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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

Within music, even if you’re in the middle of a row, there’s something that goes on. When the gig starts, if you’re playing the same song, you’re in communication, even if you don’t talk. How do I explain it? If someone drops a beat, there’s no time to talk about it, you have to cover his ass anyway. You’re in motion. Everyone’s attached by an invisible cord, so even if you want to turn around and shoot them afterwards, everyone has to do it. There’s a sort of interdependence that can’t really be broken unless someone throws a strop and walks, and that happens, but generally you have to get to the other side, working with each other.

Daniel: We did a tour with The Pixies. They don’t really talk.

Brian: You can see it, though. That’s a shame.

Conor: But there’s something quite refreshingly honest about it. They said at the start of the tour, “We’re together for the money.” Like, they never made that much money, you talk to the drummer David, he’ll tell stories about being beyond down and out.

Daniel: He was queueing up to get a personal loan.

Conor: And Charles calls him up and says: “Arenas.” And they come onstage and play all the songs people want to hear, the only nod they do to showmanship is they walk to the front of the stage and people scream at them for three minutes. And it’s quite workmanlike, but it’s still amazing.

Would Kíla ever consider doing a documentary film?

Rónán: Lance is pushing for that in a big way. He’s got great ideas about films. I come up with all the daftest ideas to make sure it’s humourous.

Brian: There’s a DVD coming out of a concert from last Christmas at Vicar Street, and over the years we have done various bits of film.

Rónán: It just hasn’t morphed into a big documentary. We’re still talking about how to do something about that.

Brian: We’re thinking of Gaelic porn. With subtitles!

Did The Thrills eventually become immune to the cameras, or were they a constant pain in the butt?



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