Studio album by The Alan Parsons Project.
“I went straight from high school into joining an underground rock band, Toxic Garden Gnomes. This was my context, where, at that time, 1983, I’d gone to Screaming Tribesmen gigs and Grooveyard gigs in the city, gigs which informed my awareness that I was part of the underground culture at seventeen years of age”.
Johnny’s early inculcation into the underground scene spread way beyond simply music and fashion. The underground scene in Brisbane at the time was informing all different walks of life, writing, painting and film-making – very radical, yet leading Johnny, late in the years of the 80’s, to writing a few absolutely outstanding tracks – Wilderness, Citadel, and Midnight.”
“The sound of Midnight is just great. It has a really mysterious feel to it. Compared to a late period song, Smashed, by comparison; Smashed actually sounds quite heavy in the version found on Weather Being. It was interesting when I mixed Weather Being, I took a load of risky mixes to get the whole album sounding cohesive and bold. I wanted to put out something that was a bit more innovative, big and ominous, heavy vibrancy, some slower tracks and then some bright, cascading-sound loud ones”.
“I feel I reached a level I was after. The mixing is perfect. There’s a whole tone to the album, and in the placing of the tracks. There are quite a few references within ‘Midnight’, to the works of Edgar Allan Poe – ‘To One in Paradise’, and, above all, ‘A Dream Within a Dream’, both of which feature on The Alan Parsons Project, to where I even add a Sgt. Pepper’s trope, from ‘A Day in the Life’, featured in Paul’s middle-eight, the final line of the middle eight (“I went into a dream”). This was all to do with my obsession with The Blue Album as a kid.”
Studio album by The Alan Parsons Project.
“I went straight from high school into joining an underground rock band, Toxic Garden Gnomes. This was my context, where, at that time, 1983, I’d gone to Screaming Tribesmen gigs and Grooveyard gigs in the city, gigs which informed my awareness that I was part of the underground culture at seventeen years of age”.
Johnny’s early inculcation into the underground scene spread way beyond simply music and fashion. The underground scene in Brisbane at the time was informing all different walks of life, writing, painting and film-making – very radical, yet leading Johnny, late in the years of the 80’s, to writing a few absolutely outstanding tracks – Wilderness, Citadel, and Midnight.”
“The sound of Midnight is just great. It has a really mysterious feel to it. Compared to a late period song, Smashed, by comparison; Smashed actually sounds quite heavy in the version found on Weather Being. It was interesting when I mixed Weather Being, I took a load of risky mixes to get the whole album sounding cohesive and bold. I wanted to put out something that was a bit more innovative, big and ominous, heavy vibrancy, some slower tracks and then some bright, cascading-sound loud ones”.
“I feel I reached a level I was after. The mixing is perfect. There’s a whole tone to the album, and in the placing of the tracks. There are quite a few references within ‘Midnight’, to the works of Edgar Allan Poe – ‘To One in Paradise’, and, above all, ‘A Dream Within a Dream’, both of which feature on The Alan Parsons Project, to where I even add a Sgt. Pepper’s trope, from ‘A Day in the Life’, featured in Paul’s middle-eight, the final line of the middle eight (“I went into a dream”). This was all to do with my obsession with The Blue Album as a kid.”