Paul Davies, Q, Feb 1990. From the book "Encyclopedia of Albums". Liverpudlian Ian Broudie had been at the centre of Merseyside music for a decade, firstly as guitarist and songwriter with Big In Japan and later of Echo and the Bunneymen before this, his first "solo" album albeit under a group name. It emerged on... Continue Reading →
Interview with Ian Broudie from Mojo, 1996. How much is prepared before you go in the studio? All I have us "La la la de lah" and some chord changes. That's it. I deliberately blur the writing process into the recording process because I work best when I'm responding instinctively to the situation. You seem... Continue Reading →
The third instalment of Ian Broudie's five-year plan to reshape pop music is every bit as strong as both predecessors Cloudcuckooland and Sense. His softly spoken pop vignettes have stealthily lockpicked the oak-panelled doors of mainstream acceptance and it can only be a matter of time before Broudie is swapping dressing rooms with Marti Pellow.... Continue Reading →
Pure Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie is proof positive that if you've got it, and you keep using it, eventually you'll get somewhere. Paying dues in Big In Japan and Care, he found acclaim as a producer (The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen etc), formed the Lightning Seeds as a one-man-in-a-studio project in 1989, and set... Continue Reading →
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