Willkommen Collective proudly presents The Good Ship by The Climbers, a Willkommen studio project featuring members of The Leisure Society, Sons Of Noel & Adrian, The Miserable Rich, Shoreline, Christian Silva, Absentee and more. It’s a bit live, a bit lush and hopefully more than a bit rewarding. The Climbers are named after trips to the Lake District taken by chief songwriter Tim West, his school pal Christian Hardy and legions of musical friends. Tim and Christian’s friendship began on their first such excursion from their home town of Burton Upon Trent, a school field trip during which they found a shared fixation on OK Computer, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers and death. Schoolboy sessions on Tim West’s songs began at his parent’s house, with Christian Hardy picking out parts on the family piano. (During this period, Tim was to introduce Christian to Nick Hemming during Climbers sessions, leading to the formation of The Leisure Society.) Since then Christian and Nick have been helping Tim to craft The Good Ship in between their work recording and promoting their own debut album. Recorded in South London, Brighton, Burton-On-Trent, Wales, Devon and Northumberland, ‘The Good Ship’ is a debut that captures in full the sounds of houses packed with friends making music, as it happened. It’s an album to immerse yourself in, not necessarily one to dip into. After 5 years of ad-hoc shipbuilding, we hope you enjoy it. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.