“The year is 2020 and this hotel has just been finished, a space hotel in orbit some 450 km above the surface of the earth”

So went the sample that I took from a BBC documentary back in 1998 and stuck on the intro of a song by my then ‘band’ OUTSIDER. The song was called ‘Cold Reception’, that is where the name Spacehotel comes from… mainly because after I’d been using ‘Outsider’ for a few years there were quite a few bands popping up with that, rather obvious, name.

Also, the idea of a Space Hotel (surely we’ll have one for real in the next 30 years? ;) ) appeals to me… especially as a place of retreat and solitude, a universal overview of the human race from a safe place… kind of like song writing I think.

Who the fuck would call themselves ‘Spacehotel’, especially with the two words glued together into nonsense? No one! Perfect. Job Done… now lets make some more music!

http://www.spacehotelmusic.com