Johnny Marr has been explaining how he revisited his early Manchester influences when writing the debut solo album ‘The Messenger‘.
The record is due for release early next year and, according to Marr during an interview with BBC 6Music, will comprise Manchester-inspired tracks that are ready made for a live setting.
“When somebody has a solo record when they’ve made records for a long time, there’s a kind of insinuation that it affords you the freedom to be moody or experimental and go off the beaten track, but it appears I’ve done the opposite, in that its all pretty uptempo and 12 tracks that sound good live,” he commented.
“I’ve gone back to the sort of energy, trying to capture the energy I had from my influences that I had growing up in Manchester.”
And on the album’s title track and lead single, Marr continued: “It’s one of those songs that kind of came out very easily, and all songwriters will tell you they either turn out to be really good, or just not. In the case of the Messenger, I was really pleased wit hit, it kind of just happened.”