Following the critically acclaimed release of Surrounded By Mountains in April 2009, comes the third album of beautifully crafted pop songs, Miss The Last Wave, from The Pogues’ bass player Darryl Hunt under the moniker, Bish. On Miss The Last Wave Darryl is again ably assisted by Knut Knutson who hails from the British sector in West Berlin and is an artist in his own right, and Bernd Hartwich & Andreas Höhne from the Munich indie pop combo der Englische Garten on bass & drums respectively. Darryl sings and plays guitar whilst Knut performs on guitar and Hammond organ. Darryl’s old friend Debsey (Dolly Mixture) helps out on vocals too. The album was recorded by Brian O’Shaughnessy at Bark Studios, London, E17 and is being released on LFT Records.

Darryl Hunt has a long association with The Pogues, occasionally playing bass for the band before joining them permanently in September 1986. Darryl started out playing bass with the Nottingham-based Plummet Airlines who formed whilst at art college before going on to sign to Stiff Records with whom they released the double-A side single, ‘Silver Shirt’/’This Is The World’. He then sang and played in The Favourites whose 1979 version of Abba’s SOS was Annie Nightingale’s Single of the Week at the time. A second single Anjelica was released in 1980. He was also a member of Pride Of The Cross with Cait O’Riordan and Dave Scott, releasing the single Tommy’s Blue Valentine on Big Beat in 1985. As well as writing songs for Bish, Darryl also writes material for The Pogues and his song Love You Till The End, written for the group’s last album is sung by Hilary Swank in the film P.S. I Love You in which she co-starred in 2007. Darryl remains busy with The Pogues who continue to tour at home and abroad. Bish will tour in support of Miss The Last Wave later this year and dates will be announced shortly.

Scott Walker will finally release Bish Bosch this December, his long-awaited and first studio album since 2006’s The Drift.

Since the 1960s, Scott Walker has scaled the heights of pop superstardom, produced some of the most revered solo albums of the late sixties, coasted on his laurels during the seventies, then metamorphosed into something very different. The music he has been making at his own pace since the early eighties might be utterly estranged from the songs that made him a household name, but they stem from the privacy he requires to write this complex and hugely inventive music.

Bish Bosch is the latest in Scott’s discography to pursue the line of enquiry he began back in 1978, with his four devastatingly original songs on the Walker Brothers’ swansong, Nite Flights, and continuing through Climate of Hunter (1984), Tilt (1995), The Drift (2006). He has continued to mature and develop in a late style utterly at odds with the music that made him a superstar, a lifetime ago, but which is totally honest, uncompromising and transcendent.

Scott began writing new material around 2009 - whilst also scoring the ROH 2’s Duet For One Voice ballet - recording it sporadically over the following three years. Aided again by co-producer Peter Walsh and joined by the regular core of musicians, Ian Thomas (drums), Hugh Burns (guitar), James Stevenson (guitar), Alasdair Malloy (percussion) and John Giblin (bass).

Musical director Mark Warman also played a prominent role, both as conductor and keyboardist, while guests include trumpeter Guy Barker and pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, who worked on three of Scott’s midseventies LPs. For three tracks (‘SDSS1416+13B’, ‘Dimple’ and ‘Corps de Blah’), Scott drafted in an orchestra, recording them in The Hall at Air Studios last November.

If The Drift was a dark place, full of scorching orchestral textures and ominous rumblings, Bish Bosch is a tauter but more colourful experience, with greater emphasis on processed, abrasive guitars, digital keyboards and thick silences.

Bish Bosch is released on December 3rd and a comprehensive booklet accompanies the album. For the cover art, Scott worked closely with painter Ben Farquharson and designer Philip Laslett.

TRACK LISTING

‘See You Don’t Bump His Head’
Corps De Blah
Phrasing
SDSS1416+13B (Zercon,
A Flagpole Sitter)
Epizootics!
Dimple
Tar
Pilgrim
The Day The “Conducator” Died