Squeeze Boys Stay Grounded

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are the latest to see their plans left up the junction thanks to the volcanic ash cloud that has closed British airspace and stranded thousands over the last few days.

While Chris Difford’s new album is currently in the final mixing and mastering stages, he had flown to Florence with 22 other songwriters for a special week-long version of his regular songwriting workshops. Due to return last weekend, he tweeted, with trademark humour still intact: “Italy, stuck up a mountain, no flights, no hire cars, plenty of pasta, lots of love and harmony, may start an order of a new world(sic)”.

Meanwhile Glenn Tilbrook has been on holiday in Marrakech with his family. With his tour bus being driven to Madrid to fetch him, Glenn will be on his way back to the UK as soon as he get the short flight into Spain. There is talk of Chris getting a ferry or boat over to join Glenn on his drive back for a bit of writing time together, as the pair have been spending their spare time writing new Squeeze material together before the band’s first extensive UK and US tours for over 10 years later on this year.

‘Cashmere If You Can’ is Chris Difford’s third solo album, and the first to be released through the innovative new online label ‘Saturday Morning Music Club’. For 10 weeks, and for one price, a new song from the album will be made available to download each Saturday, with its own unique b-sides, artwork, lyrics and notes. The release will be preceded by the single ‘1975’, due out soon – subject to Icelandic involvement!

Squeeze are on tour in November and December, starting in Bournemouth on the 14th Novemeber and culminating with 4 nights in London, ending with a pair of dates at Shepherd’s Bush O2 Empire on the 11th and 12th December. 

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