CALLING all fans of Cork group the Frank and Walters -the group will be releasing a new album before the month is out.
A Renewed Interest in Happiness will hit the shops on October 27 and should prove popular among their existing fanbase as well as win them many new listeners.
Its central message, as its title suggest, is "you deserve to be happy" and the band’s existing following together with new fans can expect to feel uplifted from the first time you listen to it.
In fact, the group - Ashley Keating, drummer, Kevin Pedreschi, lead guitarist, and Paul Linehan, lead singer and bassist - designed it to be a real antidote to the trials and tribulations we all face in a world that constantly tells us we don’t have what we need and we are not who we should be.
During spring of this year, a little town called Ballyvinny entered the indie-pop history books as it was there that the Cork band kicked off the gigs that would eventually shape themselves into their fifth studio album.
The group prided themselves on the fact that the first ears to hear the record were those on the cows that paraded up and down outside the window of the practice room.
David Couse came on board as producers, having previously worked on the Grand Parade recording and EP1 back in 1991.
Richard Rainey signed up to mix some tracks and sound engineer Kieran Lynch completed the team.
When they needed a place to record, a friend’s father suggested a holiday home in Inchydoney, Co Cork, which proved an inspiring location.
But when they needed to up the grit factor to match the mood of songs such as Fight and Country Boy, they turned top Wheatfield Prison, with Paul doing the vocal takes there.
Keep the Faith and Hold On meanwhile were cut in an old Church of Ireland building in Carrig Na Bhearr, Cork.
Johnny Cash’s rural setting was Coolinarn, deep in the Cork/Kerry mountains.
This isolated farmhouse was perfect for the recording which was done late at night.
A Renewed Interest In Happiness is the Frank and Walters’ fifth studio album.
It has been released on the anniversary of their 15th year in music and has been hailed by some critics as their finest work.
