I don’t know - by the time we’ve made a record, you never want to hear it again. Just a different perspective on them, and enjoy it somehow. What are you hoping fans will take from the album? It’s just kind of like “eh, okay, whatever.” You don’t get a chance to clash, you don’t ever get that option.
#NEW MOON STRINGS THEORY MAC#
Mac would probably turn it completely the opposite end, different idea about the whole thing.ĭid you two ever clash when you were working on the record? Yeah, I think it’s more like that kind of record - stick it on your hi-fi and tune out - for me anyways. You had said the album is more something to sit and listen to. It’s like, “the strings are there, they’ve got to be able to hear everything.” We’re not doing the “strings” thing, we’re not bringing in that at all. So for the most part, a fan that goes to your show won’t notice much that’s different. There’s a little bit peppered through here and there, but there’s still plenty of the old stuff. There’s a new intro to - which was one is it? could be “Rust” - with a neat little piano intro thing. We’re playing “The Somnambulist” live, and “Bedbugs” is a bit like the new version, the drums and the bass are different. Which of the two new songs are you going to play? It would probably be some sort of weird reggae thing anyway. If I go to see The Rolling Stones, I don’t want to hear the latest fokken’ album or soundtrack, I want to hear “Gimme Shelter” and “Sympathy For The Devil.” Do you know what I mean?Įspecially with the example of The Rolling Stones, that’d be very disappointing. I’m a music fan so that’s what I’d want to do. I know when I go and see a band, I don’t want to hear them play the new album, I want to hear them play the classics. I just think that’d be a bit too much for the fans. We’d always say that when we did an album, we wouldn’t go out and play all of the new album, we’d play one or two new tracks off it. We’ve been doing the new ones - well one of them, anyway. It’s like a pool of songs we play live, the same sort of stuff that we always do. There really isn’t a great deal of from year to year. We’ve got certain ones that we play live every single set. Live it’s a bit too mellow for me, you know?įor the tour, how did you pick what to play? Or is it just a “greatest hits” deal? That’s more an album to sit down and listen to, that sort of thing. We’re talking about a live situation here - I thought it would be better the old fashioned way, myself. There’s little things, like sort of combinations of some of the new bits, but it’s not a great deal, it’s mainly the old style stuff. Yeah, I think “Bedbugs” is kind of like the new version. Why not? We’re always looking for new things, I suppose.Īre you playing any songs as they appear on the album at your live shows? You’re the first people in your music domain to do that, then.Įh, we thought it was an interesting idea, but it was brought to us by the label. Do you know what I mean? I like a few new bands, like The Black Angels and people like that, but it’s mainly ’60s stuff that I like, so I don’t really come across anybody doing that. I collect old music, I don’t really go into new music.
The Flaming Lips did that whole Dark Side of the Moon, didn’t they? But that’s a different story.
I just offered them up to see what happens… I’ve got about 50.ĭo you have any other favorite reimagined records from other bands?Įrm - no. Will Sergeant: They originated here in my little studio, I came up with them and they got changed quite a bit.
Victoria Wasylak: What can you tell us about the two new songs that you chose to put on the album? That’s the way the Bunnymen (still) bumble. While on the phone with Vanyaland earlier this month, he broke down the euphoria of playing live 40 years later, from stream of consciousness improv to new glistening guitar tangents onstage. Following a quick stint in the states earlier this year, the British post-punk group have returned to our turf, this time playing Massachusetts twice: tonight (November 19) at the Calvin Theatre & Performing Arts Center in Northampton, and Tuesday night (November 20) at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre.Īlthough he namely credits lead singer Ian McCulloch (who he quasi-affectionately calls “Mac” throughout our chat) with many of the major decisions for the record, he describes their live operation as more of a freeform cooperative.
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