![]() I don’t walk around places like the peacock I might have seemed to have been in the past when I was permanently dressed up on tour, when basically all I had was stage-wear and wasn’t acting natural or blending in.Ī quick word association. I’m quite good with languages, so I can act natural and blend in. ![]() When in Madrid, I do like to go to the Prado, which is a bit rococo for my taste – I’m more a fan of your Soviet sculpture park, to be honest but I also like to hang out in bars or a café pavement. It’s not often but I like to go high and low. Apparently there is a film called that: Shitting Teenagers.ĭo you get out of the sealed world of touring into the real world much? You’ve referred to the bus as being like a submarine. I know someone who does merchandise who went out with a heavy metal band that watched nothing but shitting teenagers on the video for the whole tour. It makes Twin Town an even better film than it already is. In the old days, everybody would have to gather round one of the two televisions and have to watch the same films, which is a lovely bonding experience. Everybody has their own entertainment devices on their person. And there’s less interaction with everybody these days too. But on a big Nightliner bus, there’s always somewhere to hide, if you need to. If we were still touring in a van, that would most definitely be the case. It’s nice for a while to have a regulated lifestyle: get fed, be told where to go, have your shopping done for you.ĭon’t you miss the extreme privacy of your non-touring life? You once described yourself as a “hermit”? The routine of touring can be both monotonous and irritating … Any circumstances when you think a Sisters track could really do with some of that? We think to ourselves, “This goes well with that and that goes well with this.” It’s not like I have a finished lyric and say, “Score this!”ĭylan plays the harmonium. They have access to my lyrical sketchbooks, just as I have access to their guitar doodling, or keyboard doodling. Obviously, they like the music they write better, which is perfectly natural. How are your lyrics interacting with the music Ben (Christo) and Dylan (Smith) are writing?įirstly, the music is not all Ben and Dylan. Tell me about the evolution of one of these new Christo/Eldritch/Smith songs. Not quite, but she loved Ofra Haza and compared your singing to Devo. There’s reaction video of a US-based vocal coach giving her views on the 1992 version of Temple of Love with Ofra Haza.ĭid she say one of those people can really sing and is amazing and the other is a waste of space? Only in so far as unfavourable criticism hinders ticket sales which hinders one’s financial independence, which hinders one’s creative independence. And I’m happy to accept that verdict right now because it suits me.įundamentally, you don’t care what I think, do you? Any more than you care about people asking, “Where’s the bass player?” “Why don’t they sound like 1985 or 1990?” or similar schools of thought? We think it’s better but it’s up to you to judge and you seem to think it’s better. I think we were still good at it, offering good times.īut you admit that the current version of the band is better? It seems fair to say that the band was in an extended holding pattern for a number of years, recycling the back catalogue, dropping in the odd cover version. Whether I’m handwriting or not depends if I’m in front of a screen or not.īruce Robinson, the writer and director of Withnail & I once recalled being at his typewriter with red wine and ending the night typing with his nose… ![]() I’ve generally got an audio book burbling in the background, or a movie. What does songwriting look like now, more specifically lyric-writing: once upon a time it was on napkins in bars in Hamburg… You have to give people what they need and not what they want. It seemed to work well on those constituencies.Īny temptation to flip that ratio around for the Americans who have not seen you for a while? ![]() So America will be getting the set that evolved post-Covid on tour, ie predominantly very new material interspersed with the hits? I don’t think anybody was miserable before. Then the flow of new songs could easily dry up and things revert? If it’s a gift horse, it would seem daft to look it in the mouth. I’m not in the best position to judge, being so in the middle of it and hoping it doesn’t go away. ![]()
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