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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
heard of yours, and I thought this rocks this
really rocks you know it really does thank you
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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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