Glenn Richards Working On Solo Album
News posted Tuesday, August 10 2010 at 11:00 AM.
Related: Augie March, Glenn Richards.
Less than a year after putting Augie March on ice, Glenn Richards has begun work on “another album of songs written by me that happens to feature other players and a deliberately low rent approach to the making”. In other words, he’s putting together his first solo disc.
Richards has spent the past month holed up in a warehouse with collaborators including his older brother Charles, Ben Bourke of Ned Collette’s backing band Wirewalker and The Drones’ Mike Noga and Dan Luscombe, who last year interviewed Richards about his reasons behind Augie’s hiatus for M+N.
Here’s what he says about the recording process:
We set up in a warehouse the size of a skating rink, rehearsed and recorded 19 songs over a month, although with the many technical hitches I can safely say we probably did 19 in 19. A fair achievement and not without cost to health and sanity. I'm in the middle of vocals now and it feels like there's an electric razor shaving the inside of my neck, and I can't remember ever swearing so much when I'm talking to myself on the street. It's rough and ready but not without ambition and some finesse. Like most of the Augie stuff it ain't hip, but I hope it's got some legs to out stroll the sprinting ninnies on Cool Street.
No release date has been set, but it should be out later this year.
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how do people find these places?
But skating rinks vary in size!
Its still a pretty big skating rink....
how many years til this comes out tho? is he still part of the sony empire?
The EP may as well have been his first solo album, it was 7 tracks long.
I had visited said warehouse during the recording. Mother fucker has some guitars I should have thieved.
I saw theremins, electric drum kits, kick drums suspended by strings.
A source who has no say in this says it would ideally be out by the start of next year so he can start doing some shows I guess?
new song here to hear
or you can listen to it right here
really? i thought he was still on the label formerly known as bony?
that resemblance is freakish.
it's since been edited probably due to vast inaccuracy, but this is what you would have found on glenn richards wikipedia up until recently;
*Glenn Richards is an Australian songwriter, known primarily for his work in the band Augie March. He is the half-brother of actor Eric Stoltz, although apparently the two have seldom met. He is famous for flagrantly disregarding rhythm and metre in his lyrics, reflecting his ongoing struggle to marry free verse and rock and roll. He currently lives in Adelaide with his two daughters, Peta and Sally. His dislikes include cats and photos of people's cats.
Early years
Glenn Richards was born in Victoria on the 17 November 1972. Not much is known about his childhood, but Glenn claims most of it was spent in fiery intellectual debate with his younger brother Steven, who now runs a two-star Italian restaurant in Northcote. Rumours persist of his involvement in the notorious extortion gang, The Baby Snitchers, for which he supposedly spent three years in juvenile detention[citation needed]. Although its legitimacy is dubious, there does exist a comment attributed to him concerning his days in prison:
''It was there that I first began reading poetry. Initially, it was a defence mechanism. If the other kids found out you didn't know your Milton from your Wordsworth, you'd be dead by the end of the week. But gradually I began to appreciate the efforts of these famous poets, and before I knew it, I had 'Juggernaut Boy' scrawled in excrement on my cell wall. It wasn't pretty, but by God was it diverting. After that, it was only a matter of time before the BMG talent-scouts in the next cell discovered my work and offered me a twelve-cigarette deal on the spot.''
Upon release from detention, Richards saved up enough money to buy his first guitar by working long hours on the docks in Fremantle, Western Australia. This demanding work earned him the barrel chest and tendency to brawl that continue into later life.
With Augie March
Richards joined Augie March in August 1995, playing his first gig with them five years later. The occasion was the backyard wedding of his elder sister Clementia, now happily divorced and living in Fairfield. Since then, Augie March have grown to become Australia's third-favourite literate pop group, after The Whitlams and Eskimo Joe.*
hah
also, this is currently on his wiki entry:
Personal life
In November 2010 Richards also released his first book; an autobiography entitled 'Life' in time to celebrate the 'Like A Rolling Stone' folk guitarist's 38th birthday. In 'Life' Richards details his songwriting inspirations, in a kiss and tell the world behind the scenes look at his personal life.
Genres
Butt-rock, Rickety Rock, Rock
Older brother Chris, not Charles as stated above. Over and out.