All the Plans (2007–2009) In 2007, Starsailor began recording demos for the follow up to 2005's On The Outside. Their frontman, James Walsh, referred to their first single,"Tell Me It's Not Over," as: "The one [demo] which everyone is raving about is called "Lights Out" or "Tell Me It's Not Over" [we have not decided yet!]" and added, "It's got a massive drum beat, reminiscent of Doves and U2. Another couple of these and we will have a truly great album." Based on what James Walsh has said, the new album will have "struck a great balance between their heavier side and their more emotional downbeat side. There are some stompers certainly but also the ballads are back!". In an earlier post the band said that they had written 15 songs for the album, and demoed the songs "Let Go", "Do You Believe In Love?", "Will Not Stop Now" and "Change My Mind". "Rebel Blues", "Miss You", "Here's To The Man" and "Let Go" were also mentioned at that point as possible tracks.
In an interview with Manchester Evening News[2] in September 2007 James Walsh admitted that he wants Starsailor to be bigger and more successful. He also added that the fourth album had "a lot of soul" and that they've "tried to write classic songs, work the sounds around them, instead of experimenting too much".
"Even if there isn't a particular theme to the new material "married life and international politics are some of the key ingredients among the 16 songs which have been recorded to date". James Walsh
Starsailor started to play in various gigs during the months recording their fourth album. James Walsh also played at several events in 2007, like the SXSW festival in Texas in March 2007, and an acoustic show in London on the 12th of March. The show is notable for not having a setlist; rarities such as the hardly played "Restless Heart" was played, due to a request from the front row. In addition to this he played the song "Tell Me It's Not Over", the track from the work-in-progress fourth album (early arrivals saw Walsh soundcheck half the song). Walsh and Stelfox played an unplugged set on the 13 April 2007 in Switzerland with Mark Collins of The Charlatans. They played 2 songs that will probably be on their fourth album.
Further support in Europe for The Rolling Stones took place in mid-June; these were late additions, and fitted in with the band's festival schedule. The previous concert before the Stones' support was in Den Haag, Holland; the band debuted the first full-band version of "Tell Me It's Not Over". Starsailor had embarked on a tour of the UK during October 2007 in support of Fairtrade. They have debuted a number of new songs during the tour as "Boy in Waiting" and "All the Plans". The lyrics for "Tell Me It's Not Over" had changed considerably since the first time they've sang it.
Their first travel to Latin America was confirmed after a long time of speculation about it. Starsailor supported The Killers on November, 2007 on their dates in Argentina and Chile and opens the possibility of more dates that they could make by their own in other countries of the region. During their performance on October 30 in Buenos Aires they were received by about 200 fans. They sang "Tell Me It's Not Over" and also "Boy in Waiting".
In another interview, this time with the Chilean newspaper La Tercera, they announced they'll present the song "Tell Me It's Not Over" officially for the first time in public. Starsailor was invited by The Parlotones to Johannesburg on October, 2008 playing with this gig on every continent [3]."
In January 2008 it was confirmed that Starsailor would play on June at the Isle of Wight Festival on the last day, with The Police headlining on that date. They also played at Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park the same month with The Police as headliners. They also confirmed that they would play at "Rockin" Park' in Holland on Saturday 28 June, on the third day of the 2008 Cactus Festival at Minnewaterpark, Brugge, Belgium on Saturday 12 July, and the Open Air Gampel Festival in Switzerland on Saturday 16 August. On December 2007 it was published on Youtube a video named "Santa Walsh is coming to town" which shows frontman James Walsh playing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on the studio set of their fourth album.
On February 25, 2008 Starsailor played an acoustic set at an intimate central London location where they added to the setlist three new possible tracks: "Walk These Wet Streets" (released on the album as 'Hurts Too Much'), "Keep The Blues Away" ('The Thames') and "Stars & Stripes".
On September 19, 2008 Starsailor performed for the second edition "Stars of Europe" concert at Brussels in support of UNICEF where they covered U2's single "All I Want Is You"[4]
Later it was confirmed that Steve Osborne is the producer of the album. Steve Osbourne has also produced Starsailor's first studio album. On March 20, 2008, frontman James posted on the official Starsailor forum announcing the album had been completed.[5] The Sun revealed on April 2008 that Ronnie Wood from The Rolling Stones had agreed to work with the band on their new album after an approach with lead singer James Walsh. [6] On October 16, 2008 it was officially confirmed that the new album will be called All The Plans and will be released in March, 2009.[3]." On December 3, Boy In Waiting EP was released as a free digital download for those who pre-order the deluxe edition of All The Plans.[7]. It contains three of the tracks that couldn't make the album.
The album debuted at Number 26 in the UK Album Charts on March 14, 2009, while 'Tell Me It's Not Over' spent one week in the UK Singles Chart, reaching Number 73 and peaked #5 in the Belgium Charts becoming Starsailor's most successful single in that country. On May 20, 2009 Starsailor was named Hard Rock's Philanthropic Artist Of The Year in recognition of the work they've done in support of the Caron Keating Doundation, the AECC of Barcelona and Nordoff – Robbins Music Therapy, as well as having contributed an exclusive cover of Military Madness by Graham Nash to the World Hunger Year Serve3 Charity album.
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