Gordon Banks
Future
What’s Next…
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Returning to the business full time in 2015 began to allow a reordering in Gordon’s life and it wasn’t long before pen, paper and guitar were back at work.
Gordon was anxious for a long period to get back into the studio to create new ideas, new songs, and a very late follow-up album to It never made the news.
By this time sadly Davie Paterson had died in a car accident, so Gordon’s spiritual home wasn’t an option.
Looking around and spending time to come up with a studio where Gordon was a good fit was hampered with Covid but eventually Gordon remembers coming across SubStation in Rosyth.
Fixing up a meeting with Michael Brennan to discuss options led to Gordon beginning to work there on his new and in some instances not so new songs.
Gordon says, “Michael and I got on well from the outset and that’s vital to me. I really must feel comfortable in a studio…you know you are trying to be creative and express often deeply held feelings. You can’t do this well without an understanding with the person you are working with.
I have to say I had no idea how successful Michael was and how respected he was in the music industry when I trundled along to have a chat with him…. I do now…and thankfully I made the right decision!”
Working in SubStation Gordon is moving towards completing his much delayed follow up album, titled Roulette in collaboration with some of the country’s top musicians including The Zephyrs and Carl Williams and Peter Little from Empire Music Productions.
More information on the stories behind Gordon’s songs can be read in the “Behind the songs” section of the website but as a taster, Roulette is about dementia, Rose of Jericho is a love song to his wife Lynda, Paint your face is a new version of a 1987 composition about his daughter, Moderate man is a reworking of a poem written by Gordon’s late brother Gary, The mirror never lies (part of the charm) and Sleep are songs about and to his oldest grandsons Lucas and Ollie. 35 men is a tribute to all those who lost their lives in the Valleyfield Mining disaster on 28th Oct 1939, including Gordon’s grandfather Alexander, whilst A postcard from Rome is a message to Lucas from Papa.
A way of life is a foray into a rockier sphere (as is Moderate man) but this time a result of choosing something frivolous to write about…shoes!
Songs can be deeply meaningful or just fun!
Gordon hopes to follow up the release of Roulette with some live promotional gigs where the whole album and a couple of numbers from It never made the news will form the set with the support of the best musicians around…watch this site for further news.
Thereafter a 4 song EP is probably the next offering you will hear from Gordon.
Again. Watch this space!