Carpe Diem - The Boys From Melbourne Street

Carpe Diem - The Boys From Melbourne Street

Carpe Diem which is Latin for Sieze the Day or taking chances, or go with your instincts etc, well, whatever it means to you, this album is a reflection of the times when we should have done all of those things but didn't,and of the times when we did and made the right choices with no regrets either, which  incidentally is the title of the 11th track which we did not record this time round as wee decided to save it for the fourth album (if we ever get round to it) as the third had already been written and tracks decided upon.



The album cover is by kind permission from David Eustace from a picture called "Hopeless Romantic" which I thought was very apt for this second offering by the Boys, and the album graphics and design was done by James Wilson, an up and coming Illustrator from Bristol who specializes mostly in Heavy Metal album covers and who also played electric guitar in "Watching Over You".

The songs have been influenced from a variety of sources including "Four Weddings and a Funeral" which triggered "At Last", "Dangerous Love" has a line in it from a movie starring Jack Nicholson who said at the end "How much reality can you take in one day" go on, see if you can spot the film title in this write up, and "If I lost My Mobile" was from a piece of research by Vodaphone into texting habits and discovering the frightening fact that more and more people rely on their phones to have a relationship than ever before, is it true that Phil Collins dumped his wife by texting her?, I dunno, but thats the rumour. "Dancing on Air" was a result of watching a young couple at a wedding trying not to get too close but failing miserably under the watchful eye of said girl's fella, almost blood in the champers that night.

So the difference between "Songs From The Heart " and  Carpe Diem is the different harmony lines and overlays, we used a different approach to the production, Beatski Studio has upgraded recording software, we learnt quite a bit from our first sojourn into digital studio techniques and we discovered that Keith is not only a fine Bass player but also a mean Electric guitarist as well and gave us some lovely twiddly bits on a few tracks,and thats as good as it gets really.I suppose it's the next step in the big story for those of you who have been following the songs from our humble beginnings as a band to where we are now.

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