Lord Large presents The Lords First Eleven
featuring the hit single Left Right & Centre.
Sun In The Sands.
Stuck In A Wind Up.
Closer.
What Did I Do?
Way To Go.
Julianna.
Heath Robinson.
The Auctioneer.
Work It Out.
Fading Light.
Left Right and Centre.
Dont Stick Around Too Long.
AJX182 CD/LP
Out 5th FEB 2007.
It is difficult to know where to begin a story with a character as enigmatic as Lord Large. Transported from a time long ago into the 21st century, this debonair devote of sartorial elegance and musical vignettes will whisk you into a whimsical world that is long forgotten. He has crafted exquisitely elegant songs, lavishly laced them with strings, pianos and organ breaks. Inserted delightful melodies and then peppered them all with paisley. Yet no one knows quite who Lord Large is.
Lord Large was a member of the Electric Soft Parade and won a Q award for ‘best new act’ as well as getting a Mercury Prize nomination. He has supported Oasis, The Who & David Bowie. He has just recorded and been on tour with The Ordinary Boys and plays on Graham Coxon’s new album. He has also managed to fit in recording and touring two Solo albums with Glenn Tilbrook.
No modern day hero is without a right hand man. Like a Watson to a Holmes, permanently by Lord
Large’s side is the chief-of-security Andrew J. Jones. Mr Jones is the chief brains behind the organisation. Andrew’s music will already be familiar to you as he has written & produced over a dozen TV theme’s as well as touring and recording with Morcheeba on the ‘Big Calm’ album and co-producing the soon to be released album ‘The Debt Collector’ from The Shortwave Set.
Together, they were the formidable unit Koot. Signed to Warners for a fee well over £1m they achieved considerable success touring with the likes of Cypress Hill, Alabama 3 and Moby.
However it was whilst performing at their Sunday Sermon night in London that the idea for Lord Large was conceived. Playing weekly over a four year period to crowds of 400 or more with an eight-piece band, the idea was hatched to produce an album of classic original songs with appearances from the crème de la crème of the musicians at the Sermon.
Teaming up with Acid Jazz they were given carte blanche to work with a plethora of esoteric talent drawn from all walks of life. Thus, debut album ‘The Lord’s First X1’, yields a diverse collection of vocal performances including Clem Curtis (The Foundations), the legendary Roy Phillips (The Peddlers) who they eventually tracked down in New Zealand where they recorded his vocal, a stunning performance from Robert Bradley, a blind busker they found on the streets of Detroit and recorded there and then. Add to that British soul goddess Linda Lewis, jazz-trombone maestro Ashley Slater (freakpower), ex-Squeeze frontman Glen Tilbrook and new star in the making Louise Marshall.
With talent like this on offer and a purpose built studio using vintage equipment, success is a racing certainty. Theirs is a total vision of sound and production, matched with songs of the highest order.