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interviews with Nick and Sue. Chatterbox! The best news and reviews for you on Chatterbox! Chatterbox. We're lucky enough to welcome Louise Albury. Louise, welcome to Chatterbox. How are you? Hello Louise. Hello, thank you. It's lovely to be here, lovely to talk to you. And you, and you. It's great to chat to you at last. Now, you're quite established actually. You've got
your sixth album coming out called LFA. Obviously that means there's been five albums before we've not talked about so tell us a little bit about what's got you to the sixth album and a little bit about your career so anyone that's not heard of you before gets an idea about you. Oh, thank you. Yeah. So it's funny to me when it's like,
wow, six records. How did that happen? But I guess I started writing and recording when I'm from London, as you know, and I went to my local studios in North London just to get an idea about how studios worked and get a bit of experience in that space rather than just at home. And through those guys, I met Boz Bora, who is best known for being Morrissey's co -writer, musical director, guitarist for about three decades, I think he
did. and so they introduced me to Boz and then I moved over to New York and whilst I was out there he was on tour with Morrissey and we just sort of met up and he kind of took me under his wing a bit and he said to me you know if you fancy doing some recording like I've got a studio I'd be happy to kind of you know do some producing for you. So that's how I did my first record quite by chance, really. So I ended up doing a record that Boz produced at his studio out
in Portugal. Funnily enough, he's got a beautiful studio out in the mountains in Portugal. So it's really beautiful. So I went out there and that's kind of how I got started and then did another record with him and then just kind of, you know, started. I was in New York for about 10 years, came back to London for a bit, then went to Los Angeles for about year and a half and whilst I was out there I did this latest record, wrote and recorded it out in California which is brilliant.
Wonderful, yes, well it sounds quite impressive, just wandering out. Honestly, that's quite the story there, you didn't just end up out there one day to do this album. It's quite impressive to do that. I mean, everybody, the world and his wife have got a studio at home and producing at home, but you're going to the top studios in the world as it were, so there we go. Yeah, just really lucky, just happened to sort of meet people and got those opportunities. None of it
was really by design, to be honest. I think I was just lucky with who I met. What about do you do any live stuff or when you're in London and that? When I was in New York, I used to play live all the time. So I think it's really easy in Manhattan because all the clubs, they're so close, downtown Manhattan, they're so close to each other. It's obviously so much smaller than London and everyone knows everyone. You can walk to all the different music venues. So it's kind
of really easy. So I used to play very regularly whilst I was in New York. Did a few gigs back in London, places like the 100 Club. and Brooklyn Bolt the 02 and Dublin Castle you know the usual kind of places around there which was cool. So but I haven't I haven't played recently but I'm hoping to with this record it'll be good and it also be nice to play in in Los Angeles as well seeing as where we recorded it but we're just kind of working out you know kind of how
that might happen. I also see, so you've got Keith Scott on guitars on some of this project now. He's best known as being Brian Adams guitarist since the late 70s. Wow. Yeah, Keith, he's amazing. Been one of the best stuff. Yeah, I hadn't met him before this record. So the guys that work on this record, I'd met some of them and not others. Hadn't met Keith, but yeah, he's amazing. I mean, any, all the Brian Adams songs that you know that that's Keith playing on there say he's
been with him forever. So, and just. absolutely amazing guy and just like a really lovely Canadian. wonderful man, really can't speak highly of him enough. He's just he's just brilliant. I was so lucky to work with him. He he sort of got brought in by Solomon Walker, who's playing bass, who I did know through because he also played bass with Morrissey. So I'd met him through Boz in the past. But our producer, Ken Sluiter, works with Sol a lot. So it was one of those things
where we all kind of knew. And then Sol suggested Keith, which, you know, is so, so happy about.
So and then we have Roger Manning. he's so again he's played with kind of everyone really I saw him play with Beck at the Albert Hall last year over here which was amazing and you know the killers and all sorts and then Charlie Paxson on drums again didn't know Charlie but he's a kind of LA store war and he's out touring a lot with people like Belinda Carlisle, Smash Mouth those folks but he also drums on James Blunt's Back to Bedlam that huge record so That's Charlie.
So I was surprised when I met him because he didn't seem old enough. I'm like, wow, that was like 20 years ago or something. He was just amazing, like fantastic drummer. So yeah, just super, super lucky to kind of work with these guys really. Sure, and Dave Collins mastering it and of course he's worked with Madonna, The Police, Black Sabbath, Bruce Springsteen and so it goes on. There's some quite fine stock there really, isn't there?
Really is. Okay, so we have got, make sure I get this round the right way, the single which is already available is Midnight Calls. Yes, that's right. What's the song about? This is the first song that I wrote. in Los Angeles really, and I wrote this record out there. It's pretty literal really. It was written whilst driving around Los Angeles trying to find somewhere to live. I was just so wide -eyed because I'd spent
a lot of time in New York but not LA. I didn't know LA at all and it's obviously so different, such a different environment. You've got the palm trees and the beach and the mountains and
everything's there and Hollywood's there. It was really written just driving around and the chorus talks about the Hollywood Hills and just and making those calls back home really but it's it was really about just being on the edge of something new and being in a new city and seeing what like new experiences there were going to be so for me it kind of set up the record which is why we've kind of released it first yeah sure um okay and uh the album this is your sixth studio
album and uh lfa yes the name of it when can we expect that to be released when was that due for release It will be in the summer probably around about August time. We've got a new single coming out next month called Vienna and then after that we'll be having the full album so likely to be sort of early to mid -August that'll be coming out. Okay. Now also, I think it's in your career in general, rather than just this
single, because that's came out on the 8th. I think, well, there's some amazing feats here.
Long before you got played on Chatterbox and Radio North Sea International and things like that, you used to do a play, this is very impressive, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, Kerrang!, BBC London, so that's a pretty... good start isn't it really well it's not a start because you started a long time ago but that's a pretty good uh you know basis to get this album sent out to as well i guess yeah exactly so yeah again just really lucky uh i remember we did i think for a couple
of records though we did we did a session with bbc london with gabby ross thing so that was really nice because it was one of those um shows where everybody's kind of in the room and there's a lot of interaction so it's like a kind of acoustic set so that was nice but yeah it's always nice to get you know some air play oh Who's this? Every time we do an interview. All of a sudden she rubs around her feet and she has to say hello. So there we go. Oh, she's beautiful. Twinkle.
But she loves it. She just wants to say hello. Then she does it. So there you go. She said hello now, but she does it. Well, the best, isn't it? Yeah, we're going to do a separate podcast. The
people that Twinkle's interviewed. Yeah. yeah she loves it she loves just meeting people she has to see so yeah brilliant so yeah we've done that bit with gaby rosslyn and that so i think the basis is there for you just to pick it up again and uh do the same stations why play you again isn't it really yeah well fingers crossed i think it's a bit it's a bit trickier these days with some of the kind of um the mainstream airplay but yeah hopefully just it's good just
to get things out there and see you know see what the reception is it's great Yeah, well this this I mean obviously we we get sent all of the press releases from Lisa Davis promotions we get everything anyway, but You know I do take I mean there's occasionally times when we are that booked up that we can't do anything But you know I do my best to read them and listen and I must say Click the video the first thing I've heard and I thought first thing I've ever
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and Sue, your musical duo. This is Nick and Sue with Cheddar Box, giving you all you need to know about musical entertainment. Cheddar Box! Tell me Louise, when it comes to Midnight Rocks, now you've got that amazing, fabulous team. with you, obviously behind you, but with you. Now, do you go to them and tell them how you want it to sound, or are they advising you, or is it a mixture, or how does what I'm listening to today sound to what you had in your mind when
you wrote it? I think it's pretty similar. It's interesting because quite often I think, oh, I might want to do more of our, I don't know, acoustic or rock or different thing, but what I find is that... it almost always just kind of sounds like me and I think the sound across
those six albums pretty similar. Obviously, there are differences in studios, in producers, but I think when I write the stuff, the way I write is I just write the music and lyrics, put down a demo, but I put everything on it that I want. I'll program the drums, I'll put the guitar, the bass, the keys, the percussion, everything that's in my head. Just very rudimentary, obviously.
That's why I have these amazing players. I can't possibly play that all stuff, but I can put it down as a demo and then I'll take it to my producer. But yeah, and I think the sound, I think it's just developed because I think it just sounds like me. So but yeah, I sort of take, you know, they'll listen to the demo, sometimes they'll, you know, if there's like a like a baseline soul would say, actually, that baseline works, I'm just going to follow it. Or he'll say, actually,
I, you know, I think this will work. And I'm like, please, you know, I'm very happy to take any input, because that's why you've got these amazing musicians. So, you know, whatever they want to add. Absolutely. It's great. But I think I think the sound Yeah, I don't know how to describe it apart from Yeah, that's just how it seems to turn out, you know, and that's just like my
sound, I guess. Yeah. Brilliant. And do you have, you actually got homes both sides of the pond now, you have it permanently, so you can get one side to the other. Is that permanent residence over in LA? Personal question, don't it? I haven't asked you the address, have I? I haven't got permanent homes, but I go back and forth. I'm lucky enough to be able to do that. I was going
to go with it. Excellent. Where I was going to go with it is, I mean, is it a question of you want some influence for songs and you get to the other side of the pond and get what you want, or does it work like that at all? Yeah, it can do it. I mean, certainly for this record, yeah, that's really interesting you said that actually, because definitely for this record it was good.
It was born a bit out of like post -COVID, I guess, because I'd come, I was in New York, I'd come back to London, I was doing my previous
album, and then we had to finish that. remotely, you know, because we got into lockdown, which is how I actually hooked up with the guys in Los Angeles, because as everyone was remote anyway, I reached out to a couple of people and people were kind of, especially musicians, a lot of their livelihood had kind of gone from, you know, touring and, you know, booking and playing, etc. So people were like really keen to work, you know, so I was lucky enough, that's when I hooked
up with Ken and Roger for the first time on my previous record. And then they sort of said, Oh, you know, what if you want to do something in person? So I'm like, an exit and post COVID I thought the Los Angeles very appealing because like say you can be outside so much more because mainly because the weather you've got beautiful weather kind of the whole year, whereas London and New York, you're so on top of each other. It's such crazy, you know, there's so many people
in such a small, you know, space. So Los Angeles seemed like a good place to kind of be able to just get that space and be outside more and it definitely inspired me with the writing because I hadn't I'd only been out there I think a couple of times previously and not for any length of time so I think just being in a new environment it really yeah it really did inspire me like to just kind of like get a different input yeah yeah and the album cover looks quite interesting
uh well now is that your ideas was that was that just I want to look like that that's what I'm going to do I'm going to look away so I'm watching something is that 100 % yours or has someone advised you on how the the cover should look yeah no it's just you know there wasn't 100 % of thought behind it if I'm honest it's just like you do photo shoots and you just kind of look at what what might work afterwards you know it's like you have like hundreds of photos and
most of them you think oh my god you know do I really look like that and then you have a few that you like so no I just I just liked those ones to be to be honest there wasn't too much thought, I'll be honest, not too much thought
behind that. It actually looks like you are in deep thought on the one you've selected, so it's great, you're watching something in the distance, so it's good, you know, I'm there wondering what you're thinking, so there you go, so that's the talking point, so it's worked well, isn't it? Is there any artist or band you'd like to sing with? That's a good question. Not particularly. I say I feel so lucky the people that I've worked
with anyways. So and if I'm honest like my the people that I really really love uh not really around anymore i'm very i've got a really old old soul i think because part of the attraction goes los angeles i love old hollywood like i wrote a whole album inspired by carrie grant films for example which is kind of a bit like you wouldn't really expect that so you know frank Sinatra Elvis Presley those kind of people you know just my absolute heroes so but the i'm not
i can't think of anyone like currently i mean obviously i'd love to you know play or tour with anyone but there's there's not anyone in particular that i just sort of say but um but yeah but i think just people i have worked with have been amazing i appreciate we haven't got the the album lfa out yet but i've got to ask you what's next for you What's next? Well, as I say, we've got a new single coming out next month, then the
record and then hopefully some live gigs. But as I say, at the moment, we're just kind of working it all out. So I'm a bit in that kind of just just a bit loopy goosey stage. And I'm just trying to work out what might be right for the next for the rest of the year. But that's it will be largely based around like the album coming out and then doing some shows, I think. Yeah.
and the shows obviously be a lot well there may be some in America but there'd be shows in the UK where people listening to this could come and see you yeah i hope so i mean i think we might start in LA just because the record was I made there and and depending on who we can get I mean it would be wonderful if I could do some shows with with the band on it but I don't know because obviously they're very very busy you know for example you know like Brian Adams
tours constantly so um you know but anyway by the way it'll be good to show out there and then and then yeah over here also would be would be really nice and they were talking about a couple of things in Europe as well because Charlie um the drummer he plays a lot in Europe so yeah we'll see yeah and uh wonderful record label name uh Carrots Bone Records yeah it's different i love it yeah yeah yeah yeah no i love it too very good okay so uh i would I do ask this quite
a lot. If you were to come back in six months or in years' time, what would you like to be telling me you've achieved? But I think you're basically there. I think, yeah, pop back by and tell us when you've sorted us her out over here or something. We'll have another chat, something like that. Brilliant. Thank you. I'd love that. Thank you. Have you got anything? No, I've just enjoyed the radio. Cool. OK, now you've got some... great social media so of course anybody listening
to this uh they can obviously click on www .louisalbury .com louis as louis would be expected to be spelt the albury part a u b r i e louisalbury .com so i can see there's facebook and all sorts listed down there but uh again click on the new single out there so yeah nice home page elf's got a picture from the album cover on the home page that's good So what I was looking at, and it is there, we scroll down to the bottom, saves us reading out all the social media as to what
each individual one is. We've got your links to your Facebook, to your YouTube channel, to your Soundcloud, to your Spotify, and to your Instagram. They're all there, so just at the bottom of the page just click directly on any of them and it takes people straight there. Is there any other social media you'd like to mention? No, I think that's good. Probably Instagram's the main one, like you said, and then Spotify's
streaming. And the video for Midnight Calls is on the YouTube channel, like you said, which has got some really nice almost behind -the -scenes images of the recording process in East West and then some of the stuff around Los Angeles. So that's on YouTube at the moment as well. Brilliant. That's fantastic. So yes, that was LouiseAlbury
.com. So Louise, it's been great meeting you and every success with the two singles and the album and the concerts that you're planning and let's have a catch up when you know what you're doing next and yeah, we'll have another chat then. Yeah, thank you for coming on Chatterbox. No thank you, I've really enjoyed it, it's lovely to talk to you, thank you. Take care, bye bye.
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