Palace of Excess

Song Notes

This song had the working title “Suicide Girls”. Mark said of the song during the writing of Twilight of the Innocents:

Tim has had the basic idea for this song kicking around for sometime. We first demoed it way back during sound-checks on the last Meltdown tour. We’ve already re-recorded this as it was the first song we did when we started in September. The first version was good but we felt that after Claudius got involved we could definitely better it. We’re glad we did because it’s turned out so much better already.

This song is more in the vein of earlier classic Ash. It’s got a super catchy pop chorus but with big slamming guitars and some falsetto singing in places. Don’t worry it doesn’t sound like The Darkness! think more Beach Boys… There’s a guitar solo that’s takes a bow to “Girl From Mars” and a soaring outro. In the second verse we drop a synth line that I think is super cool, we might develop this into other parts of the song. Tim’s currently thinking about changing some lyrics, so whether or not that happens the title may change too. Nathan from Snow Patrol loved it when he heard it.