Check out the latest issue of "Q" magazine for an interview with Richard
James. Nothing really new there, but theres a few interesting bits. He
mentioned that some band he hasnt heard called "the Lemonheads" have
asked him to do some remixes and mentions that he's given up playing live
for the meanwhile, though he describes his recent US tour as "totally
brilliant."
Heres a few interesting sound-bites for your entertainment:
"This is gonna sound really weird but...well, I'm a lucid dreamer, you
see. I can control my dreams. I make tracks in my dreams. Sometimes I'm
in my own studio and sometimes in an imaginary studio and sometimes in my
real studio but with imaginary equipment. It used to be a real struggle
to remember the tunes when I woke up. But I'm training myself to do it. I
reckon I get about 70 percent of my stuff that way now."
"I dont enjoy making records. If I could, I'd stay in my studio for ever
and never come out and make music all of the time. But actually making
records and putting them out, I don't enjoy at all. Except doing the
artwork. But it's like doing this interview. No offense, but I have to do
interviews to sell the records I make so I can keep on making music.
It's a way of putting off getting a job. But apart from being on my own
making tracks, theres actually very little else I enjoy. Performing is so
embarassing."
then re: his new tank..
"I'm not actually insured yet, so I shouldn't be telling you this, but we
were in Cornwall and the video recorder broke so we had to go and get
another one and I thought, Oh, sod it, I'll take the tank. So I drove the
half-mile down the road and picked it up and then realised I couldn't turn
around. I was really struggling to do a three-point turn when I thougt,
Hang on, I'm in a tank. I can just knock the wall down If I want to!
There are people that owe me money and If they don't pay me, I'll just go
and drive it through their houses."
And finally, when asked what his next purchase might be...
"Hmm, well, a submarine would be nice."
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