My New Band Believe

My New Band Believe release their first song, “Lecture 25” w/ accompanying video by Jack Shep.

It was written quickly, with the initial intention to release the demo as is. However, at the last minute, a band was conceived, the song arranged, then recorded, mixed, mastered and a video made, all within an 8 day period.

Written by Cameron Picton (ex-black midi), produced and mixed by Seth Evans (also ex-black midi) and Margo Broom, engineered by Adele Phillips at RAK. Margo Broom contributed additional percussion.

My New Band Believe, on this recording, are Cameron Picton (Guitar, Vocals), Josh Finerty (Bass Guitar), King David Ike-Elechi (Drums), Seth Evans (Piano).

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Cameron Picton:

“Recently, I had a couple days off from the main thing I’ve been working on and spent them doing various writing exercises. I hadn’t written a proper song since before Christmas so thought it’d be a good way to get the ball rolling again. Of quite a large batch I ended up with three songs that had something about them. At first I thought about putting them out as is, recorded with my laptop mic and Zoom H6, unmixed, unmastered – exactly as bounced on when I first finished them, flaws and all. I later sent them to Seth and when he offered to mix, I thought: why not just record one properly?

We tracked it at RAK on the 11th of Feb with mixing taking place the next day. I also asked Jack (Shep) to

make a video for it, which he then filmed concurrently, in time for a Valentine’s Day release. The idea for “Lecture 25” was to set someone else’s words to my own music, I used Dennis Cooper’s “Lecture 1970”, which I adapted into about half the song’s lyrics.”