Brian Higgins and Xenomania in The Sunday Times

[Steveweiser]

There's a two page article about Brian Higgins and Xenomania in today's Sunday Times Style section, mostly talking about the studio in their house in Kent. A certain Mr Peter Robinson provided a quote or two for the piece, and Brian calls Nadine GA "one of the finest singers this country has produced".

He also looks completely different to how I imagined him. But this link doesn't include his pic...

www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,14109-1165786,00.html

[Poptastic!]

That article was really interesting. It sounds like lots of fun at the Xenomania cottage! What does Brian look like? I haven't seen the paper.

Jessica

[Steveweiser]

Long-ish hair, and loads of stubble. I might scan the pic tomorrow.

[Storm]

I wanna go to the Xenomania cottage!!

[Poptastic!]

If you get invited to record there, you're taking me with you! I want to have breakfast with Girls Aloud. Perhaps not soup though, especially if Nicola is making it.

Jessica

[Steveweiser]

And here's the pic...

[Poptastic!]

He is not bad looking actually! I was expecting someone older, sort of businessman-like. I don't know why, songwriters don't have to wear suits or anything. I think it's the name Brian Higgins conjures up that image. It's a very 40-something in a suit sort of name.

Jessica

[Smudge]

Poptastic! said:

I was expecting someone older, sort of businessman-like. I think it's the name Brian Higgins conjures up that image. It's a very 40-something in a suit sort of name.

Jessica

Exactly! I certainly didn't expect him to look like Jesus. Oh well, life is full, full of surprises.

[MoondialSlater]

Higgins slipped into a studio behind the kitchen to play a new song called The Show. Girls Aloud’s future No 1 belted out enthusiastically around the room.

Article written before the song was acually released then?

[Jen]

Moondial said:

Article written before the song was acually released then?

It says just before that it was written in May.

[Steveweiser]

Smudge said:

Exactly! I certainly didn't expect him to look like Jesus. Oh well, life is full, full of surprises.

How else would you explain that, with the exception of Abs and V, everything he's touched has turned to gold?

[flufff]

That is a very good point. Shall we get him to do the old water/wine test?

[Deleted]

flufff said:

That is a very good point. Shall we get him to do the old water/wine test?

Give him the remains of Phixx and make them walk again.

[flopped]

Smudge said:

Exactly! I certainly didn't expect him to look like Jesus. Oh well, life is full, full of surprises.

Jesus Smokes Silk Cut!

[scandipop]

I want to know who the various girls walking around in high heels described as future popstars were.

[Dennis]

No excitement whatsoever about Saint Etienne visiting the house this summer then? Hmph!

[Hundredweight]

Ain't said:

No excitement whatsoever about Saint Etienne visiting the house this summer then? Hmph!

The news resulted in my biggest Xenomania related squee since I found a compilation featuring Xenomania's remix of Stay in the Sun by Kenickie (perhaps the closest we'll get to the 'Nick reforming to cover No Good Advice) for £3 in Nottingham the other week. Mmm, Sarah Cracknell. Mmm.

[AcerBen]

I didn't know Nadine came from this country.

[Lovebomb]

Ain't said:

No excitement whatsoever about Saint Etienne visiting the house this summer then? Hmph!

Well I am but it's just like Girls Aloud and Sugababes, they're Xenomania veterans.

Very, very excited about New Order though.

[Dennis]

Lovebomb said:

Well I am but it's just like Girls Aloud and Sugababes, they're Xenomania veterans.

True, but this is the first bit of information of Saint Etienne's new record. You never know which direction they're going to go in with a new record, they might be off to Berlin to work with some avantgarde plinkplonkers again. I prefer them pop, so this is most excellent news.

[Lovebomb]

Ain't said:

True, but this is the first bit of information of Saint Etienne's new record. You never know which direction they're going to go in with a new record, they might be off to Berlin to work with some avantgarde plinkplonkers again. I prefer them pop, so this is most excellent news.

Wasn't the news posted here some months back about Xenomania working on the new album?

Maybe it was somewhere else?

Well it was definately somewhere because that was the discussion that finally persuaded to buy
Finisterre.

[MoondialSlater]

"If Keisha from Sugababes didn’t do music, I don’t know what Keisha would do,"

That's not very nice.

I'm sure there's many things she's good at.

[Poptastic!]

I wonder if the Eve mentioned is the one who sang on Abs' single? I think it had 7 in the title, it was quite good for him. Maybe Xenomania did it?

Jessica

[Jen]

Poptastic! said:

I wonder if the Eve mentioned is the one who sang on Abs' single? I think it had 7 in the title, it was quite good for him. Maybe Xenomania did it?
Jessica

Checking my cd, It was "7 ways", yes it was Xenomania, and its was a damm good song.

[PoshGurung]

Here's Xenomania's full discography:

www.geocities.com/xenomaniasite/

I can't believe Brian has worked with Natacha Atlas. How obscure.

EDIT: Apparently Niara Mania co-wrote 'Do me Wrong' by Melanie Blatt. Who would've thought?

[flufff]

They worked with Vanilla?

[Blackhole]

flufff said:

They worked with Vanilla?

Only a remix -not writing or production.

[scandipop]

Yes a few of their remixes appeared on Vannila's True To Us single.

[Scruffy]

I wish he posted here.
"Yeah I did work with Britney... but I kicked her out!"

[flufff]

Blackhole said:

Only a remix -not writing or production.

Thanks, I didn't see how that fitted in with the philosophy of only working with people who can contribute and live and breathe their music.