"It's another track from the vaults that has, until now, existed in a very demo-y form. I wrote this track in early 2013, right in the middle of the 'Regret Less' tour. I was approached by a music supervisor for a film called 'Rudderless' that was being
directed by awesomely-faced American actor William H Macy and asked if I would be interested in submitting 5 songs. The film, if you haven't seen it, is all about
music - it's out there now, so I won't ruin the story for you, but basically I was invited to write songs to be performed in the film.
I was given 5 very broad themes and titles - 'Breakup Song', 'Hot Girl Song' etc - and spent 2 days writing and demoing ideas. I got some hilarious messages directly from the Macy and general nods of approval from the music supervisor
and producer, but in the end they took the music away from a singer/songwriter vibe and went somewhere a bit more Americana.
For me it came at exactly the right point - I'd been struggling to get anything new written during tour trips, and was just in need of a project and some direction...in
fact 'The Letter' from my last solo EP 'Two Birds' was another song that started life as a 'Rudderless' demo. So, thank you William H Macy.
Production wise, we've kept this one small and simple. Again, due to schedules clashing, Aidan and I have been in different places a lot this month, so we've totally Postal Serviced this one - thank you email!"
-Richard Walters
"It's another track from the vaults that has, until now, existed in a very demo-y form. I wrote this track in early 2013, right in the middle of the 'Regret Less' tour. I was approached by a music supervisor for a film called 'Rudderless' that was being directed by awesomely-faced American actor William H Macy and asked if I would be interested in submitting 5 songs. The film, if you haven't seen it, is all about music - it's out there now, so I won't ruin the story for you, but basically I was invited to write songs to be performed in the film.
I was given 5 very broad themes and titles - 'Breakup Song', 'Hot Girl Song' etc - and spent 2 days writing and demoing ideas. I got some hilarious messages directly from the Macy and general nods of approval from the music supervisor and producer, but in the end they took the music away from a singer/songwriter vibe and went somewhere a bit more Americana.
For me it came at exactly the right point - I'd been struggling to get anything new written during tour trips, and was just in need of a project and some direction...in fact 'The Letter' from my last solo EP 'Two Birds' was another song that started life as a 'Rudderless' demo. So, thank you William H Macy.
Production wise, we've kept this one small and simple. Again, due to schedules clashing, Aidan and I have been in different places a lot this month, so we've totally Postal Serviced this one - thank you email!" -Richard Walters