S: I remember you commenting in a recent issue of Select
that you had no desire to begin writing songs.
R: Yeah, I think that was actually I was probably making a joke.
Like everyone's been saying to me: "You've got to write songs...
You've got to write them better than Bernard..." And so when I was doing an
interview I just thought: "Well I'm going to tell them I'm not going to do it,
and see if they print it. But no, I didn't mean that. Of course I'm going to
write songs. If you play an instrument, you write songs. It's natural.
S: So when did you come up with Together?
R: Actually it was a tune I had knocking around in my head - a chord sequence,
not a tune (Brett does the tunes, I do the chords). A chord sequence
I had knocking around in my head for quite a long time, since I first joined.
I used to strum to myself. And it just came to the New Generation single -
they didn't have any more b sides, any Anderson / Butler stuff, so it was
basically a case of saying: "Well we've got to write a song, we've got like
five days in the studio, what are we going to do?" I had one song worked out -
Bentswood Boys. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted for that.
With Together, I just came in and wrote all the chords down and said,
"Can we play this please?" Simon put this really attitude drum beat on it -
a real kind of drummer's rock out song. Mat put a bassline down -
he writes basslines that involve a lot of 7s and things, which make it sound
quite trashy and glammy and sexy, in a way. And then Brett did this ditty
over the top - "We should get together..." And it became this kind of like
stomping, rock song; we thought it was brilliant. But that was completely
spontaneous; I had no idea what it was going to sound like. I sort
of knew what Bentswood Boys was going to sound like. But Together
I had no idea. And that shows that, between the four of us... there's a s
pontaneity that perhaps wasn't there before. Before it was very planned.
I've been told how it was like. Brett would be sent a demo by Bernard,
and Brett would write a tune over it, and they'd come into the studio
and recording would be basically a number of steps to get an idea that
both Brett and Bernard had. For us, now, we've got a vague idea of
the beginning, and recording is just like stepping out into the unknown;
we've got no idea what's going to happen in the end, but it's usually good.
We're not going to rely on spontaneity, but it's nice to have that element,
it shows that we can do it. If you shoved us in front of some cameras and
said, "Write a song!" then, within about a half hour we'd have one.
We're all bristling with ideas...
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