ARTIST: The Primary 5
TITLE: Go!
LABEL: Re-Action Recordings
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 34:32 min
SIZE: 47,7 MB
RIP DATE: Mar-06-2007
RELEASE DATE: Mar-05-2007
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Off Course 03:18
02. 2 Am 03:10
03. Sunsets 03:11
04. Out In The Cold 02:44
05. Reach For The Light 03:21
06. The Great Escape 03:56
07. Make Believe 03:11
08. Lost In Space 04:08
09. Window Shopping 02:59
10. Stars and Stripes 04:34
Release Notes:
Formed early 2002 in Bellshill, Scotland The Primary
5 are Paul Quinn & Ryan Currie. Paul played drums
for Glasgow band The Soup Dragons after joining them
in 1989. Paul played on the bands biggest selling
album Lovegod, which spawned the massive hit single
"I'm Free", which reached the Top 5 in the UK
single's chart as well as scoring chart success in
many countries and proving, without doubt, to be the
bands biggest hit. The second album Hotwired didn't
fair so well and led to Paul, Jim & Sushil jumping
ship early "91" . Suffice to say The Soup Dragons
ran out of fire. Sushil went on to becomer a member
of BMX Bandits before enjoying solo success as
Future Pilot Aka, Jim joined Superstar before
enjoying solo success as "Green Peppers" and Paul
joined Teenage Fanclub early 1992. "One of the
greatest moments of my life was being asked to join
Teenage Fanclub" Paul was quoted as saying. Joining
the band prior to the recording of the brilliant
"Grand Prix" and going on to record 3 more albums,
"Songs from Northern Britain", "Words of Wisdom &
Hope", a collaboration between Teenage Fanclub and
cult American artist/poet/songwriter Jad Fair of
Half Japanese fame. Paul's final contribution to
Teenage Fanclub was his involvement in the recording
of "Howdy". Paul left the band in 2000 and decided
to take some time out and for a short time, a very
short time, he decided that he wanted to get a
"normal job" far away from the music industry that
he seemed disenchanted with. After trying several
things out including working as a postman for a few
months, the sabatical was over and the lure & love
of making music became too strong. Paul had only
ever played drums in bands, never written or felt
the desire to write songs, never played guitar and
never sang, but there wasn't any band, just a pile
of equipment given to him on his leaving TFC
including a Takamine acoustic guitar. For the first
time it was up to Paul what he did musically and
after several months of messing around with his new
found musical companion, his guitar, he came up with
his first songs, "Comin' Home, Easy Chair, I'll Lay
You Down & Field of Dreams. Not knowing where he was
going with this and with no vehicle for the songs he
ran into a bit of a wall until, through a friend, he
hooked up with guitarist/songwriter, Ryan Currie,
who at that time was writing and singing with his
own band "Coolerking". Ryan offered to help Paul
demo his songs and it was during these sessions that
Paul realised that he'd stumbled upon one very
talented guy. Talented in the sense that not only
could he play guitar very well, he could also play
bass guitar & piano as well as being a great
engineer. During the initial sessions something
clicked between them and before long the 4 songs had
turned into 11 or 12 and the guys decided that they
had enough songs to put together a decent record.
Mixed by Nick Brine (Oasis, Stone Roses, Bruce
Springsteen) at Paul McGuigan (Guiggs) from Oasis
home studio the first album, "North Pole" was
complete. Released in the UK on Paul' own, now
defunct, "Bellbeat Music" label in 2004, North Pole
went onto be released in Japan(ThisTimeRecords)
Korea (Beatball Records) and North America
(Microindie) with great success. In early 2005 the
band played support to Arthur Lee & Love, the great
man's last UK tour before very sadly passing away.
Some Spanish Festival appearances late 2005 marked
the bands last shows in support of North Pole and
Paul & Ryan' where now looking at getting the next
album started. Through support from The Scottish
Arts Council, the guys had "a budget" to work with
for the first time. Pleased with the way they had
worked together on North Pole, they decided they
would record in the same way: Paul taking care of
drums and vocals with Ryan playing guitars, bass
guitar, keyboards and engineering the drum
tracks.Recording started at the end of Jan 2006 at
Reeltime Studios in Newarthill, Scotland We asked a
couple of friends for some help and they, as always,
duly obliged. Raymond McGinley Teenage Fanclub) came
in and engineered/produced the guitars, freeing Ryan
up to concentrate on being a musician rather than
behind the desk and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)
engineered/produced the vocals. "It was very cool
getting Norman & Raymond to work on my album. These
guys are masters of their game and boy did they make
the difference". With the recording process complete
the camp moved to Rockfield Studios in Wales where,
once again, the band hooked up with The Primary 5
silent member Nick Brine. One week and lots of
laughs later the recording was complete. "This is
definitely a massive step forward sonically and in
the quality of the songs. We're both very happy at
the results". The album will be released on the
Re-Action Recordings label at the beginning of March
2007.