“JOKERMAN” - THE MISSION’s New Album
We are very pleased and excited to be able to tell you that Wayne Hussey, Craig Adams, & Simon Hinkler are currently in the studio deep in the heart of Sussex at the moment with drummer Budgie (formerly of Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Creatures, and The Slits) recording an album of new songs to be released in time for The Mission’s 25th anniversary shows in October. We know this is news to most of you but we have been trying very hard to keep it under wraps until everything was ready but it seems that the news has been leaked so we thought we would let you know before you heard it elsewhere.
The last Mission album that Craig was involved in was ‘Aura’ ten years ago whilst Simon’s last involvement with the band was his guest appearances at the Shepherds Bush shows just three years ago although the last album Simon actually played on was ‘Carved In Sand’, not withstanding his mighty fine guitar solo on ‘Grotesque’ from the band’s last album ‘God Is A Bullet’.
Wayne has actually been in a band with Budgie before, albeit for just two days along with Ian Broudie from The Lightning Seeds, many years ago when they both lived in Liverpool in the late 70's and before they both went on to achieve a degree of success with other bands and, in Wayne’s case, notoriety.
The album will be released by the band’s old label, Universal, and is being produced by Tim Palmer who previously produced ‘God’s Own Medicine’ and the aforementioned ‘Carved In Sand’. In the interim Tim has worked with bands as diverse as U2, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, and HIM amongst many many others. All the new songs were written jointly by the band with Wayne providing the lyrics as usual.
The album is entitled "Jokerman" and the provisional track listing is as follows:
1. You’re Just Another Pawn In My Game
2. Don’t Be Fooled Yet Again
3. Laugh Until I Cry
4. Idiot Savant
5. Cross My Palm With Silver
6. April Rain
7. Have You Got It yet?
8. Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes
9. Retirement Fund
10. The Joke’s On You
11. Man Of Few Words
12. (If You Understand) Keep It To Yourself
“We hope to have some audio samples for you to hear very shortly”, declares the band.
The Mission will celebrate their 25th Year Anniversary by playing at the London Brixton O2 Academy on Saturday 22nd October 2011.
Source: www.themissionuk.com