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our special guest is Rob Reynolds of Lake. This
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just lucky enough to welcome Robert Reynolds
from Lake. Welcome, how are you sir? I'm fine
thanks, how are you? Yeah, I'm great thank you.
Now, Lake, they've been around since what 1973
or something, something a long time, a long way
back, but you don't look anywhere old enough
for that. So, I imagine you've joined this sort
of latest time around, perhaps we'll talk a little
bit about Lake's history in a bit. So, but let's
talk about you as a musician and what got you
To join like? Well, I had a number of years doing
my own stuff, had a few albums out and stuff
like that. And then I got a phone call from Detlef,
who's the main writer and producer out of the
blue, actually. He was searching for a new singer,
went to Glasgow, ended up going into a studio
where I had a friend and he was saying, oh, why
don't you try this singer out? And that's that's
how I met them, actually. So he gave me a ring,
went over to meet him. We got on well. Started
working straight away, really. Were you aware
of Lake beforehand? I think, I'm not sure. When
I heard On The Run, I recognised that song. Yeah.
So I'm pretty sure, and I know they did the whistle
test, and I watch the whistle test a lot. So
I think I might have heard the song. I didn't
know much about the band, though. No, I was kind
of, and it might have been whistle test, I was
kind of aware of Lake in the 70s. I was kind
of awareness that must be whistle test or something
because they haven't actually had UK hits as
such But yeah, I was aware of them. So there
must be quite extensive airplane There must be
some tours and of course even back in the 70s
and was a British member major British member,
of course So yeah little things like that I mean,
I think of facts that should be said just to
get people keep people interested because there
was the 1977 US sure quite a big tour and we
just also uh remember course they were supporting
the lineup then were supporting then at skinnered
yeah they were in a major fact in fact it was
a was it almost a buddy holly moment as a toss
of the coin and who went in that plane and who
went by other ways and uh like yeah lost the
toss but they they won in the long run because
of course the plane crashed as we know what a
story Yeah, they would they were gonna get on
that flight and I don't know what happened but
they ended up sort of like going Afterwards,
but yeah, very very lucky. I mean it was tragic
really wasn't it? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely
So yeah, that that's quite something and also
obviously back in the days because it was a lake
where hamburg based of course back certainly
back then I mean obviously In these days you
could be based anywhere can't you because yeah,
it's like we are now. Um, but I do understand
the uh band of the year west germany 1977 or
something along those lines, but of course with
supporting lennard skinner. I mean, that's pretty
good in there. I mean they do yeah, yeah They
did a lot of supports, I can't remember off the
head, but it was with a lot of big -named acts
actually at the time. And I see albums, Lake
1976, Lake 2 1978 and Paradise 1979. There we
go and quite a lot of nice facts and feats there.
So tell us before we move on to the present,
well we are moving on to the present day, because
how many original members are currently with
Lake, is it two? Is that right? Well, there's
Detlef Peterson, who's the... He was the main
writer and main producer. There's Martin on bass,
who's the original bass player. Ian... I mean,
Alex Conte on guitar, who's the original guitarist.
We've even got Ian Cusack, who's the original,
original singer. He's actually singing two tracks
on the album. Um, I'm a sailor which is I think
I'm not sure if that's the current single at
the moment and another song. Um, so there's uh,
yeah, uh, ian martin Detlef alex and then there's
me who's the newest one i've been in seven years
He's the new boy on seven years. Yeah Oh, I am
the youngest at 58 as well, which is crazy We're
the same age. I thought we were, yeah. I knew
we were out there. Yeah, we had to be. Okay,
so when it got to starting to record together,
I mean, who writes the songs? Do you all do a
bit or how does it work out? Do you have an idea
and send it to the others or what goes on with
like? It's mostly Detlef. Mostly Detlef who writes
the music and some of the lyrics and then he's
got a guy who works with an American lyricist
and then I co -wrote some and obviously because
I'm the English speaking one, I I tidy up a lot
of, if there's grammatical errors and stuff like
that, I'll sort of clean it up a bit. It might
be just moving an and or an if. Right, yeah.
Or I co -wrote, like, No Regrets, I wrote the
chorus, you know, so there's bits and pieces,
but mostly Detlef wrote the music. Okay, and
we got the new album called Four. Now, I've named
three previous albums. Am I literally saying,
is this literally the first album since Paradise
Island? Is it really the fourth one? Or how did
it get its name? Because there ain't four of
you. There's a lot more than that. It's about
six of you. Yeah. I think it's because it's a
new chapter, but kind of carrying on. Because...
When Adetlef left, I can't remember what year,
and there was a few little iterations of it.
Alex took out a lake band as well. But this is
the first time it's like the proper lake together.
So, I mean, barring me, obviously. So I think
that's why the number fours come across. It's
like they see it as a continuality. Oh, yeah.
No, that's cool. If that's a word, continuality,
I just don't know. That's fine. If it flows off
the tongue, then it sounds realistic. Don't worry
about it. It'd be the English Oxford. If it's
not there now, I'll be there next year. We keep
saying, between us we keep saying it, we keep
playing the internet. It'll be there. If it's
not there, it'll be there. Touring, I know you're
aiming working on tours. There's nothing concrete
yet. So maybe next time we chat, we'll talk about
that. But you've been there seven years. So what
have you done? I appreciate we've got lockdowns
and things at the beginning. But what have you
done in the way of tours after that? I mean,
have you managed to get on the road, you guys?
No, not at all. I mean, we started it and then
COVID hit and then it was really hard to get
over there and carry on. So there's been big
gaps. The advantage of that is that we can live
with the songs a bit longer than we would normally
do so we can go back and go well that chorus
didn't work or them lyrics didn't work or that
melody doesn't quite work so we've had a lot
of time to go back and do it so that's really
how it's been I go over for a couple of weeks
we worked on melodies lyrics and stuff like that
then I come away he maybe put some bass down
then I go back and then you know it's a bit like
that So the seven years has been full but with
a lot of gaps, if you see what I mean. I mean,
what's the aim of Lake as a band? I mean, is
it to Germany and Europe or are they hoping to
get back to the USA or have that final big breakthrough
in the UK? I mean, what's the initial aim, do
you think? I think the initial aim is to get
an album that we all like out and hopefully the
old fans will like it as well. Well, which is
always hard when you swap singers. I understand
that. I think all of the above. I mean, you know,
it's a different industry now than when even
when I was signed in 93 with my solo deal. It's
a totally different industry. So I don't I don't
say I fully understand it. So if there's a demand,
then obviously we'll go wherever that that. that
demand is. I mean, we all want a tour, that's
for sure. It's just, you know, as I say, I'm
going over on Tuesday, hopefully I'll know a
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Shatterbox! I think probably looking at the line
-up, the way you got through, who is a first
-time round member, we'll say. I mean, I'm sure
the fans would be quite... There's a hell of
a lot of you from the 70s in the group, so I'm
sure you've still got them. I'm sure you have,
but let's hope the album can break through in
the UK. Let's hope that final thing, I mean the
UK album chart is now top 100, that's recognised
as to have an album hit. So let's hope, you know,
that can be done on the back of a star over here
or something. It's plausible. I mean, yeah, I
hope so. I mean, I really, I really like the
album. I think it's got some good songs. You
know, I'm really proud of it. We're all proud
of it. So, I mean, it's a look at a draw. You
finish something, can you put it out into the
world and then you just see what happens, you
know? OK, so make sure I get this round the right
way. Now, I've got a brand, brand new single,
it looks like, Boy On A Mission. It's the first
single from the album, actually. So we got that.
That came out back in April, so it's been out
on the 17th of April, I've got it here. Okay.
I think Wish I Was A Sailor was out now, and
that's Ian has lead vocals on that. I had heard
of that song, so we've got two off the album.
Are we aware of any other singles to come off
the album? Because sometimes people bring out
loads, so what's next? I think there might be
a single comes out with the release of the album.
So early June, I think there might be. I'm not
sure which song it is. It could be Hey Sam, but
I'm not 100 % sure. So yeah, I think that'll
be it. And then that'll be, I think that'll be
the album out. Are you surprised, perhaps, at
the amount of interviews and interest you're
getting now? I am in the UK actually, that's
what I'm really surprised about. Obviously if
there's German interviews, they're doing the
German interviews. That's why I'm going over
on Tuesday, there's a big TV, so I've got to
go over for that. But I'm surprised how much
interest there has been in the UK and that's
really heartening to know really that people
like, you know, because we've had really good
feedback from the songs, so that's good. uh did
hear you on uh did hear your interview on the
chris james show on radio north sea international
as well so uh you know we're aware that you're
around anyway so we've actually heard you do
an interview already on it so yeah so i mean
i It's been a long time since I've done interviews
because I've had my album, that's what I used
to do all the time. But in them days, I used
to go around with an acoustic guitar and go with
everyone in person in the 90s. Now you don't
have to leave your house, which is odd in a way,
but probably easier, you know. Oh, well, you
imagine doing all these interviews. Now I'm on
the South Coast. So you imagine now you have
to come down to Hastings and then the next day,
I used to love that though. I used to love that.
I love traveling around. You end up going to
town. that you would not normally go to. That's
what I always loved. You'd see something new
all the time. It's great. I like Hedge Sticks.
Great towns. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
Great. A great music scene here. Very good music.
Very arty. Yeah, I was going to say very good
arty scene. And all across the board, I mean,
so much so for a medium sized seaside town, it
has two independent art house cinemas. What towns
of under 100 ,000 population have that? Not many.
in Brighton's only got one, you know so it's
been lucky and yeah all the uh all the Atlantic
air pressures, warm currents come up uh come
up you see and this we get the paupers and the
dolphins come up in the June and July and um
first time ever known about two weeks ago bearing
in mind it was only April still humpback whale
off the coast at Hastings. Wow did you see it?
No, no, on your Facebook and that. Wow. You know,
you think that's good. Yeah. Is it a nice day
today? It is. Yes. Well, at the studio window,
the sunshine there and the trees are bright at
the back on that side. So we have had some terrible
weather yesterday, but yeah. I've had torrential
rain for all night and all day. It's only just
stopped, actually. Well, you keep it. We're trying
to send some of this up to you. All right. Yeah.
Thank you. Yeah. uh harrogate harrogate isn't
it so that's it's quite an interesting little
little town yeah yeah i'm just outside of the
country but well you've held your original song
contest though i know that i remember yeah yeah
When I was younger, actually, I used to do a
lot of the get ins and get outs for the conference
centre where all the gigs came. I remember doing
the Russian Symphony Orchestra. I think Jason
Donovan, when he first came out, I think I did
the loading, you know, the PA and all that sort
of stuff. Yeah, great days. Brilliant. So, hopefully,
it looks like it's going to be a very busy summer
and autumn for you and the guys at Lake. Obviously,
we're wishing you every success for that. Make
sure I've got this right. So I did say four.
Yeah, four is the title of the new album and
I can't remember if you mentioned it or not.
So what is the date for four coming out in the
UK? I think it's June. I think it's early June,
but I don't know the exact date. i think you
see yeah i think it's early june so good enough
that's good enough that's good enough okay so
i wish you every success with the singles we've
talked about and the album and the next single
and uh the tour when it comes and um let's do
some social media so we have got a website of
www dot obviously uh lake dash as i call it band
dot com band .com and we click on that and very
nice monochrome picture of you all and we scroll
down to see all your previous albums but what
I'm really looking for here is and in the bottom
right hand corner we got your other links to
Instagram and Facebook so rather than have to
read it all out all someone's got to do is go
to your website and then click on either one
of them at the bottom they can funny on facebook
and stuff yeah it's all there and by the way
it's coming out on vinyl as well which is always
nice so yeah i said it many times i'm going to
say it again there is nothing better apart from
opening a jar of coffee nothing better than smelling
new vinyl is there yeah yeah it's so nice isn't
it it's true absolutely true yeah yeah All those
blues, we missed out on that. So as I say Rob,
every success, it's been great meeting you and
success of course with any stuff you do as an
artist by yourself as well when you're not doing
like but it sounds like you've got a busy time
coming up. Oh I found it, we do have a release
date of June the 5th. Brilliant. And I'll tell
you where I've got that from. I've got that off
of the website. So we like to think that is right.
So there you go. Right. Good. That's great. And
Deluxe 2 CD set available. So that's that. Yeah.
I think they've got quite a few things coming
out. Or we have, should I say? Yeah. Yeah. Part
of it. Yeah. Brilliant, okay well let's say every
success for that and hopefully we'll chat again
when you've got the next next next phase coming
out or an album called Five or The Tours or whatever
it might be. Great chatting Rob and it's been
nice meeting you. Yeah thanks very much for your
support and nice meeting you too. Yeah pleasure,
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