After five years of experimental music projects Paul Kelly will release “a normal record”.
Kelly admits he has been releasing albums “that from a record company point of view were off the beaten track”. One album was songs for funerals, another Shakespeare sonnets. There was even a soul album. While the albums have been out there Paul says he had the support of his record label all the way through.
“This record Life Is Fine is as close to a normal record that I’ll probably get,” he said of the new album.
‘Life Is Fine’ is “upbeat, colourful, a full band record,” he says. It will feature a song about cooking and another about man-flu.
He says the new album is the closest thing he has done to his records of the 80s. This will be a rock record. The band includes Vika and Linda Bull are on vocals, Ashley Naylor on guitar, Bill McDonald on bass, Cameron Bruce on keys and Peter Luscombe on drums. “It’s a band with lots of strong opinions,’’ Kelly says. “I guess our one rule is to try every idea. By playing it you find out pretty quickly whether things are working or not.”
Paul Kelly ‘Life Is Fine’ will be released on August 11, 2017.
