Norman Blake is feeling a little fragile as he greets The Yorkshire Post. The night before he’d been out at the launch of his friend John Niven’s “amazing” memoir, O Brother, in Glasgow, and he admits a little sheepishly: “We went for a couple of drinks afterwards. I’d not seen him for a while, so it was good fun.
Hangovers aside, the 57-year-old singer and guitarist is on good form as he discusses Nothing Lasts Forever, the 13th album by his long-running band Teenage Fanclub. It’s a breezier affair than its predecessor, Endless Arcade, with Blake and his long-time compadre Raymond McGinley looking forward in its 10 tracks, rather than back. “There is some intention in the title – here’s a band who’ve been around for 35 years making an LP that’s called Nothing Lasts Forever,” Blake notes.
But I guess that’s indicative, it’s an optimistic and forward-looking record. It’s not a dark place, we are in quite a light place as a band.” Back To The Light is a musical nod to Big Star, the 1970s cult power-pop band fronted by Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, who remain an abiding inspiration for Teenage Fanclub. Blake recalls bonding with McGinley over the first two Big Star albums back when they were teenagers.
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