TONY MARTIN BAND Bassist Jamie Mallender Releases Solo Album
November 12, 2009, 15 years ago
Bassist Jamie Mallender was last heard as part of the new band called HEADLESS CROSS - a tribute of sorts to the BLACK SABBATH album of the same name and featuring former Sabbath singer TONY MARTIN and longtime keyboardist Geoff Nichols. Earlier this summer it was reported that the band had set up a US tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Headless Cross album. Although it was cancelled, the band recently performed dates in Brazil in September, Mallender was left out of the tour and decided to put his writing cap on. He has sent the following update to Black-sabbath.com:
"As many of you Sabbath fans will already know, I should have been doing three months of touring the USA, Canada and Brazil with Tony Martin this summer. But for reasons I can't discuss, it didn't happen. The last night we had in the UK before embarking upon our tour, all but the Brazil section was cancelled. It worked out that they couldn't take me to Brazil either - just to make matters worse. When I got home I was very down, and I didn't know what else to do, so I just got out my bass and started playing. Very quickly I wrote and recorded 'The Bass Player Answers Back', channeling all my anger and disappointment into it. That meant I needed just one more track to complete my album - Return To Bass. Last week I recorded 'Theme From Nowhere', and then mixed the finished album. The tracklisting is:'Layla's Funk'
'The Bass Player Answers Back'
'Theme From Nowhere'
'The Amazing Adventures Of An Interstellar Glam Hippy'
'Planet Happiness (A Tribute To The Cardigan)'
'The Guilt'
'Return To Bass'
'Kidney Bean'
'Captain Blake vs The Lion'
All tracks were written and recorded by me and I played all the instruments too. I appreciate that a bass oriented solo instrumental album won't be to everyone's taste, and I have no idea if it will ever be properly released - though I do intend to work on that. But if anyone is interested and would like to hear tracks from the album, please check out www.jamiemallender.co.uk."
