Finally, the big Guardian interview I hoped for in May has come in July.
The band reflected on their career with Dorian Lynskey in the UK-based paper.
Here are some choice cuts:
Roddy Bottum:
“I think we accomplished what we need to accomplish. If we all died today I think we would have done a good job.”
“Doing what we’re doing now makes all of that work we did then a lot more validating,” Gould agrees. “We came back and we made it better. If that’s the only lesson we learned, that’s a good lesson.”
Good calls on the set list here. Last night was a long and strong one but looks like they are sticking to a 25-song repertoire to dip in and out of.
benrun, I support your choices. I am hoping for Chinese Arithmetic, As the Worm Turns and the Crab Song myself as I have never seen those performances in person. Yes to Rise of the Fall and Cone of Shame from SI. I’ve seen them play KFAD the song at all the shows I have been to, so I’m hoping they choose other songs. Also, I would rather they skip Ashes to Ashes and Easy and Joke… This Town Aint Big Enough would be awesome. Greedy fan, here, too!
Im hoping for some special sets during the next leg since we haven’t seen them in the south since the 90s. I’ll be in ATL on Thursday.
Next leg about to begin…I’m not going to be able to go to any shows, but I hope they play Rise of the Fall and Cone of Shame more often…maybe some of the other songs that didn’t make the album. For NY and Philly, since those cities will likely be people who saw them before already, it would be cool if they did an album specific encore like the did for WCAL in London 2012…this time either IY (this line up has done IY, Chinese, Death March, Crab Song, WCAL, and Spirit…so 2 of those plus Faster Disco and Anne’s Song – which I know Patton won’t do, so instead do RNR) or TRT (the only songs this line up haven’t done are Underwater Love, War Pigs, and the best The Morning After). Of course AOTY in it’s entirety and adding in This Town and The Big Kahuna would also be cool. I know, I’m a greedy fan.
Your welcome. My guess is they didn’t sell enough for the stadium. Didn’t they just play in New York not that long ago? I know other, much smaller venues on the tour have sold out.
Bobby, thx for your post! I did not know FNM canceled the MSG show and moved it to the Theater at MSG. Luckily, I was able to get new tix for the show. I planned a whole fucking flight from Florida just to see these guys, so you saved my ass. I can’t believe they canceled at MSG! What the fuck happened?!! Thank God for this website or I would have been totally screwed!!
Good interviews. Did something happen with the MSG show…change of venue or ticket refunds or something?
Thanks Admin for posting these great new FNM interviews. It sounds like the fellas are open to a new album with Mike P touting the unrecorded Sol Invictus songs. Roddy said he hopes the next album is all new material, but hell, they wrote a lot of songs for 2.5 years, many of which were unrecorded. It ain’t easy to compose new material.
I remember back in 1992, I was starving for press on FNM. I was in Long Island and read a Mike P interview in a music paper. It said he was in Germany, wearing greasy lederhosen, drinking a Snakebite, saying, “we’re raging, we’re on fire!” That, to me, is the spirit of this band: dark, abrasive and twisted. Can’t wait to see what they cook up next.