I was honoured to have Paul Hume & Tim Manford playing lead guitars on “Beggars Gold” and Paul on “Church Of A Restless Soul” but as this album was going to be a little different, I asked Miles Meakin as I am a big fan of his playing and some of his work includes retrowave/video games styles which I was going for a modern 80s style. Is that because Miles’ playing fits better to the direction of the album? Or was Paul Hume unavailable this time? You also changed the recording team a bit and joined forces with Miles Meakin of M IDNITE C ITY. Yes, I wrote a total of 15 songs for the album but left 3 out. It stood us in good stead for the AOR/Melodic Rock style that we had forged in FANTAZIA, performing up and down the UK.ĭid you write all the songs o n “Hot Endless Summer Nights” alone or was it a collaborative effort? I was in a band before FANTAZIA called NO HARD FEELING and we pretty much covered the whole of the “American Heartbeat” album leading us to get our first record deal with Spirit Records in 1984. I have an impression that your new album is a kind of a flashback to F ANTAZIA ’s time. The starting point was as I always start … a guitar, an amp and a dictaphone, the same way that I have done ever since I was 14 years old. This album had to be different for me and also I knew that there were a lot of releases this year so I wanted it to have a different flavor. There’s plenty of time as I have many ideas to continue that course at a later date. I didn’t want to just continue in the same vein as “Beggars Gold” or “Church Of A Restless Soul” would have felt stale to me, the easy option. Yeah, I had that vision from the very start. What was the starting point for “Hot Endless Summer Nights”? Was it obvious for you that it w ould be an album with an 80’s vibe? They say, “out of the darkness, comes a ray of light” and gladly, I continued to finish it.
Although I had more time to write and record it due to the pandemic, it was made up of many layers and some things happened during the making of that album that made me think twice about if I should finish it or not. Apart from family time and home schooling, it gave me a clear run at it. The one good thing to come out of the lockdown was that it gave me time to write and record “Church Of A Restless Soul” and pour myself into it. How did you go through the lockdown and all these restrictions? Did they affect your life and music? I guess when you were recording “Church O f A Restless Soul” you couldn’t even imagine this pandemic would break out. So let’s leave the world behind for a while and jump into this journey with Tony! Believe me, Tony managed to do almost impossible thing – give you the feeling of being young, restless and ready to conquer the world. But hey, since then Tony has released many records with different bands and projects and now he is ready to unleash his third solo album! The album has everything you love about him and the title “Hot Endless Summer Nights” says it all. Well, people tend to remember good bands with classy songs. Do I really need to tell you who T ONY M ITCHELL is? As he said himself, “most people know me from the 90’s K ISS OF THE G YPSY ”.
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