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Formed in 2006, The Fred Dibnah Trio is have been working on an album of New Romantic masterpieces reworked using traditional English folk instruments entitled "Are Friends Acoustic?". Provisional track listing includes Visage "Fade To Grey", Classix Nouveau "Is it A Dream", Ultravox "Sleepwalk", Depeche Mode "Just Can't get Enough" and the title track "Are Friends Acoustic". There will also be a few original numbers like the haunting ballad: "Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire". We bring things bang up to date with a bluegrass version of the Tamperer feat. Maya hit: "Can you feel it?" As you will have probably gathered, the music is based on underlying themes of duality and resurrection. The Trio perform a version of "Blacked up", not in the style of Steve Strange's current Papa Lazarou get up but embracing the feel of the traditional English Mummers. Nuff Said. Maintaining the Mummers tip for a misunderstood, dulcimer-heavy reworking of Soft Cell’s 12†corker ‘Memorabilia,’ at one stage had looked to be a tune too far, leading to a short hiatus as The Trio were forced into their current studio/safehouse in the West Midlands. The hip-hop stylings on top of the Mummers garb proved ill-advised and the ‘cultural jaffas’ of the music press pounced, mistaking a touching and very English tribute to Ball and Almond for a bit of tat thrown together as an excuse to fuck about with bootpolish and laugh at spunk gags. Changing the title to “Mummer Rap Be All Ower (Realise)†did nothing to help their cause.With all that now firmly behind them, at long last The Trio have emerged from their hideaway in the cellar of Tipton Liptons’ and ripped to the tits on packet tea and stale cakes, are re-energised and ready to folk you up. STOP PRESS: The boys were recently joined by guest vocalist Gary "Bivvied Up" Numan on the Trio's latest outing "Tight Lines/Shite Lines" Checkiddout.
