The Room in the Wood (released 22 June 2018) is the first joint project from Paul Cavanagh and Dave Jackson since their Liverpool post-punk band, The Room, split in 1985.
Joined by percussionist Colin George Lamont (Mark Lanegan, Dave Gahan) and Jake Woodward (Peter Perrett) the album follows rapidly on the tail of their debut EP. The vinyl version of the album features 11 new songs with a bonus track on the digital and CD version.
They also recently revealed their new music video for the first single Magical Thinking (watch above) which opens with a desert blues-like riff that highlights the breadth of influences at play throughout the album from post-punk and blues to folk-rock.
The album was recorded with Steve Powell (Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band) at his Liverpool Arc studio.
Singer/lyricist Dave Jackson has been writing and recording since his teens in bands such as 051, The Room, Benny Profane, Dust, Dead Cowboys, under his own name with former Shack guitarist John Head, and as Dave Jackson & The Cathedral Mountaineers. He has recorded and released 10 albums with these various incarnations and, during the eighties, notched up seven John Peel sessions with The Room and Benny Profane, as well as appearing on the Whistle Test, Janice Long and Saturday Live. He has toured extensively in the UK, Europe and the USA with bands such as The Fall, The Violent Femmes, Aztec Camera, The Lemonheads and The Wedding Present, and currently teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University, having developed his novel Violet City as a low-budget fantasy feature film.
Guitarist Paul Cavanagh has played with Chinese Religion, The Balcony, Ludus, The Room, Top, It’s Immaterial, Gloss and Moongoose, has performed as a solo instrumentalist as Cabin in the Woods and as one of Mike Badger’s Shady Trio. Paul also worked with former Room drummer Alan Wills at Deltasonic records, with acts such as The Coral and The Zutons and managed The Basement. Paul has toured in the UK, USA, and Europe and recorded four John Peel sessions as well as releasing albums with The Room, Top, It’s Immaterial, Moongoose and several critically acclaimed singles with Gloss.
Order The Room in the Wood via Bandcamp.