of-being-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22739","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Fanclub releases new single &#8216;Tired Of Being Alone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>NEW ALBUM:<br>&#8216;NOTHING LASTS FOREVER&#8217;<br>OUT 22 SEPTEMBER VIA THEIR OWN LABEL PEMA<br><br>+ UK LIVE DATES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Earlier this year\u00a0Teenage Fanclub\u00a0announced news of their new album &#8216;Nothing Lasts Forever&#8217;, due out\u00a022nd September\u00a0via their own label PeMa.<br><br>Having previously shared the lead track\u00a0<em>\u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=cabb20fb6a&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Land<\/a>\u201d<\/em>, today they release their new single and album highlight,\u00a0\u201cTired Of Being Alone\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teenage Fanclub - Tired Of Being Alone\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JYu7FiYLWqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the track&nbsp;<strong>Raymond McGinley<\/strong>&nbsp;says:&nbsp;<em>\u201cTowards the end of our session in Rockfield Studios making the album I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a guitar next to the bed. I picked it up and this song came out. The words for the chorus were there already. I recorded a rough version on my phone and then went back to sleep. We recorded the song later that day. As a band we like to trust our instincts and let things happen. As with Norman\u2019s song&nbsp;\u2018Foreign Land\u2019&nbsp;this song only exists because we decided to go to the studio and make a record. If we\u2019d waited for the stars to align first before recording we\u2019d still be waiting now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first sound you hear on &#8216;<strong>Nothing Lasts Forever&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0is a sustained feedback note that hangs in the air with the grace of a dragonfly before an acoustic riff spirals out of it, soaring upwards. It\u2019s blissful and sun-soaked, like a late summer haze blurring out all the details on the horizon. When voices join the music, they arrive perfectly locked together, honed in on a single melody. \u201c<em>It\u2019s time to move along \/ and leave the past behind me\u2026<\/em>\u201d The message is simple. Don\u2019t look back, only forward.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mail-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><br>One of the recurring themes on &#8216;<strong>Nothing Lasts Forever&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0is light, as a both a metaphor for hope and as an ultimate destination further down the road. Although the band\u2019s songwriters\u00a0<strong>Norman Blake<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Raymond McGinley\u00a0<\/strong>found themselves touching on similar themes, it was pure coincidence.<br><br><strong>Raymond<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>\u201cWe never talk about what we\u2019re going to do before we start making a record. We don\u2019t plan much other than the nuts and bolts of where we\u2019re going to record and when. That thing about light was completely accidental; we didn\u2019t realise that until we\u2019d finished half the songs. The record feels reflective, and I think the more we do this thing, the more we become comfortable with going to that place of melancholy, feeling and expressing those feelings.&#8221;<\/em><br><br><strong>Norman<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>\u201cThese songs are definitely personal. You\u2019re getting older, you\u2019re going into the cupboard getting the black suit out more often. Thoughts of mortality and the idea of the light must have been playing on our minds a lot. The songs on the last record were influenced by the breakup of my marriage. It was cathartic to write those songs. These new songs are reflective of how I\u2019m feeling now, coming out of that period. They\u2019re fairly optimistic, there\u2019s an acceptance of a situation and all of the experience that comes with that acceptance. When we write, it\u2019s a reflection of our lives, which are pretty ordinary. We\u2019re not extraordinary people, and normal people get older. There\u2019s a lot to write about in the mundane. I love reading Raymond Carver. Very often there\u2019s not a lot that happens in those stories, but they speak to lived experience.\u201d<\/em><br><br>While the vocals and the finishing touches on &#8216;<strong>Nothing Lasts Forever&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0were recorded at Raymond\u2019s place in Glasgow, the music was recorded in an intense ten-day period in the bucolic Welsh countryside at\u00a0<strong>Rockfield Studios<\/strong>, near Monmouth in late August. You can hear the effect of that environment on the record &#8211; it\u2019s full of soft breeze, wide skies, beauty and space.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Raymond<\/strong>: \u201c<em>We like to get something out of where we go, and you can definitely hear a stamp of Rockfield on the record. We recorded our album\u00a0Howdy\u00a0there in the late \u201990s. Prior to that I\u2019d been a bit reluctant to go as everyone seemed to record there, especially if you were signed to Creation, but I thought I\u2019d go and have a look at the place. When I went down there, I loved the fact that there\u2019s no memorabilia about anyone who\u2019s ever been in the studio. The only visual musical reference is a picture of Joe Meek on their office wall. Anyway, over twenty years after our first visit we decided to go back. When you\u2019re there, it feels like your place.\u00a0We\u2019re really rubbish at trying to find words to describe how our music sounds, but maybe because we recorded in Rockfield in late summer, there\u2019s something\u00a0pastoral\u00a0about the record.\u201d<\/em><br><br>The band that recorded &#8216;Nothing Lasts Forever&#8217;<em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Blake, McGinley along with\u00a0<strong>Francis Macdonald\u00a0<\/strong>on drums,\u00a0<strong>Dave McGowan<\/strong>\u00a0on bass and\u00a0<strong>Euros Childs<\/strong>\u00a0on keyboards &#8211; arrived at the residential studio without a fixed plan. Their confidence and ease with working together meant the record came together incredibly quickly.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Raymond<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>\u201cWhen we got offered ten days in Rockfield, we weren\u2019t ready in our minds but then we just thought, \u2018Fuck it\u2019 and went for it. If you\u2019re sitting around waiting for the stars to align, you can end up never doing anything. We turned up and worked our way through ideas, and came up with some while we were there. The song\u00a0Foreign Land\u00a0was born in the studio. If we hadn\u2019t gone there at that point through happenstance, that song wouldn\u2019t exist. We like to let things happen. As people, we find a deadline inspiring. We like to put ourselves on the spot and see what happens. We usually get away with it. This record is the cliche of the blank canvas, which thankfully we managed to fill.\u201d<\/em><br><br><strong>Norman<\/strong><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve all been playing together for such a long time. In the past, whoever had written the song would have been the director. \u2018This is how I\u2019m hearing the drums, if you could play the bass like this\u2026\u2019 We don\u2019t do that now. Raymond or myself would just bring in the idea and people would listen and play what works with it. We\u2019d play for a couple of hours and that would be the arrangement. There\u2019s a trust that comes from knowing each other such a long time, a kind of telepathy. Everyone knows where they fit in the puzzle.\u201d<\/em><br><br>One of the most striking lyrics on the record is on the closing track &#8220;<strong>I Will Love You<\/strong>&#8220;. A gorgeous seven minute almost Kosmiche acoustic daydream drone, it looks to a point beyond the fury and polarisation of our modern discourse, to a time when\u00a0<em>\u201cthe bigots are gone\/after they apologise\/for all the harm that they\u2019ve done\u201d.<\/em><br><br><strong>Raymond<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c<em>In many ways, us-and-them-ism has taken over the world. &#8220;I Will Love You&#8221;\u00a0is looking for positivity but it\u2019s being totally fatalistic at the same time. This shit will exist forever, what are you going to do about it. I came up with the line \u201cI will love you\/until the flags are put down\/and the exceptionalists are buried under the ground\u201d while I was playing the guitar. I started wondering what that was all about and where it might go. It\u2019s looking for positives within a fatalistic, negative view of human nature.\u201d<\/em><br><br>Looking for positives while faced with the grim realities of the 21st century feels very\u00a0<strong>Teenage Fanclub\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; a band who\u2019ve been a force for good for over three decades and who can effortlessly turn melancholy into glorious, chiming harmony.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TEENAGE FANCLUB UK TOUR 2023<\/strong><br>03 November \u2013 Belfast &#8211; Queen&#8217;s University &#8211; Mandela Hall<br>05 November &#8211; Glasgow &#8211; Tramway Theatre<br>06 November &#8211; Aberdeen &#8211; Tivoli Theatre<br>07 November &#8211; Edinburgh &#8211; Assembly Rooms<br>08 November \u2013 Leeds &#8211; Brudenell<br>09 November &#8211; Gateshead &#8211; Sage Hall 2<br>11 November &#8211; Manchester &#8211; RNCM Theatre<br>12 November &#8211; Sheffield &#8211; Leadmill<br>13 November &#8211; Bath &#8211; Komedia<br>14 November &#8211; Birmingham &#8211; Town Hall<br>17 November &#8211; London &#8211; EartH<br>18 November \u2013 London \u2013 EartH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(All venues seated except Leeds)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FOR MORE INFORMATION<\/strong><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=aeac79023b&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=6ddf0206a3&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sonicpr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=22b8cece1ceb580aeae1d78f3&amp;id=b9825e89d0&amp;e=d9ea72d2b6\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ALBUM:&#8216;NOTHING LASTS FOREVER&#8217;OUT 22 SEPTEMBER VIA THEIR OWN LABEL PEMA + UK LIVE DATES Earlier this year\u00a0Teenage Fanclub\u00a0announced news of their new album &#8216;Nothing Lasts Forever&#8217;, due out\u00a022nd September\u00a0via their own label PeMa. Having previously shared the lead track\u00a0\u201cForeign Land\u201d, today they release their new single and album highlight,\u00a0\u201cTired Of Being Alone\u201d. 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