出身愛丁堡的蘇格蘭新團Ballboy
被喻為Belle&Sebastian + Wedding Present ?!
發行新EP"I Hate Scotland"..不過還沒聽過..以下也是訪談,這篇沒什麼參考價值
(只是蠻難得找到這篇..)無聊的話再看吧..
Q: Is 'i hate Scotland' anti-Scottish?
B: 'i hate scotland' is obviously not an anti-Scottish song, although
it does address many of the things which I think prevent Scotland
from becoming a more forward thinking nation. The central theme of
the song is personal freedom versus social responsibility and I
think that in Scotland we often have an in-built inability to allow
ourselves to treat people how we would really like to. There is, in
a sense, a culture of failure, of underachieving. But, at the same
time, there are some wonderful and inventive things which break free
from this - and those are what make living in Scotland interesting
and worthwhile. I think I would just like Scotland to have broader
horizons. We need to move away from the half-arsed rantings of Alex
Salmond and his cartoon nationalism towards a more thoughtful way of
interacting with each other.
Q: You have a song called 'Sex is Boring'. Is sex with you boring?
B: Aye - sometimes.
Q: Are your song titles deliberately controversial?
B: No, they're deliberately interesting. That might sound a bit wanky,
but I don't see the point in spending time on a song just to give it
a boring title. I see the titling of songs as a wee reward for having
finished them.
Q: On 'silversuitsforastronauts' you begin the song 'dumper truck racing'
with the line, 'it's time to start a new world order' is it?
B: That's not a political song. The line refers to sorting out your own
life and making sure that you have your priorities right. The rest of
the song is about friendship and hope and love and confidence.
Q: And do you have your priorities right now?
B: Getting there, I think, at last.
Q: You have been regularly compared to other Scottish bands such as
Belle and Sebastian and Arab Strap - does this please you or not?
B: Whilst it's always nice to be compared to bands who are admired and
admirable and whilst I understand the need for journalists to make
comparisons, I think that the comparisons made are lazy in the extreme
and are based on the fact that we're Scottish rather than anything else.
To be honest the whole thing annoys me more than it should.
Q: What has been the highlight of your musical career so far?
B: Coming off stage in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh after winning
a battle of the band competition thing to be told by Edward - who runs
SL records - that he had enough money to finally release our first EP.
Either that or the recording of the Peel Session earlier this year. Or
perhaps hearing John Peel play us and say how good our song was. Or
perhaps ... etc ... etc ...
Q: Do you listen to your own songs when you're at home?
B: Absolutely, I like our songs.
Q: Do you have a favourite ballboy song?
B: It changes all the time, but at the moment it's a song called 'Swim for
Health' which I wrote when I was unusually low and it helped to get
things out of my system and stop me becoming a miserable bastard.
Q: What does the future hold for ballboy?
B: Basically just getting stronger and stronger, I think, until someone with
money gives us some so that we can do this full-time. I used to think I'd
like to sign to a record company who had some integrity and cared about
the band, but they don't exist. Well they do exist, but they don't have
big piles of money.
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