The Coral by Kevin Power
The Coral are celebrating 20 years of their self-titled debut album.
The Coral have released an audio and visually remastered version of their Dreaming Of You single.
Despite becoming an ubiquitous indie staple almost overnight, and remaining to this day one of that era’s most recognisable tunes, songwriter James Skelly recalls that it was only after a meeting with Shack founders Mick and John Head that the single found its way on to the album at the final hour.
“It nearly didn’t make the album,” he says.. “It was a song we hadn’t yet recorded during the main studio sessions, but when Broudie heard it he said it had to be on there and we went back into the studio to get down this angular version that fitted the rest of the album.”
“I’d had the song since meeting Mick and John for the first time and they said they really liked our stuff. We sat and spoke about Love, who we are massively influenced by, as he actually knew Arthur Lee a bit. I just went home from their praccy room, picked up my guitar and Dreaming Of You came out of nowhere.”
It comes with the anniversary reissue of the LP due on March 4th.
