Former frontman of The View Kyle Falconer has revealed the title of his new solo album is a joke to tease his fiancee.
The Dundee -based singer-songwriter, whose hits with the indie rock band include Same Jeans, said partner Laura Wilde would tease him about the songs he had written about other girls but never about her.
So he called his second solo album No Love Songs For Laura.
Kyle, 34, said: “The album is called No Love Songs For Laura because she kept saying, ‘Who’s this Lucy that you are singing about? Who are all these girls?’
“She kept saying, ‘There’s still no love songs for me.’ And I was like, ‘That’s a good title.’
“Now it’s a bit of an in-joke between Laura and I that every time we listen to the mixes in the car together that these were not love songs for her but more just a soundtrack to the life we’ve made for ourselves.”
Kyle has two daughters with Laura – Wylde, four, and Winnie, two – and last week revealed they have a third child on they way.
The making of his new album, which is released in July, has been very much a family affair.
His fiancee hasn’t just inspired the album name, he has called a song Laura and she appears on the album cover, posing alongside Kyle but with her back to the camera.
Kyle’s niece Daisy even taught him to dance for a video he made for one of the album’s first tracks to be released, Wait Around.
Kyle said: “I wanted to do something that was challenging so I asked my niece, Daisy Falconer, who is a dance instructor, to teach me how to dance, which was one of the hardest things I have had to do.
"The song is about helping someone with depression and letting them know I’ll do anything for them and I’ll always be there for them so I really wanted to push the boat.
“I had a ball making it. It turns out I can’t dance but I gave it a go.”
Kyle founded The View with friends while they were all pupils at St John’s RC High School in Dundee.
Their debut album, Hats Off To The Buskers, topped the charts in January 2007 and went on to be nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.
The band became famous for their rock‘n’roll antics, including Kyle being convicted for possession of cocaine and being involved in an air rage incident.
The View split after 10 years of success but haven’t ruled out a reunion.
Kyle said: “We are still mates – kind of. It was a classic rock‘n’roll break-up. It’s a cliche but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
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