Euros Childs - Cheer Gone

TRACK LISTING FOR BONUS cd

B'WICH'D: A WICHITA RECORDINGS COMPILATION

01. Those Dancing Days - Home Sweet Home (Rough Mix)
- An early mix track from the forthcoming debut album
02. Lovvers - Human Hair
- Taken from the forthcoming Think EP
03. Sky Larkin - Antibodies (Demo)
- Demo of a song taken from their forthcoming album
04. Los Campesinos - How I taught myself to scream
- previously unreleased song from the "Hold on now youngster..." Session
05. The Bronx - Knifeman
- Taken from the forthcoming album 'The Bronx'
06. Les Sav Fav - Meet me in the dollar bin
- taken from the album "Inches"
07. Conor Oberst - I dont want to die (in a hospital)
- taken from the album " Conor Oberst"
08. Peter Moren - tell Me in time
- taken from the album "The last tycoon"
09. Greg Weeks - Burn the margins
- taken from the forthcoming album "The hive"
10. Euros Childs
- Saving up to get married - taken from the album "cheers gone"
11. Meg Baird - maiden in the moor lay - taken from the album "dear  
companion"
12. the Dodos - paint the rust
- taken from the album "Visiter"
13. Peter, Bjorn and John - Island Empire
- taken from the album "Seaside Rock"
14. Simian Mobile Disco - I got this down (Invisible conga people remix)
- taken from the album, "Sample and Hold: Attack Decay Sustain Release  
Remixed"
15. Her Space Holiday - This year in review"
- taken from the forth coming album, "The New Kid Revival"

TRACKLISTING: AUTUMN LEAVES / SUMMER DAYS / HER WAYS / NINETEEN FIFTIES / MY LOVE IS GONE / ALWAYS THINKING OF HER / FARM HAND MURDER / SAVING UP TO GET MARRIED / O EIN DEAR / MEDICINE HEAD / SING SONG SONG

OVERVIEW: The wonderful Mr Euros Childs releases his fourth album CHEER GONE on Sept 15 on Wichita Recordings.  For this album – the follow-up to last years “The Miracle Inn”- the prolific ex Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci frontman travelled to Nashville, Tennessee to make the record, recruiting musicians such as Lampchop’s Matt Swanson along the way…

Let Euros explain……“In November of last year, at the end of a three week American tour, fellow muscians Steven Black (bass), Peter Richardson (drums) and myself were booked in to record an album in Nashville, Tennessee with engineer Mark Nevers.
Recorded live over six days, sessions were easy going stress free affairs, starting at 11am and winding down around tea time. We never played a song more than a handful of times and most were captured in the first or second take. The fact that the studio was also Mark's house probably added to the relaxed atmosphere of the sessions. As a result, I can't help feeling slighlty guilty that the recording sessions didn't require the usual exausting thirteen hour days and endless takes of songs. The album came together so quickly that I can barely recall the recording. And from a personal point of view this makes for a good listening experience, even to the extent that it feels a bit like listening to somebody else's record. The whole album sounds very fresh to me.
Cheer Gone isn't a country record. It was recorded in Nashville because I like the sound of Mark Nevers' records. If he had been recording in Port Talbot we would have gone there to record. Having said that the album does feature some fine Nashville musicians who have been known to play in the country style: Chris Scruggs who played some lap steel and acoustic guitar, Jamey Lampkins who plucked the banjo, veteran session fiddle player Glen Duncan and Matt Swanson of Lambchop who played bass on 'Saving up to get married'.

Euros Childs is a mercurial talent. As a teenager he released his first album, as a founding member of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, back in 1993 and now, since they called time over 10 years later, he is about to release his fourth solo album. That’s a mere four albums in three years, each one different in character, each one both an expected and unexpected delight.  First up was the delightfully dilettante Chops; then, last year, the Welsh language pop album Bore Da; and shortly afterwards came The Miracle Inn. Now comes Cheer Gone…

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