TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Ian Broudie

TITLE: Tales Told

LABEL: Deltasonic Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

204kbps avg - Rock
0hr 34min total- 52.7mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-10-04
RIP DATE: 2004-08-24

01 Song For No One                2:37

03 He Sails Tonight               3:05

05 Got No Plans                   2:21
06 Always Knocking                4:04

10 Home From Home                 1:43

This Autumn welcomes the return of one
of Liverpools favourite song-writing
sons and a refreshing progression to a
more natural, stripped-down sound which
includes acoustic guitars, banjos and
harmonies. More recently associated
with producing Mercury-nominated albums
by The Coral and The Zutons, Tales Told
captures Ian Broudie moving on to the
next chapter in what has been an
eccentric musical journey. It felt like
going home doing this album. Picking up
a guitar and strumming. Dead simple.

Tales Told is just that, songs about
your life and how you live it, Its hard
to be specific, the songs arent usually
about one thing, theyre about many things
that overlap, eventually coming together
as one idea. Broudies recent listening
includes songwriters Johnny Cash and
Nick Drake, Some songwriters have a knack
of saying things in a direct way. Music
can be guarded and cynical these days
so I wanted to do something different
to everything else. Says Ian.

The album began about 3 or 4 years ago
before Ian became distracted by some
young lads from Hoylake, Id started
writing the album and then I heard The
Coral and I started putting my energy into
producing their records. Tales Told then
morphed from Ian and an acoustic guitar
to having guest musicians from these
recording sessions in Liverpool.
Members of The Coral and The Zutons have
contributed and are proud of their work
as James Skelly explains, I love the
album, its boss. I reckon its some of
the best stuff hes ever done. A lot of
it was written before he even worked with

This is an album with so many
highlights that just grows and grows
the deeper you get  check the twanging
ballad that is Smoke Rings, the
folk-skank of Always Knocking, the
off-kilter skiffle of Got No Plans to
the bossanova of Lipstick.

Ians first band were Big In Japan, a band
so diverse they numbered future members
of Siouxsie And The Banshees (Budgie)
and the KLF (Bill Drummond). They were
also one of the bands, along with Joy
Division and Cabaret Voltaire, to grace
Fac001 the poster famously designed by
Peter Saville in 1978 for the Factory
club night at the Russell Club in

Once Ian realised life in a studio was
preferable to life in a tour van, Echo
& The Bunnymen became the first
full-time production job, producing the
Crocodiles and Porcupine albums.
Following this Ian produced albums for
Terry Hall, The Bodines, The Fall, The
Pale Fountains and Dodgy amongst others
before concentrating on his own songs as
The Lightning Seeds.

Looking to the future, Tales Told seems
to have become a happy trigger for
more work, I want to get on and do
another album now. Looks like there are
plenty more tales to be told.

Enjoy and always expect more!!