My Blog # 010 including information on Tory Boys

As prophicised in my previous blog, I have run into troubles releasing my latest album 'Tory Boys'. I am currently seeking legal help to get this resolved as quickly as possible. It seems despite being a co-owner of BOTB-Records subsidiary label 'tifg_projects' I have no freedom to release music ever again. I am appealing to try and move (what remains!) of my back-catalogue over to the main BOTB-Records label but there seems to be a conspiracy against me as nobody is replying to my requests. This is an incredibly angering time and I thank Eileen for her patience and my father for putting a roof over my head.

So what next? Well I suppose the most important thing is that you, the fan, are able to get a copy of 'Tory Boys'...

I am able to produce a small quantity of homemade CD-R copies for £10 each. You can order one directly by commenting on this blog (I am currently trying to set up a paypal account but having problems). Alternately, you can send a self-addressed envelope plus cheque to:

Mr R. McButt
37B Wilson Street
Thurso
Scotland 

Or, stream it now on MySpace.

I know that many people these days illegally download music; if you feel the need to do this, please be honest and send me £10 in the post. Here is the artwork if you want to print your own CD sleeve at home:

I have just noticed some spelling errors on the back sleeve, the correct tracklist is as follows:

1. Tory Boys (Living a Lie)
2. I Smell Brown
3. The Wicked Widow & The Haggered Willow
4. When All This Is Over.
5. A Man's Best Friend?
6. My Heroine Days
7. Rationality Avoiding (A Mantra)
8. Obsessive Possessive [Tribute to JLC]

For anyone curious as to what the seventh Garibaldi album would have been like under my control, my penultimate draft track-list was as follows:

1. Fax Machine
   (I campaigned for a rewrite of the lyrics, giving the album opener a more serious subject matter)
2. Track 1 (A Short Story) [became 'Meat Music']
   (This would have included a short story I wrote instead of the current vocals)
3. If You Only Knew
   (This should have been the third single from the album)
4. Just Another Day
   (This was the second single)
5. Speechless
   (This was the first single)
6. For Folk's Sake
7. Rory's Rockin' Rock Song [became 'Rory's Mighty Sword']
   (This was supposed to be the grand centerpiece of the album; not the throwaway comedy b-side it became under artistic control that wasn't mine)
8. Late Last Night (On the Promenade) [became 'Late Last Night']
   (This would have been more akin to "When This Is Over." from Tory Boys Recreated)
9. A Man's Best Friend [became 'Kelp!']
10. Heroin Days [became 'Heroin Daze (Song for Scotland)']
    (Having initially intending this to be an album closer, I eventually decided it was far too negative a way to end a record and suggested the talking be removed from the end, and the track moved here)
11. The Mantra
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes
13. Highs & Lows On Crack Street
    (An obvious album closer)

'Tory Boys (Recreated)' recreates the 8 song final draft I intended to release which mostly featured new vocal parts I recorded:

1. Tory Boys
   ('Fax Machine' with a new vocal part by me, featuring an early draft of the lyrics that became 'Tory Boys' on Recreated)
2. If You Only Knew
   (For instrumentation reasons, on Recreated, I replaced this track with a remake of 'Texas Is Friggin' Great')
3. Folk Song
   ('For Folk's Sake' with all vocals erased except mine and Edith Jazz's)
4. Late Last Night / Synthesized Mayhem 4.0
   (I didn't have time to re-record Late Last Night in the preferred arrangement that appears on Recreated, so would have segued the version that existed at the time with 'Synthesized Mayhem')
5. A Man's Best Friend?
   ('Kelp!' with a new vocal take and the lyrics that appear on Recreated)
6. Heroin Days
   (Featuring my own vocal take alongside David's narration, fading out around the 7 minute mark)
7. The Mantra
   (I erased the vocals on this track and re-recorded an emotionally moving take)
8. Something Wicked This Way Comes (A Capella)
   (The arrangement released as 'The Sound Of Space (Part II)' for some reason)

None of my last minute re-records appear on 'Something for everyone to dislike.'