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The Kinks to Release Unheard Songs on New Album
- Posted on Mar 5th 2010 5:30AM by Farah Ishaq
Mick Avory, longtime drummer for seminal British rock group the Kinks has reconfirmed that they will be releasing a new album in the near future, working from archive tracks written by Ray and Dave Davies.Speaking at the launch of London Legends Rock Masterclasses, where he will advise budding percussionists from Apr. 27, Avory told Spinner, "Things are always bubbling under or over with the Kinks -- I'm never quite sure if we're going to do them or not. We are certainly doing another album. We've got old tracks which need to be baked. You have to go through this process to transfer them to digital, it's a bit of a process and you only get one shot at it.
The drummer confirmed, "We've certainly got eight tracks we could use there, so we're going to have to do some more to make the numbers up for an album."
Speaking about the famously feuding rock 'n' roll Davies siblings, Avory said the delay in releasing the new album is because "in our case it's Ray and Dave that have got to work together, once they've slotted together, we can go ahead. All the while they are not wanting to do what the other wants to do, it goes nowhere."
The Kinks last performed together in 1996, and are now one of the few '60s British bands whose members are all still alive and performing music.
Avory is just one of the artists taking part in the five-day Rock Masterclass at West London's Metropolis Studios next month. Others teaching and coaching include the Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock, Squeeze's Chris Difford and Ian McLagan of the Faces and Small Faces.
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I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Mick Avory, his lovely wife and beautiful daughter in Antigua. We all celebrated New Year's 1999 turning to 2000 by dancing our butts off! Mick Avory is truly a class act.
March 30 2012 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
dj0454
Ray and Dave and the Kinks are a living legend of rock.
Even now with Dave not being able to perfom because of his stoke. Ray is still perfoming shows on a regular basis. And Ray rocks out too. You have to give The Kinks
Credit when credit is due.They stayed around all these years and Ray hasn't written a bad song in all that time. LONG LIVE THE KINKS!!
faustushood
@Bonnie
Can't reply to your comment cos the button is missing but you replied to mine....so....Moesha is not a racist or bigot for not liking the Kinks don't be silly.....however, they are a racist or bigot for the ugly, bigoted, remarks they posted which were subsequently erased by Spinner (likely due to their inappropriateness) so I guess you didn't get a chance to read them and ended up looking inadvertently foolish for jumping to the defense of a hate-monger
Rosie Rook
Bobby Graham was a great drummer, but clearly beyond the first two Kinks albums, he is not playing--just not his style. Avory has much more a jazz inflection to his drumming which made for some great stuff from Face to Face to Schoolboys in Disgrace. Then, for good or ill, The Kinks became, musically, a much more straight ahead rock band (although still lyrically in their own space), and Avory's jazz touch was put on a backburner.
March 08 2010 at 9:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
nlkink
And yes, another idiot is trying sell us the crap about Jimmy Page playing the solo of You Really Got Me. He did not! He admitted that himself. And it has been confirmed by their producer at the time, Shel Talmy.
March 08 2010 at 10:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
nlkink
Bobby Graham was the studio drummer during the early days (late 1964/early 1965). It was Mick Avory who drummed on all of The Kinks'albums from then until 1984, with exception of some tracks on 1978's Misfits album.
Pete
Mick Avory drumming great. Dave Davies played lead break on You Really Got Me. FACTS
March 08 2010 at 3:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Fizwho
Where have all the good times gone?
March 06 2010 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
john mckenn
Englands greatest band have always been hindered by the misinformed and the disingenuous and of course the envious.Cant wait for the album , make it happen lads !
March 06 2010 at 5:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
ChineseBookie
yer an idjit. The Kinks had 5 US Top 10 singles.In the UK, they had seventeen Top 20 singles along with five Top 10 albums. And they are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
March 05 2010 at 9:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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