Johnny Marr at the Manchester Apollo, 18/11/18 (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
The Johnny Marr collection will contain the brand new songs ‘Somewhere’ and ‘The Answer’.
Johnny Marr will look back on the first ten years of his solo career with a compilation entitled Spirit Power which has been set for release on November 3rd.
Both Somewhere and The Answer were recorded by The Smiths guitarist with co-producer James Doviak, the former written whilst on tour last year with The Killers and Blondie.
“I’ve played a lot of arenas over the years, and in terms of songwriting there’s nowhere to hide,” he’s said of it.
For a song to work, it has to be a banger. I know it’s almost uncool to think in those terms, but I grew up in a house where my parents listened to Motown, where you couldn’t get a song released if it wasn’t full of hooks.
The release is to be marked with two orchestral gigs at Manchester’s Factory International on December 7th and 8th.
Spirit Power tracklist:
Armatopia
New Town Velocity
Easy Money
Spirit Power & Soul
Hi Hello
Somewhere
The Messenger
I Feel You
The Answer
Dynamo
Spiral Cities
Night and Day
Sensory Street
Walk Into The Sea
Candidate
Tenement Time
Hi Hello (Demo)
Somewhere (Demo)
The Answer (Crazy F Version)
The Messenger (Demo)
Speak out Reach Out (Crazy F Version)
