Anything that can help has got to be a good thing. Other products get help (in being marketed overseas) by the Department of Trade and Industry, so why not music? |
He was like 'We're well made up for you being nominated, we're really pleased for you. But if you win it, we're going to kill you'. |
I was very conscious that you don't get many opportunities in life and we had an opportunity, |
It's just close enough to the city but no-one ever goes there, |
It's totally alien for us to be at something like the Mercury's. We’d have frittered the money away and given some to our producer. He made our album for love; it was never about anything else. |
No, it's this decade, the one we're living in. It's the only thing that can influence you. |
Ricky came up to me and he was really sweet, |
The bus is a little fuzzy today. Our guitarist just walked in looking like death warmed over. |
The look in his eyes said it all. |
There's towns just like ours in America. I think what we say is quite universal. |
This is for everyone who's had their heart broken by a fucking waste of space. |
We feel like outsiders so if they want to rank us as outsiders then that suits us fine, |
We made it on a cheap PC that couldn't get enough power and kept crashing. We'd borrow microphones, cords and pieces, and we made our own kind of soundproofing. That's what I mean about trying to be great with what you've got. ... It gives you a sound that no one else has got because no one else is doing it in that room. It's like the great Stones records where you hear Charlie Watts miss a beat or you hear Mick in the background encouraging the backing singers. It's amazing. |
We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut. |
We'll be back in June and plan to make up for it. |