Brett has posted this at The Tears forum:

"Since december last year i have been hard at work writing and re-recording my debut solo record and it's all pretty much done now. I don't have a release date yet but realistically it's gonna be very early next year. I believe it's right up there with some of my best work but you will be able to make up your own minds when i play some warm up shows in the second half of 2006. A brett anderson website is on it's way and i will post the link when i'm happy with it.

'till then be happy, Brett"

Yesterday (june 20), Brett was chatting with the fans at the brettanderson.co.uk forum.
Here you can read his answers.

Brett on brettanderson.co.uk forum:

" i am sitting here in my living room at home waiting for someone to drop round a cd of the mixed album. gonna be mastered next friday ...sounding super-duper. art work is very nearly done. me and that crumpled old pervert Peter Saville and a very famous photographer have come up with something lovely for you all. keep your ears to the ground and your eyes peeled for fun and games happening soon...rehearsing with the band next week... it's only me and the guitar player who aren't Scandinavian....i guess i should learn a bit more than 'tak' really... oh well ...shit, that's the door...gotta go.... "

Brett has posted on the brettanderson.co.uk forum about 'Love Is Dead', the key song from his album. I added the info to the 'Facts' section.

Brett and Simon Gilbert will be online at the brettanderson.co.uk forum next wednesday sept 20 at 18:00 GMT

Yesterday (september 20), Brett was chatting with the fans at the brettanderson.co.uk forum.
Here you can read his answers.

Brett has posted a message at his official forum:

"alright folks... thought you've all been so lovely recently that you deserve an up- date . tussand tak for all the birthday messages etc. i particularly liked the september 29th song.... nice hippy-dippy vibes that reminded me of a world i never knew... maybe i should have put more pan-pipes on the new record...oh well. not long now till i get to send back my telegram from the queen i guess...

so the album is mixed ( by the lovely Steve Fitzmaurice),mastered( by the superlative Bunt Stafford Clarke) and ready to penetrate your eardrums. i've lived with the songs for so long and i still love them...i suppose that means something. the record will be released early next year on Drowned in Sound records in the UK and a major who i have worked with before ( sorry can't be specific cos we are still dealing lawyers) in the rest of the world.

as i said last time i popped on here, me, Peter saville and Wolfgang Tillmans have been squirreling away at the artwork . we have tried to create something human and vulnerable , delicate and damaged that resonates with the openness and simplicity of the music. the idea is for the sleeve to usher you into my little world . the Tillmans shots were taken in my studio at home with a million reference points dotted around me like little stars. i suppose there's a parralel with that Style Council sleeve- My Favorite Shop (get googling anyone not brought up in the 80's)..

rehearsals haver been going nicely. the band might evolve and change but at the moment we have Fred on keys, Jim Dare on guitar, Bastion on bass( although i have been recently rehearsing with someone you all know well) and Kriss Sonne on drums( incidentally...one of the best drummers i have ever met) .So there you go...cats out of bags and all that. hopefully it won't be too long before you can come along and shout for The Drowners. there will be a couple of bona fide surprises live so watch out and stay focussed.

if this endless waiting is frustrating for you ,imagine what it is like for me. i would dearly love to put the record out tomorrow but i know it wouldn't be the right thing to do. i am having trouble staying sane during this period to be honest so please don't imagine i have ever drifted or that i am anything than 1000 % committed. we're trying to carefully lay the right foundations to support and devellop my work so that i can make albums 2, 3 and beyond so please have patience and faith and know that no decisions about anything to do with this are taken lightly.

until next time...

Brett"

Brett has talked on his official forum about the strings on his solo album:

"ok... folks, yes, just so you know , there are veritable balls of strings on the album. those of you who have been paying attention will have heard me say before that the album is characterised by string loops. 'love is dead' wouldn't really exist if it wasn't for the string part. as far as i'm concerned, that loop IS the song pretty much. it was a fucker to get right because it's probably the first song i've ever done with a flat dynamic( except She's Into Fascism i suppose).... i.e the song is woven around a cyclical chord sequence with no big kind of key-change 'here comes the chorus' moment. this means you have to build dymamics into the track with layering and tonal variations rather than relying on the chord progression to do the work. i guess this is pretty much how dance music works but i'm no expert.
b sides sound good to me. one interesting thing about them is that i played all the guitars. it's something i am really enjoying at the moment- sitting by squeeling amps for hours fiddling with tone controls. i just aquired a telecaster and a new classical guitar which i have been wrestling with. there's quite a lot of my naive classical guitar playing on the album . well i like it anyway."

This is from the news section on brettanderson.co.uk:

"from monday (oct. 30) there will be a regular fortnightly solo performance by brett available on you tube. material will range from brand new songs to very old songs with a few surprises thrown in. the season starts off with an exclusive world premier of 'scorpio rising'; a track from his forthcoming album."

The video of Brett Anderson performing 'Scorpio Rising' is now available at YouTube

This is not official yet but Brett's song 'Scorpio Rising' will be on the soundtrack of the russian action film 'Paragraph 78' (directed by Mikhail Khleborodov) and was recorded together with Ilia Lagutenko (singer of the russian band Mumiy Troll).
The shooting of the video clip for 'Scorpio Rising' took place in the streets of Moscow on the 28–29th of October. Here you can see some pictures of the shooting.
Brett will be playing a gig in a Moscow club called B1 on February 24.

A video of Brett Anderson performing a stunning version of 'Europe Is Our Playground' is now available at YouTube

A video of Brett Anderson performing 'Song For My Father' is now available at YouTube
The song is dedicated to Peter Anderson who passed away in the summer of 2005.

A video of Brett Anderson performing a cover version of Linda Perry's 'Beautiful' is now available at YouTube

Brett Anderson has upload another video at YouTube. The song's called 'Back To You' and it was co-written by Brett with Fred Ball. A version of the song will appear on the new Pleasure (Fred's band) album which is released in early 2007.