MELTDOWN FOR THE MINDLESS

Peter Coyle's latest album, released in 2006 and available exclusively from this website in this very special limited edition.

The first 250 copies of MELTDOWN FOR THE MINDLESS will include an UNIQUE POLAROID PHOTOGRAPH taken and SIGNED by Peter Coyle and will be packaged in a NUMBERED hand-folded wrapper with a TWELVE-PAGE BOOKLET.

Want to know more? Read our Peter Coyle INTERVIEW or listen to the story of how the release of 'Meltdown For The Mindless', Peter's most recent album, came about - including music from the album on our Peter Coyle podcast, available from iTUNES or direct from the PODCASTS page.

• Blue Heart On The Motorway

 

EARTHSTATE

PETER COYLE - "Earthstate was written mostly on Edge Lane in Liverpool in a bare empty flat. I worked with Barry Sutton, who played guitar, and Andy Stevenson, who engineered the album, and recorded it in my own studio in Wood Street Liverpool in 1995 just before I left for Edinburgh.

It was my last year in Liverpool before I moved up to Edinburgh to go and study at the university there. My life was a mess andI needed to get myself some space from my own history. I realised with horror that I was completely lost and burnt out. I had no answers so I needed to get some rest and some space and some direction. I needed to start again. I needed to find out if I should carry on making music...

As a human being I had made some mega-wrong choices and I needed to take responsibility for that. As a human being I was not adding up to much. I needed to be a human being not just a music machine. A person who makes the world a better place.

At the time I wrote two songs that mean a lot to me, 'Hello' and 'Face The Pain'. I also wrote an acoustic album with Barry Sutton, which is this one, Earthstate. Again this album was an important album for me. It is a very personal record. I was saying goodbye to Liverpool and possibly saying goodbye to music so it was a very emotional record."

THE MOOD MACHINE

PETER COYLE - "The Mood Machine was recorded in 2001 and was recorded and produced by Ronnie Stone in his studio in Birkenhead.

Music can change your life. Music is my mood machine. And music and mood are important parts of everyone's life, whether they recognise it or not. Most of my life I have worn masks and tried to distract myself in all sorts of ways. It is not unusual, most of us live like that. With this album I wanted to be as transparent as possible and to hell with everything else...

I wrote the songs with a new-found friend in Steve-Allen Jones. Steve is a keyboard player based in Wales. We worked on the songs for the album in his studio before we took it to Ronnie Stones studio to master it. We were very lucky to also have the brilliant guitar of David Cottrell as well as the superb bass and drums from Steve Jones and Tim Whittaker."

• All I Need

 

STAY DEEP IN THE MUSIC

PETER COYLE - "'Stay Deep in the Music' was recorded in 2002 and was recorded and Produced by Ronnie Stone in his studio in Birkenhead.

Music is about playing live and sharing the love and light that music gives us. This album was a reflection of the gigs we were doing at the time. It is more of a band album with Duncan Ross on guitar, Jim Sangster on bass, Jim on drums and Alice on flute and saxophone.

'Call Me Up' is a beautiful song even though I say so myself..."

KISS THE VISION