"Trixies was conceived by Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook when they were just teenagers, 19 and 16, respectively, at the very start of their musical partnership. Inspired by the rock operas and concept albums of the early 1970s, the songs are a collection of stories set in a fictional nightclub, Trixies. The grandeur of the project, however, was still beyond the burgeoning songwriters' capabilities."
""We fully committed ourselves to songwriting, but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record," Difford revealed in a press statement. "Long story short, these were songs that we just didn't have enough musical experience to record properly.""
""The songs that we wrote then astound me. I'm proud of them now, and I'm particularly proud that it was young us that did that," Tilbrook explained. "These are very much the same songs that we wrote then. The only difference is that now I can teach the songs to the rest of the band. Back then, I didn't even know what the names of the chords were!""
Squeeze will release Trixies, the band's first new album in eight years, on March 6 via BMG with pre-orders underway. The songs predate the band's 1978 debut and were conceived by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook when they were teenagers, inspired by early 1970s rock operas and concept albums. The material forms stories set in a fictional nightclub called Trixies, but the pair lacked the experience then to realize the project's grandeur. Fifty years later they returned to the original cassette tapes to record the songs with the band. Another full-length album recorded at the same time is finished and awaiting release. The band will join Madness for a European arena tour beginning November 15.
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