Red Sky July’s fourth album comes out just as they play The Folklore Rooms in Brighton on March 8.
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely this
00:06afternoon to speak to ex-Texas Ali McIrlane, and now you are on the road celebrating a
00:11new album with Red Sky July, album number four. It's called Misty Morning, isn't it?
00:17And it's coming out very shortly. You'll be heading to Brighton, and it's the new album,
00:23the first album with your new singer, isn't it?
00:25Yeah, yeah.
00:26Relatively new singer.
00:27Well, yeah, well, she has, we still think that it's new, but she reminded us a couple
00:34of days ago that she's actually been in the band for five years.
00:36And this is the first album, then?
00:39Yeah, but it's taken us that long to make an album.
00:42Yeah, and you're saying that the nature of the trio changes with the new singer. Your
00:46previous singer was American.
00:48Yeah, well, the previous singer was American, so there was a, and we love country music,
00:54so it was based on country music to start with, but more left field. And Charity was
01:03really the element that made it country, because she had a real southern accent, so she always,
01:08even if she wasn't singing a country song, it sounded country, because she just was country.
01:13Whereas Hayley, who is also American, but has grown up here, has got an English accent,
01:20and she's kind of more influenced by the folk. So, yeah, she does a lot of music teaching
01:27and music for well-being and stuff like that. So she's quite coming from a different place.
01:36So how would you describe the changes in sound in this new album, which is imminent, isn't it?
01:42Yeah, well, I think it's became quite experimental, because we had a lot of time to work on it.
01:50And over the Covid times, when there was no shows happening, and we kept changing it,
01:56like I was telling you earlier, we kept changing and writing new songs, and then trying to make it all
02:02come together as one project, and for it all to sound like it all matched together,
02:07was quite difficult. So, yeah, but I think we kind of managed to get all the 10 songs together,
02:15and then we got our friend Rory to mix it all, so it all sounds, Rory Carlyle,
02:21that is, so it all sounds like it kind of fits as one piece together.
02:27It sounds great, and the nice thing is you're going back in time,
02:29you're releasing this one as vinyl, aren't you?
02:32We are, yeah.
02:33Why?
02:33Yeah.
02:34Why?
02:35Well, I think it's just so we've got something physical to show for all our labours, because
02:45I just, we used to have CDs and we'd sell at gigs, but no one really has CD players anymore, so
02:55we really wanted to have something, well, just like a physical thing, and because we had our
03:02friend Ella May Statham did really nice artwork for the album, we wanted to get it made into a
03:07kind of physical record so that we could show off her painting that she did for us.
03:13So you're just looking at the artwork now, it's a really striking cover you've got,
03:16you need something big to display that, don't you?
03:19Well, yeah, but what she does is, I think they're called kind of dreamscapes,
03:25I think that's what she calls them, and it's like she'll take, she'll do them for people,
03:31and she'll put a little bit of, she'll find out things about them and see what they're like,
03:36and events that have happened in her life, and then put all those things into a painting,
03:40and with our album cover, she's made all the little images on the album relate to the
03:45songs on the album, like there's two magicians, there's a swimming pool for a pool party,
03:50there's stars for stars turned cold, so all the things, the elements of the painting relate to
03:56the songs that are on the album.
03:58Well, it looks great. Well, Annie, lovely to speak to you, good luck with the launch,
04:03and lovely to hear that you're heading to Brighton, thank you.
04:05Yeah, we're looking forward to Brighton, yeah, great, love Brighton.
04:09Thank you, see you later.
04:10Thanks, Phil, cheers.