Single Archives - Mick White

Sometime Superman

Sometime Superman is the second single from Mick White and is again taken from the forthcoming album Something’s Got To Give. The single is the follow up to Emergency On Planet Earth released in October 2021 which has received extensive airplay throughout the world and to date is approaching twenty thousand streams on Spotify alone.

The song is a dark, brooding rock track which deals with the issues of mental health which so many people have had to come to terms with over the past couple of years. The song was written during the first lockdown and is very much about the battle that goes on between the positive and negative within us all which became far more apparent during these difficult times.

Sometime Superman is written by Mick White and guitarist Luke Hatton (who also played bass) with drums from Carsten Enghardt (who also mixed and mastered the song alongside Ulrich Hilbel). All the vocals, guitars and bass tracks were recorded in the UK with drums being added at 1st take Studios in Bavaria where it was also mixed during the first few months of 2021.

A video will be released simultaneously alongside the single with long time collaborator James Ross Heron from Carriage Return Media Services once again directing and editing. The body of the video is performance based with bass player Ian Edwards joining the band but White also plays the darker alter ego character which is interspersed throughout.

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Emergency On Planet Earth

Emergency On Planet Earth is the debut solo single from Mick White and was written by White alongside guitarist Luke Hatton. The whole idea of a solo record came together in 2019 as a side project to other musical ventures but as we went into lockdown early in 2020 writing & recording stepped up and a full album was completed.

Emergency On Planet Earth is quite obviously a statement on the current global situation but without being preachy it’s more about the hopeless state we find ourselves in and is written very much from the perspective of a father who wants the world to be better for his child in the future. It’s written with the background of a massive shift in climate events, the last year of the Trump administration and of course the world pandemic and is basically a rally cry to people and leaders alike saying ‘we can be better than this, why are we fucking the planet up?’

Musically it’s an intricate and yet straight ahead hard rock track brilliantly performed by Luke Hatton (who also played bass) and drummer Carsten Enghardt (who also mixed and mastered the song alongside Ulrich Hilbel). All the vocals, guitars and bass tracks were recorded in the UK with drums being added at 1st take studios in Bavaria where it was also mixed during the first few months of 2021.

The accompanying video filmed and produced by James Ross Heron from Carriage Return Media Services sees White portraying a corporate bad guy alongside his performance of the song with Hatton and Enghardt. It also features White’s son Jake playing his younger self as the character reflects on the terrible person he has become.