| Tower Of Love | - Jim Noir's debut album, Tower Of Love, is out on My Dad Recordings on Mon 5 Dec
- It's 12 songs long and includes all three singles, Eanie Meany, My Patch and A Quiet Man
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All three EPs are sold-out successes. How do you think the album will do? "I just hope that someone out there likes it. I don’t count success in number of units sold terms. I count success in how unsleepable in my bedroom is. It’s full of wires." There's already people bidding for the album on eBay. Are you about to fly into a Justin Hawkins style rage?  | | Jim Noir |
"Naa, I love it. If I can get £25 for a CDR of my album to buy pork pies with, who am I to turn my nose up? Let the people share, I say." Equally as exciting as the album release is news of your debut live show. How are preparations going? "Very nicely indeed. As promised, I have assembled my team and we are honing, honing, honing all the way into the night, ready to screw it all up in front of tens of people. Not really, we're gonna be the second best band in the world!" How do you feel about being at the centre of so much excitement? "I like the idea of me standing in the centre of some imaginary central place, with all these people going mad around me frothing with excitement. But no, I think you’re building it up too much, it’s not all that. People are just lightly twitching at the moment, sort of quietly growling." Will the live show be a reformation of your childhood band, Batfinks?  | | Jim Noir |
"I have certainly never been IN Batfinks before. I was in a band WITH him, but never in. Good saying that, withim nottinim. No, he's got his own farm now and he spends his days milking sheep and generally living the country life with his wife Barbara. Maybe one day we'll relive the old days and get out the old Atari, reel off a few old jolly favourites, but up until then, I hate him and I never want to hear his name again, the *******." You played everything on the album, is it hard to trust others to get things right live? "It’s been more of a huge help than anything. I’m terrible at remembering my own arrangements so I kind of follow the band in a way. It’s nice like that though, cos at least nobody is stuck to just plugging away at a guitar or whatever. The tunes are evolving because of that." It's nearly a year since Eanie Meany hit the shops, has life changed much in those past 12 months? | "If I can get £25 for a CDR of my album to buy pork pies with, who am I to turn my nose up? Let the people share, I say." | | Jim Noir on his album getting a pre-release on eBay |
"Well, I’m a year older, a year wiser, a year nearer death. But enough jollity, let’s talk serious. No, I’ve just been doing the same old really, although interviews and photo sessions, lunches with my accountants and general back slapping label dos are becoming more frequent, which is nice, cos I like nothing more than a free shandy. I’ve also got more stuff with knobs on them, which always makes me feel like achieved something. Nah, just looks good, I’m one of those people who sets up their studio and then just looks at it." How good a Christmas present is Tower Of Love? "I’ve already got it to be honest so don’t get me that, but anything will do. Anyway, you shouldn’t have told me, I hate it when I know what I’m getting, unless it’s a bike? It’s a bike isnt it? Ooohoohoh, it’s a bike!!!" The Jim Noir limerick competition winner  | | Jim Noir - Tower Of Love |
To celebrate the release of Tower Of Love, we decided to give away a pair of tickets to Jim’s debut show and signed pink vinyl version of the album to the person who put together the best limerick about Mr Noir. That person was Craig Edmondson and here is his limerick... There was a young man called Jim
Who started out writing a hymn
His talent was slacking
Ideas were lacking
But he knew that that hymn lay within So Jim he did wander through town
Dressed like a modern day clown
Sat on a bench
By a mancunian wench
And started to write some words down. Jim's heart it slowly poured out
And scattered some lyrics about
He put on his glove
Wrote tower of love
And that was the end of that! | 
