The Lightning Seeds on new album ‘See You In The Stars’: “I’d lost confidence in myself”

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The Lightning Seeds have announced their first album in 13 years, ‘See You In The Stars’. Check out new single ‘Sunshine’ below along with our interview with frontman Ian Broudie.Due for release on October 14, the album coincides with a new 14-date tour for the Autumn.Although Lightning Seeds’ 1996 football anthem ‘Three Lions’ with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner has revisited the Top 40 singles chart four times in the last 13 years – reaching Number One in 2018 – ‘Sunshine’ is the first new Lightning Seeds song since their sixth album ‘Four Winds’ was released in 2009.The band have stayed busy by regularly touring and playing festivals, which is a change of direction as Broudie – who effectively is Lightning Seeds – didn’t tour at all until his alias’ third album ‘Jollification’ in 1994.

He was initially known as a producer, making records with Echo And The Bunnymen, The Fall, Shack and The Specials’ singer Terry Hall.

Broudie returned to producing in the ’00s, helping The Coral and The Zutons get started.Having enjoyed melodic hits with Lightning Seeds since the ’80s such as ‘Pure’, ‘The Life Of Riley’ and ‘You Showed Me’, Broudie explains how he suffered a lack of confidence and was happy to finally enjoy being a frontman instead.Ian Broudie: “The last Lightning Seeds album, ‘Four Winds’, was a funny one.

It never felt like a Lightning Seeds album. I was writing songs more like my solo album, ‘Tales Told’ (from 2004), but there was big pressure on me to make a Lightning Seeds album.