We Only Love You, Revisited?
After seeing footage of Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller doing a live remix set in Europe a few weeks back, I’ve revived my interest in doing a performance of our We Only Love You album. I think Halou, in almost every way, was at its least compelling during those days, but the songs themselves aren’t to blame for that. We still get a lot of requests to play those songs and I think, done in the right way with some new tricks, it could be worthwhile.
I’ve been planning on picking up a Launchpad, the Novation Live! controller, for a while now and I’m thinking this might be the right context to play around with it. The We Only Love You tracks never really lent themselves to a traditional live performance, so manipulating the individual tracks and samples along with Rebecca’s live vocals could be interesting enough to me to make it worth working out.
The other I’d be interested in is pressing up a limited re-issue of the album itself, as I know many people haven’t been able to find a copy for themselves. I have been in touch with original designer Ryan Hicks, now at Adobe, to consider re-approaching the cover and I’ve got my eye on some new packaging ideas. We’ll see if we can pull it all together and make something happen once the Feathersongs project is behind us.
I highly support this! I have been using Live 8 a lot lately and the Launchpad is an amazing controller
I’m looking forward to being able to see you guys sometime in the near future. Love you guys,
Baltar
That would be excellent! I got We Only Love You (and Sans Soucie) through the Bedazzled Records Monthly CD club, but lost the album somewhere along the way before I could burn mp3s. When I saw Halou live in 2003 I thought the earlier tracks sounded lush and full (having a cellist helped, if I remember correctly). It would be interesting to hear reinterpretations of those tracks, particularly given the differences in sound between Stripmall Architecture and early Halou. Yes please!