about to enter the studio

July 10th, 2004

Fawcett/Poustie are now just a couple of weeks away from entering the studio to complete work on their as yet-untitled 12th studio album.

Poustie will fly to England on Thursday 15th July and will meet up with Fawcett on the weekend of 24th-25th of July at the legendary Coach House studios in Cheshire where the band is once again working with legendary saxman, Richard "Harvey" Flood.

This will be the third FP album in a row that the veteran jazz player will have contributed to, having first played on Syncopated Man (The Richie Flood Story) from the Here on Business album in 2000, as well as on Time To Start Again, Just a Little Bit and This is It from the album of the same name in 2003.

Fawcettpoustie.com has been tirelessly trying to contact  Flood for confirmation of his participation, but sadly the elusive Flood has so far declined our requests for interviews.

As earlier rumoured on FP.com it has now been officially announced by Bally Rotter Records, that the new album will indeed feature 12 new tracks and not 10 as previously  understood.

The two final tracks to enter the picture are  a Fawcett quasi-epic Return To Mars and a cover version of Cheap Trick's 1985 song Standing on The Edge.

(Cheap Trick - Standing on the Edge of the stairs - click pic to go to CheapTrick.com)

It is also believed that the band may yet release a Christmas song in December, although not an EP as earlier suggested.

FP enter Fawcett's Cooper's Court studio at the end of July and the 12-song album will be released on Bally Rotter Records mid-August.