And it was all looking so good, then they added a Coldplay track, damn. Ah well, I guess it should boost public interest in the project, which is, of course, a good thing.
Anyway, well done to the War Child charity, who successfully put their new 'Help' album live online at 6.10pm London time on Friday, just 32 hours after the first band involved in the project entered the studio. The charity hope that gives them the record of the fastest ever produced album and, more importantly, that the album will now generate considerable profits to fund their work supporting children living in war torn parts of the world.
With the last minute additions to the project of Babyshambles and Coldplay, the album now features the following 22 tracks:
Antony and the Johnsons and Boy George - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Babyshambles - Bollywood to Battersea
Belle & Sebastian - The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House
Bloc Party - The Present
Coldplay - How You See The World
The Coral (produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley) - It Was Nothing
Damien Rice - Crosseyed Bear
Elbow - Snowball
Emmanuel Jal - Gua
The Go! Team - Phantom Broadcast
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
Hard-Fi - Help Me Please
Kaiser Chiefs - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Keane and Faultline - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Magic Numbers - Gone Are the Days
The Manic Street Preachers - Leviathan
Maximo Park - Wasteland
Mylo - Mars Needs Women
Radiohead - I Want None of It
Razorlight - Kirby's House
Tinariwen - Cler Achel
The Zutons - Hello Conscience
The album is available to download track by track, or as a whole album, from War Child's own music website http://www.warchildmusic.com. The album will also have a CD release on Independiente on 26 Sep.
As previously reported, the new project marks the tenth anniversary of the original Help album, also recorded in the space of 24 hours, that time to raise money to help children caught up in the Bosnian war.