Black Submarine (new music from ex-Verve members, the good ones)

[Ajay Sharma]

So Nick McCabe and Simon Jones teamed up with some other guys (and a girl) to make a new band called "Black Ships".  They changed the name to "Black Submarines" and have some new music out on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/blacksubmarine-2

What's odd is that after the song is done, the music keeps playing with a bunch of songs that I've never heard.  I don't know if it's the other parts of their upcoming album or live stuff or other artists. 

Does this happen to anyone else?

--Ajay

[Lisa Y. Garibay]

Hooray, Nick is back! Let's do another interview!

(And yes, that happens to me on Soundcloud quite often. Not sure why or what to do about it.)

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[Ajay Sharma]

Oh god.  I can't even go back to that Nick interview.  So many cringe moments (for me).

And soundcloud apparently just turns into a radio station playing random tracks after it's over.  The artist/track info is in the title of the web page, it's not as obvious as it should be.

--Ajay

[Mike McCann]

This is the infamous "Ajay's a tosspot" interview?  :)

[Ajay Sharma]

No no... Nick never called me a tosspot.  He was very nice and cool to even do the interview with a dopy kid like me.

The tosspot thing was a clip on radio1 where "someone" from Verve called me a tosspot for putting the urban hymns tracklisting on my site.  I just happened to list the bonus track title, "Deep Freeze", which they were annoyed at.  (Fun Fact: Their first release after getting back together was called "The Thaw Sessions".  Oh yeah, people love me at parties.)

When I went to England to interview Nick, we actually met up the day before Lisa and the tape recorder showed up and I asked him about the tosspot thing.  He said that they were just annoyed that the information was out there.  They just wanted it to be a surprise for fans to hear this bonus track.  It kinda sums up the whole "uncontrollable element" notion of the site.  I was this kid in California that was just posting everything Verve and they wanted to control it.  They could've just emailed me beforehand and I would've posted official information.  But everything was so new, they just thought I was like a version of TMZ dedicated to only Verve news.

I miss those wild-west days of the early internet.  It's all so controlled with marketing plans and it all reads like a formal press release.

--Ajay

[Joseph Whitcher]

It kind of reminds me of something from the 90s... I can't put my finger on it. I'm intrigued.

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