That was the hard question Rick and John Brewster of The Angels had been chewing over in early 2011. Their singer Doc Neeson had set off to pursue a solo career a few months earlier. Along with bassist Chris Bailey, Rick and John Brewster decided they had to find a new singer. They’d been itching to record a new The Angels album for years, they had songs and they had the hunger, and in April 2011 they found their new singer.
Dave Gleeson, who had spent two decades fronting The Screaming Jets, made a last minute decision to go and catch a show by Rick and John Brewster at a pub in Adelaide. The Screaming Jets had opened for The Angels on a national tour back in 1991, but it’d been years since they’d crossed paths. At the pub, Dave Gleeson had edged his way to the stage until John Brewster spotted him and invited him to jump up and sing a few Angels classics. He didn’t need to be asked twice.
“John and I looked at each other,” says Rick Brewster, “and we knew when we heard Dave’s voice on Marseilles and I Ain’t The One….We just knew right there, that night, it could work.”
A few weeks later, Dave Gleeson found himself walking into Sydney’s legendary Alberts Studios at noon to record new songs with The Angels, the band that had soundtracked his teenage years and inspired him to take up rock n roll as a career.
Less than half an hour later, Rick, John, Chris Bailey, Dave Gleeson and recently recruited drummer Nick Norton, were listening back to the first new song from The Angels in more than a decade. A cheer went up in the studio, smiles all round. It worked.
“We knew right then, we had a band,” says John Brewster, who founded The Angels with Rick and Doc in 1974, and produced the new album with Rick. “We knew it could work onstage with Dave, but it had to work in the studio. Dave sang this new song (Waiting For The Sun) three times, bam, bam, bam, we used the second take.”
By the end of the day, they’d finished another song. The next day, The Angels recorded two more. By the third day, they had a new EP and two shows were booked to debut this new lineup of The Angels. Would people come? They got their answer when they walked onstage at Sydney’s Annandale Hotel to find the infamous rock room crammed solid, from the front row to the back wall. There were no intros. They stormed into the first song and didn’t pull back for two hours.
From August through to December, 2011, while taking the Waiting For The Sun tour around Australia, The Angels returned to Alberts Studios 3 times and, over 9 days in total, recorded 14 songs. There was no record deal in place, they were starting again, grabbing studio time when it was available, or when they could afford it, and not wasting a moment when they were there.
“We felt like we had a real opportunity to show what we could do,” says Chris Bailey. “It was an open canvas. There were no expectations. We didn’t have to deliver for anybody but ourselves. We all wanted to be there, we all wanted to play, we all wanted to make a new Angels album. A great album. And that’s what we did.”
The new album kicks off with To The Streets, a jangling, bracing burst of acoustic and electric guitars, a splash of tambourine and soaring, melodic organ.
01. To The Streets (4:26)
02. There Comes A Time (3:00)
03. Small Price (4:02)
04. Free (2:46)
05. Some Kinda Hell In Here (4:55)
06. Free Bird (3:36)
07. Wounded Healer (3:53)
08. Waiting For The Sun (4:46)
09. Life Gets Better (4:11)
10. Telephone (6:27)
11. No Sleep In Hell (4:43)
12. The More You Give (3:45)
13. When The Time Comes (3:02)
14. Pump It Up (3:20)
CD2:
01. Ivory Stairs (Live)
02. After The Rain (Live)
03. Wounded Healer (Live)
04. No Secrets (Live)
05. Marseilles (Live)
06. Outcast (Live)
07. I Ain’t The One (Live)
08. Mr. Damage (Live)
09. Face The Day (Live)
10. Take A Long Line (Live)
11. When The Time Comes (Live)
12. Shadow Boxer (Live)
13. Am I Ever Gonna See Your
14. Waiting For The Sun (Live)
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