Pop

When we decided to record a second album we set out two conditions.

1. We were making for an audience and not just for us as a vanity project

2. It had to have a story and a point and not just a pile of meaningless songs.

Three years ago a close friend of the band, who was 18 at the time, came out as gay to his mum and dad with the latter being unable to accept his son's choice. As a consequence the son attempted suicide several times before eventually being sectioned. It struck a chord with The Screens that family could be divided by a choice one member had no control over and the other suddenly felt a compulsion to put their opinions of sexuality ahead of their bond to their own flesh and blood. It became the beginning of a story that The Screens developed and which they also turned in a short novel called The Boy Who Waved At Trains.

The album of songs is a journey of a boy born in post war London who, as a teenager, discovers he is gay and is thrown out by his alcoholic dad. The boys is forced into a life of male prostitution, drugs, seedy sex parties, brutality......Its not a pleasant story but it highlights what life as a gay man during the sixties would have been.

As big fans of Quadrophenia, and Tommy we wanted to write the album so each song, in chronological order, tells a specific stage of the boys life and that might one day be the basis of an interesting film.

The first condition for making the album was that an audience wanted it and it wouldn't be a vanity project for us so we ran a Kickstarter campaign and invite people to pre order the album on vinyl and CD before we made it. We were relieved enough people stumped up the cash and it meant we could make it.

We plan to delay the album being put on Spotify because The Screens think it detracts from sales as well as radio. The Screens will eventually put the entire album on there but after radio stations have the option to play it.

So that's it. The album is out on 31^stMarch 2020. We will service radio stations with a WAV or MP3 of The Boy Who Waved At Trains a week before.

If any DJ's want personal idents from the band please message the office at messagethescreens@gmail.com

Thanks

Rick Young

Manager/ The Screens

Indiego North is an international group of songwriters and studio musicians writing extremely catchy and powerful pop songs. The group focus on hooks and strong melodies with lyrics that maintain a certain depth. It is radio friendly pop music with an edge. Indiego North has been involved in numerous TV projects, and early demos have been heavily played on underground radio stations around the globe

I write from the Danish indie label Artpop Productions, staying in my small home office, not to catch any disease. Don't we need some great music to help us to the other side?

"Into the daylight - out of the dark"

When I listen to this tune, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, though Denmark is almost closed down, and as long as there is Radio, we can still carry out this campaign.

Tine Nymann is a brand new talent, specializing in a certain laid back dreampop - the sound of a modern, sensitive and completely honest young woman, an almost naive bright voice lightening up in the darkest time. Producer Anders Carstensen on the other hand, is a very experienced sound engineer having loads of underground albums with different artists on the CV, including his own projects. He gained airplay on BBC (Radio 6), Tokyo FM, Little Stevens Underground Garage (US) and many other stations around the world. His music was used in a TV series in Ukraine and in a Russian movie as well.  

The song on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtxh8mA0frc

The song was released on Spotify 20.03.2020.

If you have trouble downloading files, please write back.

Best wishes

Peter Frost

Artpop Productions, Denmark

David Naethan is releasing his 2nd song on March 28, 2020. Paying homage to one of his favorites David recorded this cover, "I'm Not Moving," by Phil Collins. Though he implemented a sound of today in this recording he kept it close to the original feel of the song to keep the integrity and emotion behind it. David is in the process of releasing more original recordings in the near future. However, he doesn't want to move forward without bringing this song "I'm Not Moving" back to the ears of the multitude.

Song won't be on commercial sites until the release date.