Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Short interview with Brian: My favourite shit

Today I want to share a short interview with Brian that was printed in Kerrang magazine in 2009. He talks about some of his “favourite shit”. Enjoy reading!

Photo credit: Laetizia Forget


♦𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝙈𝙊𝙇𝙆𝙊: 𝙈𝙔 𝙁𝘼𝙑𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙀 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙏♦

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗟
”I think a tour bus is a rather excellent way to travel. We did a great deal of van touring very early on in our career, which I think makes us appreciate being able to travel on buses a lot more.”

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥
”David Lynch, his films are very close to my heart. I kinda grew up watching his films, and I love the sense of foreboding and the brutality that runs through his work at the same time as the extreme beauty of it. I've liked his more recent stuff too, Inland Empire was more like an abstract painting, but I liked that.”

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗘
”That I'm short. I'm actually 6'4”. It comes up all the time, but that's only because Stefan [Olsdal, bass/guitar] is 10'8”...”

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥
”Flying away to the sun, that's the only thing I like about it. I try to be on tour as much as possible at that time of year, and hitting Australia around then is always a good plan. I'm getting older, so my bones are getting more porous, which happens to everybody, but that means I feel the cold a lot more now.”

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
”Angkor Wat in Cambodia is one of the most spiritual and beautiful places that I've ever been to.”

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘
”Paris. I have a special affinity for that city and everything in it. I feel very much at home when I go there.”

𝗠𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟-𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗟 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣
”The Raincoats. I just really like their classic debut album [The Raincoates, 1979], it's from the punk era and it's kind of shambolic but I really like that.”

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