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(DETOUR RECORDS ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR FIRST ALBUM BY SPEAKEASY ON THE ‘PAISLEY ARCHIVE’ LABEL. THIS BAND SHOULDN'T NEED ANY INTRODUCTIONS BUT JUST IN CASE YOU BEEN IN OUTER SPACE FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO THEM ANYWAY...MARK LE GALLEZ ON VOCALS (THE RISK / THEE JENERATORS), SIMON STEBBING ON GUITAR (THE PURPLE HEARTS / RT4), BRETT 'BUDDY' ASCOTT ON DRUMS (THE CHORDS / THE RAGE / POPE) AND MIC 'ACE BASS' STONER ON BASS. PAST MEMBERS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THREE OF THE TRACKS ON THIS RELEASE INCLUDE FAY HALLAM (MAKIN' TIME / PRIME MOVERS / FAY HALLAM TRINITY) AND MIKE 'ACE' EVANS (THE ACTION / MIGHTY BABY). SO YOU CAN JUST SEE THE PEDIGREE OF THIS OUT STANDING BAND! BUDDY ASCOTT EXPLAINS... I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER HOW THIS ALL CAME ABOUT...A PHONE CALL, AN E-MAIL, A DRUNKEN PROPOSITION THAT INVOLVED MUSIC, NOTHING ILLICIT. THERE WAS SIMON, OF COURSE, DRIVING FORCE AND LINCHPIN OF THE WHOLE PROJECT - CREATIVE, EXPERIMENTAL, ALWAYS POSITIVE ABOUT FUTURE PLANS. AND MARK WAS INSTANTLY ON BOARD - OUR VERY OWN MUSE AND SOUNDING BOARD - WITH MARK NOTHING IS OFF-LIMITS, IT'S ALL GOOD, AND WHY-THE-HELL-NOT-TRY-THAT-YOU-NEVER-KNOW-IT-MIGHT-WORK! FAY WAS THE ICING ON THE ORIGINAL CAKE, EMBELLISHING, AUGMENTING AND ADDING AN EXTRA SONIC LAYER WITH HER HAMMOND-DESTROYING ANTICS AT TOERAG STUDIOS. THAT WAS THE FIRST SESSION - AND WHERE I FIRST MET MIKE. MIKE "ACE" EVANS, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE ACTION AND LATTERLY OF MIGHTY BABY. MIKE HAD SEEN IT ALL, HEARD IT ALL AND DONE MORE THAN MOST OF US EVER WILL. HIS "ACE" MONIKER WAS WELL DESERVED, THOUGH WE NEVER ADDRESSED HIM THAT WAY - HE'D HAVE BLUSHED. FOR MIKE WAS THAT RARE COMMODITY IN LIFE, AS IN ROCK'N'ROLL - ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS. AS UNASSUMING AS HE WAS TALENTED, AS GREAT A GENTLEMAN AS YOU COULD'VE EVER MET. HE HAD AN ALMOST TRANSCENDENTAL AIR OF CALM AND ASSUREDNESS. I WAS WOEFULLY UNDER-REHEARSED FOR THAT FIRST SESSION (I'M SURE YOUR EARS WILL AGREE!) BUT MIKE WAS COMPLIMENTARY AND ENCOURAGING, LAYING DOWN A BEAUTIFULLY SCULPTED BASS PART FOR THE REST OF US TO STOMP ALL OVER. AND THEN SUDDENLY HE WAS GONE - NOT JUST FROM US, BUT FROM ALL. WE CARRIED ON - MIC PROVIDING A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY ESSENTIAL BASS BASE, AND SOMEHOW, OVER THE COURSE OF TWO FURTHER RECORDING SESSIONS, WE FINISHED WHAT YOU'RE HOLDING IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW.  WE CALL IT SPEAKEASY, AND THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY AND SPIRIT OF MIKE EVANS. MIKE "ACE" EVANS.

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INTRO …

THE BLUES HAVE GOT ME

YOUR PRECIOUS WAYS

LET’S ROLL

SHADOWS & REFLECTIONS

LITTLE LOUIS

RED WINE SONG

SEEDS

SOUL SEARCHING

VENI VIDI VICI

NO SMILE DAY

PO’ DOG

VANITY CLAUSE

LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING

OUTRO…

 

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