To all the haters - these guys still make their interviewers squirm in the presence of their combined raw intelligence and humility - they're a success by their own measure - they are their own experience!!
It's rude and points to hidden agendas of a person if you wear sunglasses indoors and also whilst talking to people up close. It's human respect to be eye to eye in a conversation. Speaks volumes of nicky
Salty, ideologising complains aside; it's nice and rather heart-warming to see James and Nick enjoying their legacy and unanimous public acceptance. Very few people could make music that's both emotionally and sociopolitically aware for as long as they have without becoming a pigeonholed act, relevant only and exclusively for what they did back during a long gone era - not to mention their artistic merits: Nick is a superbly versatile lyricist and James is an all-around virtuous musician, perhaps one of the most technically talented in British mainstream music for the past three decades. Art isn't just a platform for political vindication, but a very experientially demanding profession as well. The album's title and lyrics are quite explicit in that respect, forgiveness is all over them, both intimately and interpersonally. They deserve to enjoy what they've achieved, just let them be to their maturity.
Like all great artists, they’re out of place, out of time, uncomfortable everywhere, making others uncomfortable, upsetting us all, moving us all, saying things we don’t really understand but think might be true, lifting us all up, making us challenge our preconceptions, lifting us all. Gifted gifted people.
I met him purely by chance at a mobile burger bar at a red hot chili peppers gig in the side concourse at Wembley arena, I dropped my change and this guy helped me pick it up and turned out it was James Dean bradfield. We talked about John frusciante and the rip off price of chicken nuggets, he was pretty normal for a rock god.
How can they not be proud of Lifeblood?? Empty souls? 1985? The Love Of Richard Nixon?? That is some INCREDIBLE musical writing, if anything Send away the tigers was "meh" (Except Patsy and Indian Summer)
generation terrorist will allways be my favorite album . motorcycle emptiness will allays be my favorite song . . diidn t one of the drummers disappear from the sefton bridge in 1993 ?
Richie edwards in my opinion and a humble 1 at that is 1 of the very best songwriters of a generation …. My hero that man is . I’m due to have a Tatto of him very soon .
Ric Bonnici Of course. That's the game. Label advances you the money to cut an album, and you need to promote it by agreeing to do the interviews were they usually ask the same questions over and over again. Small price to pay imho. I'll trade em, he he he.
Yeah they would have been, and they themselves have said that too. They know themselves very well and are okay with not being like in their 20s anymore because they know people change and grow. You shouldn't sound so grossed out about that tbh.
