Stately home gig perfect for James

a recent interview with James chatting about his up and coming show in Devon, why he loves the West Country, working on his new album and the possibility of road testing some new material this Summer.

Stately home gig perfect for James

VENUE VISIT: Singer James Morrison at Escot House, where he is due to perform a concert next month

BLUE skies and sunshine greeted soulful singer-songwriter James Morrison as he paid Escot Park a visit ahead of his summer gig in the grounds.

And he says ticket-holders may even be privy to some of the new, unheard material he hopes to showcase at the stately home just outside Exeter.

"I didn't choose the location," admits the Brit Award winner. "But if I had, I would definitely have chosen somewhere like Escot — I love playing outside gigs and being in the countryside. And I love that the park has a really nice historical building as well.

"Escot Park is the sort of place I'd come on my day off. I think the vast open space and all the nature is going to make it a great venue.

"When it starts to get dark it's just a magical time to be playing music outside. And the lighting makes it really atmospheric."

James, whose debut single You Give Me Something saw him shoot to fame in 2006, was on a whistle-stop visit to Exeter and Escot when I caught up with him.

As a teenager he lived near Newquay, and says his West Country roots gave him plenty of inspiration for his first album, Undiscovered.

"It's good to be back in the West Country," he said. "I love coming down here — I don't get down here enough and I do miss it. I lived in Cornwall for five years, and they were some of the best years of my life.

"I moved to Sussex because I like living by the beach. The vibe is similar to the West Country, it's more relaxed.

"I try to use people and things that are around me as inspiration, and my time in Cornwall definitely influenced songwriting, mainly because of the people I met."

Undiscovered sold over a million copies world wide by the end of 2006, making James the best-selling male solo artist that year in the UK. The following year he was nominated for three Brit Awards and was crowned the Best British Male Solo Artist.

His forthcoming concert at Escot is the last of ten gigs that he has lined up for June and July. Since his second album, Songs for You, Truths for Me, which was released in 2008, James has been spending time with his long-term girlfriend and young daughter.

He's now busy working on his third album which he hopes will be ready next spring.

"I'm writing all the time now, and I'm excited about these gigs because they'll get me out of the studio and get me gigging again," he said.

"I'm hoping to road test some of my new stuff at my gigs this summer, but I don't know for sure yet.

"It's always good to relate your album to what it's going to sound like live."



From here

剛剛我有嘗試翻譯，不過翻到最後越弄越零散

所以就放棄了XD





這訪問的內容應該不會太難，因為要查的單字沒有很多









簡之，James希望第三張專輯最快明年的春天準備好







Quote from the Yorkshire Evening Post:



"I'm lucky in that they're all really cool people who are into their music. But I am also conscious of being viewed as a bit middle of the road and I think my last album veered that way a bit, it lost its edge compared to the first album so I'm trying to do something different again with the third one."

 From new This Is Devon interview:

"I am always going to sing the same way, it's not going to be different to the point of me sounding completely different, that's just too unnatural. But I definitely want to break away from the format of songs I have been doing: verse, chorus, bridge and all that."



And yet another Devon interview:



"I want to write about this idea of an awakening of some kind.I've written a song with that title, which I'm really happy with. There's some funky digeridoo going on," he grins.

 

I'm liking where the third album is going ^^ <--WingYie