Hope some of you guys who really know your stuff about the Lads can contribute some good things! And if you don't have an answer, that's fine too.
I was just curious as to the songwriting process in the early days when the Lads first appeared on the scene. Pashernate Love and We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful, both Alain compositions, were the first songs displayed from the new group during the Kill Uncle tour. Was Alain handpicked by Moz to be the songwriter for Your Arsenal and its b-sides, being that there were no Boz co-writes during that period until Jack The Ripper at the end of the Arsenal tour? Or did Boz present some demos to Moz around the time and it was just shelved for the Alain stuff? I guess this relates to later albums as well (excluding Vauxhall which Boz contributed nearly half of), but Southpaw Grammar is very lopsided in favor of Alain. Maladjusted and Quarry has some Boz co-writes sprinkled in but Alain still does much of the musical writing.
I'm very happy Alain did the bulk of the writing (no disrespect to Boz or even Jesse). But I wonder if it was decided in advance that he would be the main songwriter, or perhaps it was just an album-by-album basis where the compositions were up in the air.
I was just curious as to the songwriting process in the early days when the Lads first appeared on the scene. Pashernate Love and We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful, both Alain compositions, were the first songs displayed from the new group during the Kill Uncle tour. Was Alain handpicked by Moz to be the songwriter for Your Arsenal and its b-sides, being that there were no Boz co-writes during that period until Jack The Ripper at the end of the Arsenal tour? Or did Boz present some demos to Moz around the time and it was just shelved for the Alain stuff? I guess this relates to later albums as well (excluding Vauxhall which Boz contributed nearly half of), but Southpaw Grammar is very lopsided in favor of Alain. Maladjusted and Quarry has some Boz co-writes sprinkled in but Alain still does much of the musical writing.
I'm very happy Alain did the bulk of the writing (no disrespect to Boz or even Jesse). But I wonder if it was decided in advance that he would be the main songwriter, or perhaps it was just an album-by-album basis where the compositions were up in the air.