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Thomas and Alex White

Electric Soft Parade interview

Tim Bearder speaks to Alex White > Audio and Video links on this page require Realplayer

Alex White is a bit of a dude.  When I first saw him and his brother Thomas at the Zodiac I was wowed by the way they perpetually changed instruments and seemed to be a master of each. Talent like that can’t be kept down and with the support of Oxfordshire’s Truck Records Electric Soft Parade are making something of a return to their Mercury Nominated form with a new album called No Need To Be Downhearted.

Released this week (23rd April 2007) the album was recorded and produced in Steventon at Truck studios with the help of the Goldrush boys Robin and Garo.

It’s not done with a vast sum of cash, in fact the band had to sleep in the barn on the farm where the studio is based during the recording. But it is done with the skill and panache of people who really care about the music they are making.

You can listen to me speaking to Alex in the van on the way to Stoke, the first date of their national tour to promote the album.