Man, I'm bummed that livestream failed and then we never saw it. At least upload it after the fact! They played two new songs! Let me hear at least one of em.
I’m pretty sure they played at least 3-4 new songs. They did a set of older songs and a set of songs from the new album but I don’t remember how many new ones they did.
Do you think there will be any sort of Scott Hutchison inspired song on new Bad Books? I don’t know exactly when everything was recorded, but these guys were all friends. Kevin’s wrote about loss quite uniquely and beautifully in the past.
I'm wondering how new any of the songs actually will be. It seems like they have been working on BBIII for years - on and off. I remember Andy talking about it 2-3 years ago and they've definitely posted stuff on social media being in the studio with Kevin in the past 3-4 years. You'd think with 7 years in between albums, that many of the songs that will appear on the record could feasibly be 4-5 years old.
I think they said at the show that they recorded / wrote the songs that made the album over a few sessions over a two year period. Every few months they would regroup and write specifically for BBIII and it is more cohesive and has an arching concept unlike the first record which was a collection of songs they each had lying around and BBII where they brought ideas to each other and fleshed it out. Ps: I was definitely pretty drunk by this point in the day so I may be fumbling some of this explanation.
I don’t know if timing wise between when he had passed and when they recorded if it was even possible. I believe Kevin was hinting at how Scott was going to a Devinyl with him, and Kevin mentioned something about his song title. With everything happening right around those few days, obviously things were put aside for more important reasons. I know it’s a personal subject, but as I said, Kevin has went there before, and I believe these three guys would do something g appropriate given time. Kevin played the Tribute show to Scott along with many others. It was pretty powerful but sad listening to it considering The events that lead them there.
saw kevin released that TFB cover today - wonder if they were waiting for the news around his last split series to wrap up before doing BB stuff.
I didn’t agree with everyone saying how ridiculous it was that we didn’t get a single or any info last week but the fact that we’ve gone almost a whole week again is kinda wild
Kevin just posted his side of the Devinyl Split yesterday (Front Bottoms cover), so as it was mentioned above, maybe they decided to give it some space before putting out a single for Bad Books, and that I get.
They didn’t announce a release date yet. I’m going to assume there is a reason. These guys are pros. Maybe they are booking tour dates to coincide with a single/album announcement.