Attack Of The Grey Lantern

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Back in the high days of Britpop, Mansun released an album that sat askew from the pervading happy-go-lucky spirit of the times. Attack of the Grey Lantern is the debut album by English alternative rock band Mansun released on 17 February 1997 via Parlophone. The final single released from the album was "Taxloss" which followed the album in April 1997 and made No. They released four classic albums – Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997), Six (1998), Little Kix (2000) and the compilation Kleptomania following the band’s split – as well as a popular and now rare series of EPs.

I always thought the chords and melody movement were really complex on this song and I can only imagine they’ll make a West End musical out of it in the end, which would be a suitable ending to the life of this record I think.He kept a record of the original vocal that is now being released on the outtakes CD and listening back he was right.

Originally this song was entitled ‘Desperate Icons’, a song I’d began writing quite a few years as a teenager before the album’s release.

A bizarre pseudo rap about a transvestite vicar who cross dresses like his daughter, it seemed a good idea at the time and slightly subversive but seems a little tame by today’s standards where such things are pretty run of the mill. The following three singles ("Stripper Vicar", " Wide Open Space", " She Makes My Nose Bleed") all made the top forty each improving of the previous singles' chart position.

I was planning ahead and already had the idea of a skit on a concept record already written down, this song does what it says on the tin and describes a particularly debauched night in the life of the characters on the record. The next day I came back and Ronnie Stone, our engineer / producer said to me the verse vocal was weak so I re-recorded it and that was the only change from the track that was completed in a day. The album was preceded by four singles, the first of which "Egg Shaped Fred" was released a year prior. Although this song sat neatly with the narrative of the plot, I thought I’d challenge my own rule on this song, I remember the chorus being really emotional, and it still feels like that now.With former Mansun frontman Paul Draper now enjoying a solo career after a number of years in the wilderness, his old band’s debut has been re-released in a special 21-year anniversary edition. Inside it says remastered in 2018 by Jon Astley, all I can see written(stamped I meant) on the dead wax is side1:- 237358E1/ A, and side 2:- 237358E2/B with no other tell tale marks or logos anywhere, ok my eyesight is bad but I did this with my 3 x readers on lol ! Having been a huge dance music fan it was really satisfying having a big club hit remix from the album too. The amount of times I’ve sat in pubs trying to explain to people what ‘Stripper Vicar’ is all about is mind boggling, and in the mists of time, I’m not sure I can even remember myself.