sprintsprint Joined: Apr 21, 2008 Posts: 3099 Location: FI | Tired Pony Interview Snow Patrol singer and guitarist REM: human as well as musically a great combination.
A new supergroup? Or just friendly artists who play music together out of pure joy? Tired Pony are in the forefront of Gary Lightbody (34), lead singer of Snow Patrol, and Peter Buck (53), of his sign-REM guitarist. Together with colleagues of Belle & Sebastian, among other things, they have received in a week or a quiet album, “The Place We Ran From”. In a discussion to give the two, only in old age are quite different between men very modest, but still talkative. “You talk about football again?” Asked Buck, as he and floral shirt and jacket enters the room. Lightbody, the fidgety, lanky front mannn is, Ire. And for an interview time at the World Cup is still on everyone’s lips, you can lose about once a word. Before one is the favorite topic of Buck and Lightbody turns – the music.
tele look: Ireland is a fairly small fish in world football, but has many sympathies. If only the French who have cheated with Thierry Henry’s handball at the World Cup participants?
Gary Lightbody: Henry now is certainly not the most welcomed guest. But the team has such extreme supporters. It’s always about the party, no matter whether you lose or win, and that is indeed the spirit of a World Cup. Football is the only field where national pride is fine. If I was halfway in a position, I would cover a jersey and start running …
Polarbear. Now comes Tired Pony. You probably in a few years from a private zoo bands.
Lightbody (grinning): That is my mission. I’m working my own Fantasiezoo. But actually, the expression Tired Pony mean nothing, I have a bit herumgekritzelt in my notebook, written down the name and do not know why.
tele look: Why did you not long after the Snow Patrol tour also made a break like your band mates?
Lightbody: The others have time off earlier this year, and I did not want to stop making music.
tele look: Because you can hold still so bad?
Lightbody: Yes, I can but I would not. If there would be something for which I would like to make a break, I would do so. But there is nothing, I have no child, to which I would like – so I make as much music as possible is. Therefore, it was the perfect time for the Tired Pony recordings.
tele look: Is the project a great playground for all of you?
Lightbody: It is mainly a project more. That was only until I thought about it. When we went into the studio together, Tired Pony was immediately on the first day of the band.
Peter Buck: With people who can improvise … I really did feel like it. For me it was exciting to have only eight days left for an album. This type of work, I know not with REM. It had nothing to dazugefügt, no second single – great!
tele look: It was so beautiful, sometimes not so have to be perfect?
Buck: perfectionism was never a goal for me. I think it’s silly, but to strive band. Music means more to have a freedom that we in real life is not private to me. So, I do not let anything stand and lie and get out times just after one week from Tahiti. I have a life. Even with REM I’m the one who keeps everything loose. I am a fast worker, and I guess that’s why I was also hired here.
tele look: Is that right, Gary?
Lightbody: Well, if I want to make music, Peter Buck is at any time at the top of the list. All the Tired Pony history was as if I could put together my dream football team. Peter seemed very unrealistic. That could go wrong, but it’s fantastic that it worked from the moment when we sat together in Portland. We knew we just want to play some gigs, and so it was a relaxed, very liberating affair.
tele look: That is, there are at Snow Patrol restrictions that do not you taste Sun
Lightbody: Oh, constraints, I would not call. I take the job just as a musician very seriously, in the case of Snow Patrol too seriously. And I think by Tired Pony I recalled that one band you should not cause any sleepless nights, but can let you sleep well. It now refers not only to my restlessness. Peter also has difficulty sleeping, which is probably attributable to the whole of this irregular rhythm. During life on the road you can never rest, I can not keep my rhythm, and so I think my nerves are sometimes bare.
tele look: But would not it more important to find a more relaxed access to your main job?
Lightbody: It would be quite safe, but I have not yet found him. I’m really not very good at relaxing me.
tele look: Okay, Peter, to compensate: What are you not good?
Buck: I’m not one who wants a lot of other people. I have three friends with whom I meet, more is not.
tele look: What happens when Pony Tired unexpectedly successful and goes through the roof?
Lightbody: Then I’ll buy me a swimming pool. But I do not think that is realistic. And this should indeed not happen.
Buck: The success is to have made this album – so it was with REM We started small, we thought that we do not need a bikini girls in our videos. I was beginning to honestly believe that we are making great music. And so we have slowly increased with each album sold a little bit more. Now I am indeed a bit older, but I can imagine that this will be the same with Tired Pony. Each album is a bit larger. So I imagine it before in the ideal case.
tele look: What the contents of this time to the dark side of USA.
Lightbody: Yes, especially at the prejudice. The things one thinks about the U.S. as a child. The time now is only the first step, certainly there are a thousand things more to say about this country. I think it is certainly fascinating, sometimes not even revolve around me.
tele look: What have you thought before about the country?
Lightbody: At 20, you want to run away from the past and create a new future. The Irish idyll of Bangor has not inspired me, as I grew up. The U.S. at that time were really important to me, at least in my head. At that time I would like to cut down there. But now I’m back in my old dump, because I would like to be with my family. When I was away, I wanted to go back.
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