Paul Smith: Album Is More "Personal" Than "Solo"
Maximo Park frontman reassures fans the band is not over...
Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith said he does not want people to get the wrong idea about his forthcoming solo record and claims that it doesn't spell the end of the band.
"Technically it is a solo album," he told Xfm's Rich Walters, "But whenever I hear somebody say solo album I kinda of think that they have left their band and they are going for a reach for stardom which I would be embarrassed to say. I’m still in Maximo Park, it’s just something I wanted to put out.”
Paul describes his new album ‘Margins’ – which comes out October 11 – as an “intimate record” but explained that new Maximo Park songs are in the making. "We’ve got a few irons in the fire. People needn’t worry too much about our next album - it’s in the process of being written - but over the last four years or so I’d just kind of recorded a song in a day round my friend's house. He’d play the drums on it and I’d play the guitar sometimes I’d sing a bit differently and I ended up feeling like I had 12 or 13 songs that I would like to put out.”
Smith is embarking on a UK tour following its release. The dates are:
November 26 - Nottingham - The Bodega Social Club
November 27 - Leeds - The Brudenell Social Club
November 28 Birmingham - Glee Club
November 29 - Bristol - Thekla
December 1 - London - Bush Hall
December 2 - Manchester - Deaf Institute
December 3 - Glasgow - Classic Grand
December 4 - Gateshead - Sage 2
Tagged as Maximo Park, Albums
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