Tomorrow's Here Today

Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk

Ian Broudie

• Publisher: Nine Eight Books
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788709040
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

'All Ian Broudie's great gifts as a songwriter - melody, vulnerability, empathy, hope - turn out to be in his prose too. A lovely read' - DAVID BADDIEL 'Full of heart and sparkling melancholy' - THE I 'One of the greatest rock 'n' roll stories of the past fifty years recounted with warmth and wisdom' - HOT PRESS Few musicians have lived a musical life as rich as the songwriter and producer Ian Broudie.From recording the glorious uplifting psychedelic pop of his band the Lightning Seeds to producing bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and the Fall, Ian has journeyed from the energy and potential of the 1970s punk scene to the madness of '90s indie - and out the other side.Throughout nearly fifty years of making music, he has had a front-row seat working with generations of fantastic musicians in the creation of countless groundbreaking records. In Tomorrow's Here Today, he reveals what he has learnt about creativity, how to work with musicians touched by genius and what it is like to stumble through an exploding industry without losing sight of your dreams.Along the way, Ian shares how he wrote the million-selling album Jollification and how - along with the comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner - he wrote and recorded the only single in chart history to reach number one in the UK on four separate occasions. 'Three Lions' has since become the undisputed unofficial anthem of English football, soundtracking heartbreaking defeats as well as the wondrous victories of the Lionesses.Following 2022's long-awaited Lightning Seeds comeback, Ian reflects on a life of cosmic adventures spent in thrall to the power of music.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1. ‘Perfect’
• 2. ‘Pure’
• 3. ‘But They’re Dead Nice’
• 4. Sense
• 5. ‘He won’t be Joining you’
• 6. ‘The Back of Love’
• 7. ‘The Cutter’
• 8. ‘Jean’s not Happening’
• 9. ‘It’s Mad Up There’
• 10. ‘My Boyish Days’
• 11. Warm Aspirations in the USA
• 12. ‘A Great Bunch of Lads’
• 13. ‘Hey! Luciani’
• 14. Jollification
• 15. ‘I Was Looking in the Wrong Drawer’
• 16. ‘Who do you Think you are’
• 17. ‘Three Lions’
• 18. ‘Boris the Spider’
• 19. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’
• 20. Dizzy Heights
• 21. ‘Shut the Fuck Up!’
• 22. ‘Do you Want to Come In?’
• 23. ‘Listen to This!’
• 24. Big in Japan
• 25. ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’
• 26. ‘Permanent Danger’
• 27. Boys Cry
• 28. Tales Told
• 29. ‘Who the Fuck is That?!’
• 30. ‘Dreaming of You’
• 31. Don’t Forget Who You Are
• 32. Four Winds
• 33. ‘See you in the Stars’
• 34. ‘Walk Another Mile’
• 35. Through the Twists and Turns
• 36. Football at Christmas?!
• 37. Bound in a Nutshell
• 38. ‘You’ll Never Walk alone (Reprise)’
• 39. ‘Fit for Purpose’
• Acknowledgements