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CHRIS TYE
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Member Since	7/15/2005
Band Website	www.christye.co.uk
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Sounds Like	The SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE album is available for digital download from your favourite download store right now! iTunes - click here Napster - click here We've already seen some nice comments in the iTunes store from people who have bought the record and are recommending it to you. Click here to read them and if you like post your own review. If you're crazy about your packaging like I am then you'll need to order the very-nice-indeed digipack which is available from your favourite online store: Amazon.co.uk - click here HMV.co.uk - click here Play.com - click here And for US orders: Amazon.com - click here REMEMBER that you can always buy a copy of the record the good old-fashioned way at your local record store. If they don't have a copy in stock they will be able to order it for you. Let us know if you are having problems by emailing us here. Find out more: READ all about the album, how it was written & recorded and where Chris gets his inspiration in the panel opposite. WATCH a er.. very high quality recording of Chris performing 'Like Wild Fire' - for the first time ever - live at Birmingham's Glee Club opposite. Guest vocalist is Jayne Powell who is lovely, has a beautiful voice and has her own MySpace page here. Tell her we sent you. THEN WATCH a couple more - versions of 'No Sing' from a show at the Bloomsbury Theatre with Bic Runga and 'When A Woman Has Made Up Her Mind' from the Slaughtered Lamb in London are also added and also ace. The album TRACKLISTING is as follows: 1. Joanne 2. Electric Tracks 3. Making Bombs 4. Like Wild Fire 5. Come Undone 6. Sidesteps 7. Beautiful Morning 8. Slow Sad Swing Song You can find lyrics in the album booklet.
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I love this city / I met a lot of nice people here

So sings CHRIS TYE on his debut album SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE. The city in question is Birmingham, guardian of the Midlands, Englands proud second city and Chris home town. The song is Come Undone, one of eight tracks on what is a startlingly honest offering from a young man who is both shy and confident in equal measures; who smiles yet who holds back, and a man with a lot to say yet preferring and indeed able to convey his thoughts with words so carefully thought out you wonder if every conversation is scripted in his head far in advance. When he does speak you feel drawn to listen. Its a talent that translates well to his songwriting, as people who have heard the record are starting to attest. I love the strings on this track, says Tye thoughtfully as Come Undone plays in the background. I recorded the guitar and vocal live and we added the viola and cello afterwards. He pauses. The song is about reaching a point where change is the only thing that can save you  in this case a change of town  going home. We all need to go home from time to time. Its probably the most straightforward emotionally raw track on the album.

Thats quite a sweeping statement. On first listen its difficult to know whether to agree with him or try and talk him round on one of the other songs. The album opener Joanne  an ode to first love  was one of the first songs Chris ever wrote. Joanne was instant and very quick to write, he explains. Its mainly about the process of breaking up with a girlfriend called Joanne. He smiles, acknowledging the inevitability of the subject matter. It has been recorded probably more times than any of my other songs. The version that appears on the album was recorded completely live in a black room lit by a very dim red bulb. He pauses, remembering. Plenty of red wine. Late at night. All the tracks from this session were recorded late. It was the only time the studio was available.

The themes of home and change raised in Joanne are prevalent throughout the album. The wandering through the mirrors with a half empty cup line in Electric Tracks is a reference to drifting through a hallway of mirrors at a nightclub called Snobs with a half finished beer. Anyone who has been anywhere near Birmingham at night will know it. Metaphorically too, I was being very reflective that day. Moving out of a negative mindset involving the previous song! Another chuckle. Its a positive message. Its about finding new things  appreciating life. I recorded a nice little banjo part over the end of this song. I was listening to a lot of Ryan Adams Gold at the time.

We talk about influences and where the album comes from. I found an old acoustic under my parents bed when I was a kid. It was so out of tune but my dad used to teach me the old Zeppelin riffs. I would sit with a microphone in front of the sound hole so I could play through the stereo. And there it might have stayed had a friend not leant him John Martyns Solid Air. I was hooked, he confesses. I fell in love with that whole image of cool hair & a brown Martin guitar. It was a world that drew him in and through Nick Drake, Richie Havens and Bob Dylan he learnt to sing and to write. It gave him a musical philosophy. A couple of chords, really letting the melody breathe over the top  nice brown corduroy sounds, and his own songs started to develop. I was listening to a lot of Van Morrison when I wrote Like Wild Fire. Its my favourite track on the record. But Ive never played it live.

We digress onto his endless search for obscure Ed Harcourt bootlegs; how the early morning is his favourite time of day (I see things more clearly. Im definitely more optimistic in the morning); he extols the virtues of a Californian singer/songwriter he has just discovered on MySpace called Ferraby Lionheart (youve really got to check him out, hes so good), and then I ask Chris about how, and where, his own album was conceived. Making Bombs was recorded on live a balcony overlooking railway bridges and the Birmingham skyline. Same time as Electric Tracks and Slow Sad Swing Song. The only song that was recorded separately was Beautiful Morning which we just did on New Years Eve in the corner of a drunken, crowded room at my friends house. I really like the electric guitar in the middle interlude on that track.

What shines through other than a real love for the music he plays, is an overriding sense of home, and of belonging. How the album was recorded in a studio in Birmingham he has known since he started. How happy he was when a local singer (shes fantastic) called Jayne Powell agreed to sing backing vocals on Like Wild Fire. How the violin part in Slow Sad Swing Song was played by a friend from the Birmingham Conservatoire, and how he vividly remembers running out of work at a DIY shop and all the way home to finish Sidesteps. Its the feeling of being stuck in a job you hate for 9 hours a day  while the ideas in your head literally bubble up and overflow. Sidesteps was very satisfying to write and it all fell out quite naturally. I dont mind saying / You people keep me from running dry he sings in Come Undone. You cant help but recall the old saying you can take the man out of Birmingham but you cant take Birmingham out of the man.

Taking the man out of Birmingham, though, looks like its already happening. A chance airing of Joanne at a party was enough to set off the chain of events leading to the eventual release of the Somewhere Down The Line album. Guy Massey (Spiritualized, the Manics, The Bees, etc.) heard some of the album demos and the 2 decamped to a London studio to start work on the follow up album with the rest of Chris band. The sessions were fast and passionate, recording in mainly live takes. There are real pop songs in there according to people who have heard them. Stephen Fretwell was in the studio after us and he came down & added vocals on a song I wrote called All There. And in between all the writing theres the touring. Sometimes with the band, sometimes on his own. Silencing the room at King Tuts in Glasgow is no mean feat for one man and a guitar. But I think he relished the challenge.

I guess at the end of it all this record is just a series of statements documenting how I became a songwriter. That pause again, longer than usual, and I look back down at my notes and the lyrics to the record weve been listening to. Found a room to be me in / Found a room where I can be myself I had underlined on Come Undone. On the strength of an album like Somewhere Down The Line its not a room Chris Tye will be able to hide in for much longer.

NO SING - live
Shot at the sold out Bloomsbury Theatre, London, supporting Bic Runga, 19 September 2006.

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LIKE WILD FIRE - live
Shot at the Glee Club, Birmingham, 13 June 2006. Guest vocalist: Jayne Powell.
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WHEN A WOMAN HAS MADE UP HER MIND - live
Shot at the Electroacoustic Club at the Slaughtered Lamb, London, 30 November 2006.

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Muthafunk	Oct 26 2009 8:42 PM Enjoyed your Actress set 2/20/09 Chris, be good to see the full line-up also... Rob G frm Mutha
Go Lazarus - Another! NEW VIDEO UP!!(Rationale)	Oct 26 2009 8:42 PM
Fairplay Collective	Oct 26 2009 8:42 PM Michael Brunnock interview with Journalist Suzanne Connolly Fairplay Collective \| MySpace Music Videos
Godiva Festival 2009	Oct 4 2009 9:39 AM Hey! We'd really appreciate your support in getting Godiva Festival on the UK Festival map! 'The Midlands biggest and best free festival' Vote for us under the 'Family Festival Award' category at the UK Festival AWards by visiting: http://www.festivalawards.com Spread the word! Much love! x
Kreis	Jul 20 2009 11:39 AM Thanks for your friendship and support. Hope you like our music. Greetings from Spain.
Vijay Kishore- DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW	Jul 14 2009 11:34 AM Easy Tye, my debut album '13 ROUNDS...' is out now on iTunes,Play.com,Hmv.com check http://www.vijaykishore.co.uk Hope all is well and cheers for the support.. spread the word.. Peace n Love.. Vijay Kishore
LucidDreams Music Group	Jul 1 2009 3:46 AM LucidDreams Music thanks you for the friendship and wishes you a successful day. Be sure to visit our MySpace Profile! Best regards, LucidDreams Music
The Tin Angel & Taylor John's House	Jun 19 2009 7:57 PM ACOUSTIC LADYLAND LIVE! SATURDAY 20TH JUNE TAYLOR JOHN'S HOUSE CV1 4LY £10 adv / £15 door / £7.50 NUS www.thetinangel.co.uk www.tinangeltickets.co.uk
This is Tomorrow	Jun 18 2009 12:58 PM Big Post Rock gig tomorrow @ The Vic...FAMR (Sigur Ros tour support) and friends.. Hope to see u there xxx
Dave	Jun 14 2009 6:06 PM Nice gig at the rainbow! Likin' New York City Rain - I just came back from there!
mocca lounge	Apr 30 2009 8:50 PM Sending you some LUV from MOCCA LOUNGE.... ..............
Muthafunk	Apr 30 2009 10:33 PM HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT!
BRAHAMAN	Apr 27 2009 8:57 AM N-JOY US...
THE WILD WEST FANCY DRESS PARTY @ MINT	Apr 21 2009 2:58 PM
The Tin Angel & Taylor John's House	Apr 19 2009 8:07 PM JEFFERY LEWIS + DON'T MOVE! SATURDAY 25th APRIL TAYLOR JOHN'S HOUSE - COVENTRY CV1 4LY £8 adv - Doors 8pm
THE EVES	Mar 10 2009 2:45 PM Alright Chris Thanks for adding the Sunday People newspaper's 'Tip for the Top' in the music world in 2009! :-) Hope u like our music. Come and have a nosey around our page and listen to our songs. Make sure u watch the video to our debut single 'Movie Star' - we think it's pretty cool! :-) Don't forget to let us know what u think. If u like what u see and hear, come catch us at a gig. Also, Movie Star is OUT NOW on download, so feel free to get a copy for 79p! Spread the word, and the love :-) Cheers The Eves PS Cool tunes by the way! :-) Good to see a fellow West Midlander doing well. Good luck with the album and stuff!
Wattsy	Mar 5 2009 9:06 AM You'll love this one. MysterySnoop . com
The Criterion Band Online Now!	Feb 27 2009 4:38 AM City Feigning Sleep
This Love Affair Online Now!	Feb 27 2009 5:15 PM Great set on Wednesday mate! You've got a fantastic voice, some great songs and excellent musicians with you! Really enjoyed listening to you all. Sorry we never got to chat at the gig, was all a bit manic! Keep up the good work man! Jay
The Criterion Band Online Now!	Feb 27 2009 4:38 AM City Feigning Sleep
Furthur Progressions	Feb 25 2009 11:32 PM Good to be connected - Welcome to Furthur Progressions! Stay tuned :) FP
LizzySpit	Feb 26 2009 1:44 PM My new double A side single LITTLE DAN / STARS IN THE WATER which has been heard on Steve Lamacq's R2 and Janice Long’s shows recently is out now. Click here to DOWNLOAD it for FREE Thanks for all your support, friendship and for listening Love Lizzy X
The Tin Angel & Taylor John's House	Feb 15 2009 11:00 PM
Dan Gallagher	Feb 11 2009 10:16 PM Hey Chris, thought I'd drop by and check out your page. It's always a breath of fresh air and inspirational for me. You inspire me to keep going and to get better. Thanks for that. All the best Dan
MOSELEY FOLK FESTIVAL	Feb 4 2009 5:24 PM

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