As it’s 20 years since we released our debut album as the Earlies my eyes keep wandering over the calendar and I think of what we were doing that year. I know there’s nothing inherently special about 20 years but we’re an animal with 10 fingers and every time a number with a zero at the end pops up we’re happy and amused. Some people do celebration tours or re-releases for every zero year that comes around, I know I’m doing at least one tour this year based around such nostalgia and I’ve bought plenty of repackaged albums in this spirit. The recent Beatles re-releases were actually some of the best nostalgia money I’ve ever spent, I don’t think I’ll go back to the old mixes of Revolver. I’m not sure if Earlies nostalgia will stretch to a Giles Martin box set with outtakes or an arena tour but we’ll take a few moments across the year, probably only here on Substack, to remember what those young mavericks were up to back in 2004.
Madden in the Lone Star State
Madden in the Lone Star State
Madden in the Lone Star State
As it’s 20 years since we released our debut album as the Earlies my eyes keep wandering over the calendar and I think of what we were doing that year. I know there’s nothing inherently special about 20 years but we’re an animal with 10 fingers and every time a number with a zero at the end pops up we’re happy and amused. Some people do celebration tours or re-releases for every zero year that comes around, I know I’m doing at least one tour this year based around such nostalgia and I’ve bought plenty of repackaged albums in this spirit. The recent Beatles re-releases were actually some of the best nostalgia money I’ve ever spent, I don’t think I’ll go back to the old mixes of Revolver. I’m not sure if Earlies nostalgia will stretch to a Giles Martin box set with outtakes or an arena tour but we’ll take a few moments across the year, probably only here on Substack, to remember what those young mavericks were up to back in 2004.