Late For Breakfast

Late For Breakfast

It took us 4 years to write and complete the recording of our first album 'The Art Of Falling' - now to be released in January 2010. Why such a long gestation period? Well, it all started out so innocently, just a regular writing session two days a week with Greg Clarkson. We had this idea about doing a CD.....

Somewhere along the way we discovered this sound. Maybe it's because we decided not to use guitar or perhaps because we thought it might be interesting to have the saxophone share some of the limelight with the vocal.

It's definitely a different sounding band - no doubt about it. When we finished the album and started to finalise plans for the next stage we also discovered it was rather difficult to label the band and it's sound. It was as if we needed some overlap in the typical categories.

Here's what we have come up with so far;

1. It's a pop band. - maybe in the sense that what we are working with are essentially pop songs...
2. We are a rock band. - yeah maybe in the sense that some of the LateForBreakfast tracks definitely have major attitude with a kind of rock bravado that you tend to associate with guitar music
3. We are a jazz band. - Perhaps, but that's kinda hard to swallow. I mean, we do have quite a lot of improvisation in our music but it's all kinda hard core, highly structured but a little unclean and unshaven if you know what I mean....real jazz is often SO aware of itself, so self important, desperate to make a statement of serious intent....
4. We are a country band. - NOT

Ok, so what do LATEFORBREAKFAST really sound like?

Tight, funky, pop oriented, jazz flavoured rock with savvy, hooky tunes driving everything.
Think Steely Dan with some Supertramp and ELO, some Little Feat with Chicago, a touch of Michael Franks mixed with Oasis, a sniff of Bela Fleck with a touch of Jamiroquai and Bruce Hornsby - all wrapped up in an inexplicable fascination with hip hop shuffles....