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every song> No one’s got a massive ego —
if an idea gets bent out of shape, we’ll just
start from scratch. That’s how it works.
IE: Your sound can go anywhere now.
LG: Yeah, anything IS possible now. But
I’m not a nerd about recording — if it
sounds good, we’ll do it and move on. But
I like making the type of music I loved as a
kid, so I don’t think I’ll ever do anything
too left field. I can sing on anything, and
it’ll still sound like me, d’ya know what I
mean?
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IE: When you opened for The Who a few
weeks ago, and people kept going out to
get drinks during your set, you reported-
ly got a little testy onstage.
LG: I’m not doing this to gain any more
fans — I’m here because I wanted to be. I
knew I wasn’t going to make any money
— I’m just here to sell my record. So I’m
IE: Even going back to your early song-
writing experiments like “Songbird,”
there’s more in you that’s been tapped
yet.
LG: Yeah, there is. But I’m quite happy col-
laborating — I think we get a lot more
done. If they let me just sit there and write
a load of songs on my own, I’d still be
doing it, because I’m too self-conscious
about it, about the words and what I want
to say. I want to make some albums and get
out there on tour. And working with other
people, they can say, “Look — it sounds
good. Let’s move on.”
IE: Thematically, what did you find your-
self writing about on this new record?
Obviously, you avoided Brexit.
LG: Yeah. I’m not a politically-driven man.
I keep getting asked about all that shit, and
I just don’t have much to say. I don’t know
what all we were writing about — love,
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here to do a few tunes because I love The
Who and I love Pete Townshend, and I
love Roger Daltrey, so it was a bit of a hol-
iday because I was bringing my kids over.
So if people are eating food or whatever…a
lot of people keep turning up, and if
they're sitting there with food in their
mouths, it doesn’t bother me. Even if no
one turns up, it doesn’t matter, because I’m
having a ball out there. So I’m not here for
promotion — I’m here just to have a crack
at it.
IE: Did you get to hang with The Who?
LG: I’ve met ‘em before — we’d done
some gigs for the Teenage Cancer Trust in
London. But I didn’t get to really speak to
‘em that much. I mean, they’re on another
level, The Who, I’m just a singer in a band
— I don’t classify myself as a songwriter or
a musician. I’m just a singer, so we don’t
get into any of the deep stuff. But I like
them, and they seem to like me.
life, hate, everything. I’ve certainly got no
time to be writing about Boris fucking
Johnson. Or Theresa May.
IE: But you do have a lot of opinions. You
were back in the news getting into it with
Suede’s Brett Anderson, who was dismis-
sive of the whole Britpop movement.
LG: What I’m saying is, I think he’s wrong,
but I never paid too much attention to him
— we were on another level, and all that
shit was going on around us. But we were
going in a different direction. We were
more classic; d’ya know what I mean?
With Britpop, there were lots and lots of
music, lots of bands, and some nice songs.
And some good bands, too. But the whole
fucking scene was just a load of fucking
idiots in fucking Camden, as far as I’m
concerned. Menswear. Where are they
today? All them fucking city bands. There
were some good tunes, and some solitary
decent bands. But there was no real fuck-
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