About this episode

The episode discusses the troubled fifth album by Echo & The Bunnymen, featuring insider information from Tony Fletcher.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit tonyfletcher.substack.com Welcome back to the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast — the podcast in which music journalists/obsessives Dan Epstein (the Yank) and Tony Fletcher (the Limey) clash and connect over music from either side of the pond. In this 29th episode we discuss not one of the first four classic albums by Liverpool legends Echo & The Bunnymen, but the troubled, eponymous fifth album. Tony actually witnessed the record’s long gestation in person while writing the band’s authorized 1987 biography Never Stop: The Echo & The Bunnymen Story , which makes Echo & The Bunnymen the first album to be featured on CROSSED CHANNELS that one of us was in the studio for. It is also perfect subject matter for Crossed Channels as it’s an album made by a British band in a British studio but with an American audience very much in mind. Since he was present for its recording — both in subsequently-abandoned form in Liverpool with producer Gil Norton, as well as in London with eventual producer Laurie Latham - and given that he traveled with the band on their subsequent 1988 US tour for SPIN magazine, Tony has quite a bit of insider…

People in this episode

Hosts: Tony Fletcher, Dan Epstein

Topics covered

• Echo & The Bunnymen
• music history
• album analysis
• British music
• American audience

Keywords

• Echo & The Bunnymen
• album analysis
• music journalism
• Tony Fletcher
• Dan Epstein

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Echo & The Bunnymen

Books & works: Never Stop: The Echo & The Bunnymen Story

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