For Autumn 2009 in France
Peter Walsh - singing, guitar & Eliot Fish - guitar, singing & some 49 Swimming Pools & some other French voices & piano, tambourine, flugelhorn, trumpet etc
Interests
1966, Billy Wilder, Paul Delvaux's sleepwalking blondes, John Cheever and next in the lineage, Hal David, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Boyce & Hart, Rogers & Hart, Mann & Weill, Goffin & King, & speaking of kings, Burt Bacharach, you know, those Brill Building double acts, Manfred Mann (at least until '68), one Mancunian only, Graham Gouldman (at least til '68), Satie at 23, who had written pieces he cdn't listen to that the world couldn't stop listening to, McCoy Tyner and his 4ths, just like Ravel and his, and Ravel's orchestrations, and the lineage thing again too with the arrangers, Wally Stott and Peter Knight and Ivor Raymonde and Richard Hawley and Nelson Riddle, and you know who you are - when are you gonna orchestrate again? Scott 3 & Blaise Cendrars & Nelson Algren and Somebody in Boots, and Ross McDonald and liquor the colour of tears. And Martha Gellhorn, the way she wrote (Lianna), the way she lived, the way that she died...
1. Sunset Hotel
2. Mr. Somewhere
3. What's the Morning For?
4. All the Birthdays
5. Great Fool
6. Speechless With Tuesday
7. Cannot Tell the Days Apart
8. Lazarus, Lazarus
9. The Black Road Shines
"Drift"
Release Date: 1992
1. The Goodbye Train
2. On Every Corner
3. Mad Cow
4. Nothing Stops It
5. Over
6. Knowing You Were Loved
7. Places Where the Night Is Long
8. All His Stupid Friends
9. Could I Hide Here? (A Little While)
10. What's Left of Your Nerve
"A Life Full of Farewells"
Release Date: 1995
1. Things You'll Keep
2. The Failure of Love Is a Brick Wall (You Prayed for Me to Hit It)
3. You Became My Big Excuse
4. End of Some Fear
5. Not Every Clown Can Be in the Circus
6. Thank You for Making Me Beg
7. Paint the Days White
8. She Sings to Forget You
9. All the Time in the World
"Fête Foraine"
Release Date: 1996
1. What's the Morning For?
2. Knowing You Were Loved
3. Not Every Clown Can Be in the Circus
4. On Every Corner
5. Sunset Hotel
6. End of Some Fear
7. Thank You for Making Me Beg
8. Things You'll Keep
9. Paint the Days White
"Apart"
Release Date: 1997
1. Doll Hospital
2. No Hurry
3. Breakdown in Vera Cruz
4. To Live For
5. Welcome to Walsh World
6. Your Ambulance Rides
7. Friday Rich/Satuday Poor
8. World of Liars
9. Place of Bones
10. Cheerleader
11. Everything Is Given to Be Taken Away
Peter Walsh and Eliot Fish of The Apartments at l'Européen, Paris, Remembrance Day, November 11, 2009 "It's Not Our World Anymore" (alt title: "World of Liars") Thanks to Pier', who made the video.
Cher Monsieur Walsh, je tenais à vous remercier pour votre concert du 11 novembre à Paris. J'avais tellement attendu ce moment de vous voir sur scène, depuis des années, et espéré ce retour, que je ne pouvais prendre cette soirée que comme un cadeau - inestimable. Vos chansons, les plus belles du monde, vous les avez rendues vivantes, habitées. Vous les avez interprétées avec une telle densité que j'ai eu le sentiment de les entendre pour la première fois. Vous avez eu le courage et la force de vous exposer à nouveau, et avec quelle classe. Bon retour en Australie. Thanks, thanks again. You've got now all the time in the world. Fidèlement, David
Thanks Peter for coming in Paris. That was great and quite moving. Since yesterday, i'm listening to "fête foraine". It sounds cool and intimate, like yesterday's concert. Hope to hear from you soon...
Thank you so much Peter for this concert to Paris. Many thrills this envening. Yours songs and your voice are great. My favorite song : Mr Somewhere: I looooove it! And the last song that you played alone, was wonderfull too (but I don't know the title!). I hope you will come back soon in France. In the audience, people was very touched, and it was really magic. Merci, merci, merci.
Voilà comment commence la chronique parue dans Le Monde de ce week end : "Joli miracle dans le genre pop française qui lorgne vers les Anglo-Saxons : le groupe 49 SWIMMING POOLS"
L'album est dans les bacs depuis le 14 septembre 2009.
The Apartments de retour sur scène pour trois jours en France!... Comment un tel miracle est-il possible?... Thanks a lot M. Walsh. Fidèlement, David (from Lille)
