Find Out Where Our Love Grows!
How has your relationship changed over the years?
Andy: You feel like it should change, because you've worked together so long, but I think it's like the Seinfeld theory- Never learn, never grow. It seems to work.
Corrine: We seems to operate telepathically now, when we first started working together we didn't know each other so well and we didn't speak to each other too much because we were shy, now we don't speak to each other so much because we kind of know.
In terms of song writing how does that work?
C: You develop a knowledge of each other's musical do's and don't and likes and dislikes, it's less contradictory maybe, maybe, that's a dangerous thing. Maybe that's why with this album we worked with our producer Paul Stawvely O'Duffy , because it helps sometimes to have someone throw a cat among the pigeons, we probably flow quite well together because we know what we like and what our similarities are, as you develop a relationship with someone, you glide along, you want to keep things smooth, but you do need that abrasiveness sometimes.
That abrasiveness; is that what Paul has brought in?
A: Yes, he brings that to everything, it's his particular gift! (Joke) It's an odd thing though, because you can't help but do that, when we started it was very defined, I think the thing that has changed is that the walls have come down a bit. Corrine wrote the lyrics, I did the music and Paul was the producer, it never really works, you start off like that, then it gradually becomes an amalgam: everyone chips in with things; you relax the idea of everyone having a specific role. It's like people in conversations, you start off and "I'm this" and by the end it hopefully you're all one big mess.
The album ‘Where Our love Grows’ is very happy and summery – what is the origin of that vibe?
A: People always think that we must be like that, if you hear something that has a bit of joy in it, then you must be jolly all the time wandering around juggling with a clown outfit. To me it's entirely obvious that it's the opposite: We would be in north Manchester in the rain writing these things that sound like they're from the south of France, the whole point was that it's not where you live, but where you want to live, where, in your mind, where you want to be. So we always escaping, which at the time in Manchester was an interesting place to be as people were always escaping into darkness and we were: "It's sunny over there". I think you just do the opposite of what you naturally are: Rock bands are always from public school, because they want to escape that and go and be prince of darkness for a while, we're alright for darkness. |
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