Enormous are presently working hard on a new album which is provisionally entitled Lust and Loathing at the Tender Heart.

I suppose when it is finished in a few months it will be something of a ‘concept’ album if the truth be told: the songs on there are mostly personal portraits and saucy little vignettes about people wandering in and out of a fictitious nightclub , the Tender Heart.

We have about thirty or forty new songs that we’re working on in the studio at the moment. When I sat back just before Christmas and tried to organise them into some kind of structure, I realised that twelve or fifteen or so of them had someone’s name in the title, songs like Alpha Betty, Anastasia, Moaning Lisa, The Ballad of Jack and Vera and what will undoubtedly be something of a title track for the new record, Jeremy’s Tender Heart.

The story behind Jeremy’s Tender Heart, without giving too much away, is . . . well, you’ll have to wait for the album to be released. At the moment, I’m thinking of locating the Tender Heart in New York and making Jeremy, its owner, English, and his wife American. I have no idea why. Our Jeremy has something of an epiphany in verse 3 and all hell breaks lose. (Why NYC, particularly? Probably something to do with another song called Why I Ran New York (another composition which features a couple of star-crossed lovers) which may or may not make it on to the album.

We’re very excited about Lust and Loathing at the Tender Heart. A big, shiny new Enormous album, the first one in ten years.

Along the way, we shall keep you informed of its progress, post rough mixes for you to listen to, as well as talking about some of our earlier songs and the circumstances that led Enormous to where we are now.