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did all start titling together with the travel and adventure themes and it did inform the packaging.’
lle‘s thinking of ‘Return to Patagonia‘. a rattling locomotive of a track. and ‘Ramblin' Man‘ with its list of peculiar destinations — Tibet. Sydney. Rangoon. Brixton. Kentish Town. Malawi -— in tribute to (‘larke (iable. of all people. They reflect an age of travel long gone. An age l)eakin is happily to dream of. ‘There must have been an age of travel in the 20s or 30s when there were a very small group of gentlemen travellers. a very different thing from the kind of supermarket travel we do today.’ he says. ‘I think that is what [or] Horizons is hankering for: those days of adventure. heading off tip a mountain. have a glass of port with your chums up top and then back down again. It tnust have been a wonderful time to discover the world when it really was exotic.~
In terms of recognisability. you might not be able to pick lired l)eakin out of a line-up of barristers. baboons and bartenders. but he has always given Lemon Jelly a distinctive visual twist. All images of the duo have been given his unique 'l‘echnicolor treatment. He went so far as to form a design agency. Airside. which not only executes the visuals for the band. but also carries ottt commissions for a whole raft of clients from MTV to the makers ofJapanese art llick Burr/v Rom/e. for whom they made some splendidly splattery souvenir T-shiits. ‘Until we started working together the only canvas I had for my ideas were club llyers.' he says. 'That was
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my medium. So to be able to go into a wider arena from a design point of view was fantastic. And now the video for our single ‘Nice Weather for Ducks' was our lirst venture into videomaking.’
But for now. Airside and l)Jing are taking a back seat while l)eakin and l‘ranglen climb into the front and steer the road-bound l.emon Jelly around the country. It's a new experience for them. Most of their previous live appearances have been in clubs and festivals. Their challenge now is to lind a theatrical focus for their instrumental grooves. It should be a doddle. Their celebratory musical sounds are made for the dancelloor and. given that l)eakin‘s club nights have always been smarter than the average bear. chances are the live shows will be corkers.
So what can we expect'.’ The unexpected. of course - an audio-visual treat. ‘We shall have knobs and we shall have instrumentsl' says l)eakin with glee. ‘We've gone halfway between the ftill band route and the knob-twiddling route. Neither is completely appropriate for what we do. so we‘re going straight down the middle. And with loads of visual bits and bobs to boot.‘
So that’s quality. quirky pop music with knobs on. then.
Lemon Jelly play Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Saturday 1 March; QMU, Glasgow, Sunday 2 March. The single ‘Nice Weather for Ducks’ is out now on XL.
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