Euros Childs has been making music for over thirty years, as a solo artist and as the frontman of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. He's released 19 solo albums to date, most of which have appeared on his own National Elf label. Since 2019 Euros has also been playing keyboards and lending his voice to Teenage Fanclub, appearing on their last two albums.
This tour will mark Euros’s return to the stage with a band for the first time in seven years. He’ll be joined by long term collaborators Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) Stuart Kidd (Kidd, The Wellgreen) and Selma French (Morgonrode, Frøkedal).
Expect a show full of life, zest and humour that draws on Euros's extensive back catalogue as well as songs from his forthcoming album Beehive Beach, due in October.
Line Up
n November of last year, at the end of a three week American tour, fellow musicians Steven Black (bass), Peter Richardson (drums) and myself were booked in to record an album in Nashville, Tennessee with engineer Mark Nevers.
Recorded live over six days, sessions were easy going stress free affairs, starting at 11am and winding down around tea time. We never played a song more than a handful of times and most were captured in the first or second take. The fact that the studio was also Mark’s house probably added to the relaxed atmosphere of the sessions.
As a result, I can’t help feeling slightly guilty that the recording sessions didn’t require the usual exhausting thirteen hour days and endless takes of songs. The album came together so quickly that I can barely recall the recording. And from a personal point of view this makes for a good listening experience, even to the extent that it feels a bit like listening to somebody else’s record. The whole album sounds very fresh to me.
Cheer Gone isn’t a country record. It was recorded in Nashville because I like the sound of Mark Nevers’ records. If he had been recording in Port Talbot we would have gone there to record. Having said that the album does feature some fine Nashville musicians who have been known to play in the country style: Chris Scruggs who played some lap steel and acoustic guitar, Jamey Lampkins who plucked the banjo, veteran session fiddle player Glen Duncan and Matt Swanson of Lambchop who played bass on ‘Saving up to get married’.
That’s about it, hope you like it.
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