The Black Ships is the new band by Verve's guitarist Nick McCabe and bass player Simon Jones, together with electric violinist and arranger Davide Rossi and drummer Mig Schillace.
Nick and Simon met Davide during the making of The Verve's last record Forth, where he helped with the string arrangements and some electric violin playing. They eventually joined on stage for some of their headlines at Glastonbury, V Festivals and Summercase, plus other appearances on TV and radio in the UK.
After the Verve finished touring in August 2008, it was decided that something new should emerge from such a meeting. That took shape in November 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the band met for the first time to play and record new material straight away.
It was then that Nick brought with him long time friend and collaborator Mig Schillace, to complete the rhythmic section and with it the core line-up of the band.
Since then the boys have been and are still working on it! It's a slow process, which needs the care and time that it needs, but music fans out there should expect some teasers real soon!
Hello Nick and Simon, its "dirty dirty sex" Joey. I just thought you like to see my new toy. Congrats on the new band. If you want a little extra noise in the mix, I can whip up a sick WAV file , no problem. :)
This is great - likin' the way it slowly ramps up, hitting a harder edge at about 2 1/2 minutes, then shifting gears again about 4 minutes in and heading up then back down for the conclusion - just about everything you could ask for, really....
Nice to hear those wee loops eddying back and forth underneath, bringing, ah, I dunno something from No Come Down to mind....
Only--but this is rare-- When Si's beloved bass towers when, jaded with the rush and glare of the interminable hours, our eyes can in another's eyes read clear when our radio-damaged ear is by the tones of David's violin caressed-- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. We're finally aware of our life's flow, and hear its winding murmur; and we see the meadows where it glides, the sun, the sea. And there arrives a lull in waiting for an album wherein we doth for ever chase That flying and elusive riff from inside the guitar case an air of peace and coolness on Sir Nick's face an unwonted calm pervades our head and we think we know the hills where our life rose and to the sea where it goes!
Davide, I was shooting this weekend on The Cape and came across Antique Old Wooden Asian Sailing Man , sitting a top the wooden rafters of a shops ceiling. I had a take a photo of this and send it to you all. As it reminded me of the name of your new band and the trade deals the Black Ships would do in Asia! Photo by Kelley
thanks for the add!!!
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