AAA Music Meets The Rudiments
aaamusic | On 29, Jun 2011
AAAMusic: How long have you been playing together?
The Rudiments: The Rudiments started as a 2 piece in early 2009 and began with Stuart Smith and Nicky Wright playing acoustically together, by the end of the summer the band had extended to a full line up and we began to work on full arrangements for our first Ep ‘Along the bottom’.
AAAMusic: What’s the meaning of the album title?
The Rudiments: Dr Bone was our producer/engineer/alchemist who worked with us to give the album the sound we needed for this record- he owns a studio right out in the sticks, doesn’t advertise…bands just sort of find him. He’s a true character in every sense of the word and a true renegade…and one of the most outlandish and creative people you will meet. He has been recording for over 35 years and has more stories than whiskers on his handle bar moustache…he’s most famously noted for working with folk/blues genius the late John Martyn which was a massive attraction for us. Bone as his friends call him would record us night and day…but every morning he would wake (Mostly from the position we left him in his engineers chair) and make us a fried breakfast- Bone’s way of working included a steady pace of drinking through the sessions and this it seemed was our cure from the night before ‘Dr Bone’s Fried Medicine’.
AAAMusic: What’s the album about?
The Rudiments: The best quote i think best describes what the album is about is this- ‘the lyrics tell stories about travels, doctors, loneliness, advices, love and escapes from this boring sameness we all share’.
The music is defined by a love of american blues and folk music- but ultimately by a british pop work ethic.
AAAMusic: How did you choose this name for the band?
The Rudiments: There are a couple of stories about how the name came about but fundamentally the name came from a desire to strip things back to basics- back to classic song writing with the creativity of the 60’s, the fire of the 50’s and the relevance of the 90’s- this for us is the rudiments of good song writing.
AAAMusic: Which are your next projects?
The Rudiments: We continue to tour and promote Dr Bone’s Fried Medicine and then it’s back into our own studio to demo new tracks which will go towards our next full album, we also go to shoot a music video which will be released to coincide with our next single. due out at the end of the summer.
Authors: Federica Carlino
