{"id":8433,"date":"2019-09-20T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2019-09-19T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:03:52","slug":"grand-slam-release-new-video-for-gone-are-the-days-off-the-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8433","title":{"rendered":"Grand Slam release new video for ‘Gone Are The Days’ off the debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debut Studio Album\u00a0\u201cHit The Ground\u201d
\nReleased 22nd\u00a0<\/sup>November 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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First single from the album\u00a0\u201cGone Are The Days\u201d\u00a0Released 6th September 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Back in the post Thin Lizzy days, Laurence Archer wrote and performed with Phil Lynott as Grand Slam. Sadly, Grand Slam was cut short in its prime, with Phil Lynott\u2019s untimely death leaving a hole in the fabric of rock music to this day.<\/p>\n

Laurence went on to make his name playing with UFO but always nurtured a long-term plan to rebuild the Grand Slam machine. And here it is \u2014 primed and ready.<\/p>\n

The new band (Laurence alongside Mike Dyer, Benjy Reid and Dave Boyce) honours the traditions of the band\u2019s history whilst also looking to the future \u2014 classic tracks co-written by Lynott and Archer sit alongside a set of brand new songs that embody the same ethos of freedom, positivity and adrenalin that ran through Grand Slam in 1984.As such fans will get to hear Lynott co-writes alongside brand new material from a very special band steeped in rock history.<\/p>\n

Laurence Archer says.\u00a0\u201c<\/em><\/strong>I\u2019ve been thinking about this moment for many years and I\u2019m so proud of what we, the new Grand Slam, have achieved, \u201cGone Are The Days\u201d is the most obvious choice for the first release – it\u2019s a song I originally wrote in the late 80\u2019s but with the band we have captured all the new and the heritage elements of Grand Slam and my writing. Grand Slam are back and here to stay.<\/em><\/strong>
\nObviously at times like this Phil is never far from my thoughts, a friend and a mentor and a hero always.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n