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Stripped down versions of tracks from Flicker. ldquoOn my debut solo album The View From Halfway Down I did all of my promotion via Zoom and prerecorded interviews and acoustic sessions,rdquo explains Andy of the EP. ldquoI enjoyed making the acoustic versions and decided to do some more for this album.rdquo ldquolsquoSomething Like Loversquo is the most popular song from Flicker and one of the oldest, starting life in the rsquo90s. Itrsquos probably the only one that dates back to the Ride era. The riffs for lsquoWorld Of Echorsquo were written while I was on tour with Oasis, at the height of my Larsquos obsession. It went through a few iterations from then onwards, but never had a final melody until last year. lsquoShe Calls The Tunersquo was the first song I wrote after I joined Oasis, ending a period of writersrsquo block which I had started going through some time in 1999. The very first performance of it was to an audience of Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Richard Ashcroft in a Milan hotel room. No pressure I donrsquot think I ever saw this as an Oasis song, but I have them to thank for the fact that I was able to write songs again at all.rdquo lsquoLifelinersquo was another riff I came up with while on tour with Oasis. I remember being on a UK tour with Shack, and sitting around backstage on acoustics with Mick and John Head jamming around the Simon amp Garfunkel version of lsquoScarborough Fairrsquo. The riff for lsquoLifelinersquo followed soon after. It was always called lsquoLifelinersquo but I never found the right lyric for it until recently. Andy Bell is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only u00a318 +P&P