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Speaker 1: A Lexicon of Life is the name of a new
Speaker 1: book from the lead singer of ABC. We have Martin
Speaker 1: Frye joining us right now. First of all, thank you
Speaker 1: for your time today. And how long did it take
Speaker 1: to put together this new book, A Lexicon of Life?
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago I thought I'd put a
Speaker 2: book together. Took about two months to write. I wanted
Speaker 2: to write it myself, all about my life adventures, the
Speaker 2: ups and downs, the roller coaster of my ride in
Speaker 2: the music business over the last thirty years. So that
Speaker 2: came together, put a lot of photographs in, did a
Speaker 2: big art book first. That sold out, so we're putting
Speaker 2: out part two. It took about six months, I suppose, Yeah,
Speaker 2: printed in Yeah, yeah, six months.
Speaker 1: And the thing that's nice there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people who are listening right now who are huge fans
Speaker 1: of the music. You've been doing this for quite some time.
Speaker 1: ABC has got a bunch of huge hits, and you've
Speaker 1: had a chance to go all over the world because
Speaker 1: of that and meet some amazing people and work with
Speaker 1: some amazing people, haven't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a still a fan of music after all
Speaker 2: these years. We started off in the early eighties having
Speaker 2: hits with Poison Arrow, the Look of Love, All of
Speaker 2: My Heart and had a great kind of run through
Speaker 2: the eighties into the nineties. In recent years, I've been
Speaker 2: playing live all over the world. Yeah, I've been playing
Speaker 2: a big orchestral show in Europe with the South Bank
Speaker 2: Simfhonia Orchestra and Dudley conducting an ABC the band that's
Speaker 2: been working out well. We toured last August September with
Speaker 2: Howard Jones and all the way across the USA and
Speaker 2: the response was fantastic, sold out shows, great pformances, great
Speaker 2: great nights. So we figured we'd do it all again.
Speaker 2: So I'm heading off to San Francisco to start a
Speaker 2: tour next week play eighteen shows through into March.
Speaker 1: I love that and one of the things that I
Speaker 1: think people like the most about watching you perform, even
Speaker 1: to this day, you can tell by watching that you
Speaker 1: are having a blast on stage. You absolutely love what
Speaker 1: you get to do, don't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you coin stand in an audience,
Speaker 2: you want to see something exciting. You don't want to say, oh,
Speaker 2: that guy was great back in the day. So I'm
Speaker 2: money as good as the next show I play. But
Speaker 2: I like to hit the ground running and slay the hits.
Speaker 2: We're co headling co headlining with Howard Jones, so we're
Speaker 2: in good hands, you know. But his music compliments what
Speaker 2: we're doing and vice versa, so it makes for a
Speaker 2: really strong show. Yeah, and there's a feel good factor.
Speaker 2: I feel really privileged to be able to stand on
Speaker 2: a stage in twenty twenty five, stand in that spotlight.
Speaker 2: There's a microphone in my hand, look out into the
Speaker 2: audience for see people having fun. It's a great experience.
Speaker 1: Now we've seen Hour Jones perform, and we've seen ABC perform,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we've ever seen you guys perform together.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to have to catch that tour and
Speaker 1: again if other folks would like to catch it. The
Speaker 1: website here ABC martinfry dot com. Is that where we
Speaker 1: go to find tickets for that and for the book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to distribute it. For the book
Speaker 2: in America have its Europe, so it's some super fans
Speaker 2: of you know who really want to get hold of
Speaker 2: the book. They just ship it. But yeah, all the
Speaker 2: information is on there at yeah ww dot abc biktry
Speaker 2: dot com, so you can see the book and how
Speaker 2: to get a hold of it. Yeah, very much.
Speaker 1: I love that. Now I'm reading here about the orchestral performance.
Speaker 1: Is when you do that, do you bring an orchestra
Speaker 1: with you or do you work with an orchestra in
Speaker 1: each community that you actually go to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the Lexican and Love orchestra. I sound like
Speaker 2: Barry White, don't I. But it's like a fifty five
Speaker 2: people on stage. There are talks at the moment about
Speaker 2: trying to play some orchestral shows in America, but that
Speaker 2: would be with perhaps the local philharmonics and stuff. I'll
Speaker 2: bring the chart up and we'll put together the shirt.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime I get to play with the
Speaker 2: band on the up and coming tour in February. Yet
Speaker 2: just the band. It's not the orchestra on that one.
Speaker 1: Even with the outh the orchestra, I would still have
Speaker 1: a chance to see you and Howard Jones together. I
Speaker 1: think that would be really good. Again, Martin fry from ABC,
Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time to chat, and thank
Speaker 1: you for putting out this book. I know super fans
Speaker 1: are gonna love it.
Speaker 2: Thank John. Yeah, it's an honest story about the rollercoaster ride. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring people into my world to see
Speaker 2: exactly what goes on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Again, our guest today has been Martin frye his new book,
Speaker 1: A Lexicon of Life. Martin, thank you again for taking
Speaker 1: the time to chat today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no prop that take care job.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Again Martin fry from the band ABC and his
Speaker 1: new book, A Lexicon of Life is out right now.
Speaker 1: I've got a link to it at Facebook dot com,
Speaker 1: slash Sunny Radio and you can find it directly on
Speaker 1: his website as well, that's ABC, Martinfry dot com.
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