Trading places
It sounds like an existential talking point. What would happen if folk mavericks Kíla and sunshine boys The Thrills remixed each other’s work?
Peter Murphy, 16 Aug 2007
Daniel: The worst time was when we went down to Osaka and the translator for the interview seemed to have zero English. And you’d give quite a long answer, and say if you mentioned Blur or Morrissey, you wouldn’t hear any of the names mentioned in the translation!
Brian: Did you have to do all the autograph signing at the end? We had a table lined up, and Jean Butler was dancing with us, and we were doing autographs, and they made sure everyone was there, no ducking away. And then we looked up and I think everyone from the audience was in a queue. Everyone. We were there for about an hour.
Daniel: How was Jean Butler with you?
Brian: She was great, we’d known her for a couple of years, basically we picked some sections from songs and she worked out a piece.
Rónán: Technically it was dead awkward. Soundchecks took forever: mikes under her shoes and mikes under the board, compared to the volume we were playing at. She could only go up so high and loads of frequencies had to be taken out of her shoes ’cos she’d just feedback. A lot of times we had to change tunes or just play quieter.
How do you deal with the kind of difficulties involved in existing at close quarters with bandmates?
Daniel: I don’t know what it’s like in Kíla, but if you’re in The Thrills you have to get used to being told to fuck off and not hold grudges.
Brian: Well, we’ve got two sets of brothers and two extras and a soundman. One tour manager said to me in America that looking after a band is like herding chickens. There’s a bubble of unreality around a band, and people would space off if they’re allowed space off sometimes, it’s kind of like a retarded way of doing things, and that’s why you have to gather everyone. So, in closed confined spaces, tensions build up and you have to learn how to defuse them and not go too far. It’s a diplomatic thing.
Rónán: If you go too far often enough, when you hit that argument again, you realise, “Aw yeah, this is the one that goes all the way there and we don’t talk for five years. We’ve done that one, so let’s try a different tack.” If you stick it out you just learn to accept each other.
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