The International Love Corporation

The International Love Corporation formed with a specific purpose in mind. To make music and generate LOVE. "Every time we go onstage it is in the name of love. The love rises as we play, through the roof and out into the atmosphere beyond, making it’s way around the world in invisible strands". International love, the finest of it's kind.

The whole thing started a few years back when Comfort and a friend, Annabel, started a club using the ILC name, which was the idea for a band he hadn't quite got together yet. Good fun clubs. In the Line of Fire in Notting Hill, Blast at Spitz, the International Love Sundae in Camden.

Over the last year and a half the band has been growing and forming, held together by a central core with other free roaming satellites orbiting in and around it's vacinity. The love songs have got louder, the band larger. Psychedelic love songs, the movement downstream, the never ending flow. "We create music by channelling love throught the gaps in the clouds. We rehearse telepathically, so we have to rely on magic. No-one knows exactly what's gonna happen, but we know it's about love, so it'll always be okay. It's about catching the right wave. Then everything's fine".

The ILC have just recorded their first album, provisionally titled "The Experimental Shape of Happiness".(*note - This album can now be purchased through their website at http://www.theILC.net!)

"I'll tell you where it's at," says Comfort. "I was watching this documentary on Ken Kesey and all the Magic Bus crew and I thought really at one time people hoped and believed in all that 60's stuff. In AMERICA! Everyone dancing around singing about love with beards and hippy clothes. It's incredible. Okay so now we maybe have a different take on that time, but imagine, just for a while it must have been amazing. The world is so wierd at the moment, absolutely crazy, and it leaves a shadow on your life. So we're standing for love, we're fightimg for love. That's the way it is."

The ILC are Comfort (guitars, vocals), Greg Bone (guitars),Dan Farrant (drums), Duncan Mackay (trumpet). Juliet and Suzi Q (vocals), Magnus Box (bass), Milly and Tristan (harps), Kenny Keys and Martin Virgo (rhodes, hammond). Also involved Mike Pelanconi (the don, sound engineer, spritual sonic guide), Annabel Price (spiritual co founder of the ILC), Lillian (by special order of the WPT monks).

Verbatim from ICrunch

Out of my Hair were formed in 1993 with songwriter Comfort on bass and vocals, Sean Elliot on Guitar, Kenny Rumbles, drums, and George Muranyi on keyboards. They soon signed a deal with RCA and in 1994 released their debut single, In the Groove Again. Although not a massive commercial hit, the song was picked up by the likes of Mark Radcliffe on his old Radio 1 evening slot, and it's pure, wistful innocence captured the hearts of those who heard it, as did the haunting B-side, River of Gold. The rather more obscure Hearts Desire was the bands second single, then in 1995 they released another gem, Mr Jones, followed by there debut album, the classic Drop the Roof, in early 96.

The band spent an increasing amount of time in Japan where the album was selling well, and Comfort had his reputation enshrined in a Manga cartoon strip bearing his name.

Having spent much of the previous 6 months touring, in late 1996 Comfort announced the suspension of all activities on OOMH until ' a more appropriate time' and went off to record the album 'God is in the Detail', released in partial form as 'High Windows'. The album is somewhat darker than Drop the Roof, tracks like 'The No No People' being the polar opposite to the innocent folkiness of the 1st album, and drifting out even further with 'Is it in my Atmosphere' and 'Let me Unwind'.

By this time, Comfort had left RCA, but released a single, 'The Proof of You' on his own Insoussiance label. In 1998, he signed to Oyster Records, but the teething problems of a fledgling label forced the end of the association before ever getting round to releasing anything! God is in the Detail is available here in full form for the first time.

Having decided the time was now right, Comfort resurrected Out of my Hair, and the resulting album, Fresh, recorded through the spring and summer of 99, echoes the purer melodic style of Drop the Roof with the sharper edge of God is in the Detail. Ping-ponging around stylistically and characteristically, the high quotient of great songs (Care Alot, Jane Dear, English Meadow) ensures another classic Out of my Hair album.

By never quite swimming with the tide, Comfort's unique approaching to songwriting and recording marks him out as one of the true individuals of recent times. Gigs are planned for this year.

From Mojo Subscription Magazine - insert booklet

Comfort : The Proof of You

The kid with the cloud of red curls was kicked out of school and sent to an institution that delighted in repressing artistic urges. The door to the music room remained resolutely locked. The kid dared to take his guitar in one day. It was immediately confiscated.

Soon after at a party a bunch of Beligians misheard his name and started calling him Comfort. "My friends thought it was funny and it stuck" he says. "I decided I liked it because it was the antithesis of the way I really felt."

Thus dubbed he formed a band called Out Of My Hair who certainly had their moments among them a tour of Japan attended largely by Comfort look-alikes. But the focus on his hairstyle and the subsequent Marc Bolan comparisons wore on his nerves.

Now on his own, Comfort has cut his solo debut with veteran producer Chris Kimsey (Stones,Ash etc) who describes the 24 year old as "A genius .. impossible to tie down" The forthcoming album 'God is In The Detail' is a textured brew of sparkling melodies that belie a darker lyrical core with a vocal the swings from soothingly seductive to achingly raw and back again. The album will be released in September.
~Special thanks to M. Emsley

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