Maker record album with Oasis instruments before gig at Night & Day
| 28th February 2018
Psychedelic four-piece, Maker, will launch their debut album DEA at Manchester’s Night and Day Café on Sunday 8 April.
Despite being from Kent, Maker have many connections with Manchester’s very own Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher and Oasis – and even used some of their instruments on DEA.
The album was recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales where Oasis, The Stone Roses, Queen, Black Sabbath, Kasabian, and many more, have all recorded seminal albums.
When you turn up at Rockfield it immediately elevates you as musicians. There’s a tangible buzz about the place. You hear stories like Freddy Mercury sat on that stool, played that piano, wrote Bohemian Rhapsody. And Liam chased Noel with a cricket bat over there, Lemmy did a line of coke off that horse etc….When you hear those stories, you can’t help but want to be a part of it and record something special.”
The album was recorded over just fourteen days and the band wanted to create an album as true to their live sound as possible and, with this in mind, every track was recorded with the band all together playing in the same room.
We definitely prefer to record to tape. It seems to create that depth, warmth and authenticity in a record that digital recordings just can’t seem to replicate”.
The debut album’s title, DEA, comes from the initials of the album track Dead Ends & Avenues, a track which the band all felt the track perfectly summed-up their sound. The song itself is about triumph in the face of adversity, making your own luck and succeeding despite life’s hurdles.
The chorus’s lyric, “And to all that I gave, without hope” speaks a universal truth dear to the band; striving for acknowledgement and then flipping a rebellious two finger salute like all the greatest rock’n’roll records.
The decision to do that pretty much made itself. One is the kick down the doors blast that you want to open an album, whilst the other is the comforting arm you put around a loved one whilst saying ‘I think you need a lie-down now after all that excitement’.”
There was a moment during recording that Nick (our producer) revealed that he owned Noel Gallagher‘s old acoustic guitar that was used on the album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? The actual guitar that was played on Wonderwall! As soon as we heard that story, we ordered him to go fetch it so we could use it on Little Bit Of Soul. It just had to be done.”
Maker have already built up a reputation for electrifying live performances – acclaimed guitarist, Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes/Magpie Salute), as well as Simone Marie (Primal Scream) and Tom Meighan (Kasabian), have been added to their list of fans.
Tickets are available here.
For more details makerofficial.com.