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Late 1990 saw Thomas & the band touring to promote the 'Little Moscow' album. The band also appeared on The Jonathon Ross Radio Show (BBC Radio 1).
September 16th 1991 saw the release of the 3rd Thomas Lang album, 'The Lost Letter Z' . This was the first post-CBS album, on the bands own Dry label. Financial backing for this label came from David Moores (head of Littlewoods Pools & Liverpool FC Chairman). Live dates accompanied the album, including the now obligatory Ronnie Scott's gigs.
'Feels So Right' was the single released from 'The Lost Letter Z' . Thomas and John Murphy appeared on the Bob Harris show on Radio 1 around this time, performing acoustic versions of 'Injury' & 'Logic' .
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Dry released the compilation album 'Outside Over There - A Retrospective' in 1993, which was closely followed by the soundtrack to the film 'Leon The Pig Farmer' later that year, featuring music composed by Hughes / Murphy (the album also included Thomas on 6 tracks). |
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Following the last batch of gigs with the band in 1993, Thomas appeared live once more, but in a very different setting. He appeared live as part of the Greenwich Festival on 6/6/94 at St Alfege Church, Greenwich, performing 'Amongst Other Things' with The Smith Quartet . 'Amongst Other Things' was a collection of songs for amplified string quartet and voice, and was only performed live on four occasions. An album 'Amongst Other Things' was recorded with The Smith Quartet & Colin Reilly but remains unreleased to date.
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Thomas left Dry Communications in 1994, and worked on film soundtracks ('Solitare For Two' in 1994, and 'Feast At Midnight' in 1995), as well as recording for Columbia in Japan.
The first Thomas Lang studio album since 1991, 'Versions' , appeared in 1996 on Telegraph Records . Made up in the main of cover versions, the album hinted at a change in musical direction and saw Thomas working with other musicians as well as his regular band. The album was also released in Japan in two formats - 'Covers' (1994) & 'Editions' (1997).
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David Hughes & John Murphy continued to record film soundtracks, including 'Leon The Pig Farmer' , 'The Real Howard Spitz' , 'Feast At Midnight' , & 'Solitaire For 2' . A major project was for the highly acclaimed soundtrack to 'Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels'. For more details of the films David & John have worked on, visit the Internet Movie Database. |
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According to the Telegraph Records web-site, a new studio album, 'Fantastic Room', was recorded with John Uriel , scheduled for release in Spring 1997. But the web-site (and the record company too) disappeared in late 1997 and it all went quiet on the Lang front...
Until now! Thomas has got a new band together, and has started playing live again, so there is more to come from one of Liverpool's favourite sons. So keep visiting 'outside over there' for all the latest Thomas Lang news.
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