It’s also slightly uh, slightly, it’s slightly worrying because a lot of the time that I spend is on doing things that are, um, more abstract I like music that’s more abstract and more complex. Was it a good feeling that he could create a proper album out of existing, old material? But when I play it at home, I have versions where I’m saying ‘crass souls’ - I’ve changed it into two words, yeah. I knew it was the right word to use for the song and I tried other versions of things but it was uh, Callum (Malcolm) – the engineer – when he heard the word, he said to me, he said: ‘you’ve got to use “assholes” you’ve got to say that… and I said “yeah” ‘.
(Cackles of kind laughter)… Yeah, yeah, it’s great, it’s great.
On the use of the word ‘ASSHOLE’ on “Crimson/Red” But that’s a, that’s a private writer’s kind of problem, you know? I should just be grateful that people like it. Maybe tougher, and maybe it’s the toughness that people like.’ So, so… It makes me doubt myself a little bit. But I’m looking at this particularly carefully, thinking ‘this is maybe harder than the things I’m working on. Because I start to think ‘ah, okay, I wonder what it is that they like about this so much?’ And then I have to go back to it and think ‘okay, all of the lyrics on it are pretty direct and they are very different from each other.’ And they are, um, quite, um… there are no bad lines I don’t think on the record, they are all quite, it’s all kind of quite strong… and concentrated whereas sometimes I am writing a song: I always think the lyrics are good if I’ve finished it. It does adjust my feelings about the things that I am working on. On the mixture between pressure and motivation Paddy receives from positive reviews It’s lovely… it’s… it’s wonderful that people are so keen for it… to enjoying it. So if someone tells me that they really, really (laughs) like the record, part of me thinks ‘I wonder if they’ll like what I’m doing now? I wonder if they’ll like the next…’ Which is madness. I… I never really know what to do with praise… because you then have to move on and do the next thing. And this is where I say the awkward thing. But I noticed that the reaction from a lot of people who came to see me,they were very pleased to see me, which is always a good thing that they were pleased to see me as opposed to looking away embarrassed as if I’d done something terrible. Interview Audio and Transcript are (C) Copyright 2013 Arnd Ziegler and are not to be reproduced in any form without his written permission. If you like this, during November I’ll be starting to publish a completely exclusive interview with Paddy from the same period, so look out for that. It helped that many of the interviewers were also huge fans of the work (I’d point particularly at the wonderful Rephertoire interview here) and so were able to probe slightly less beaten track areas and avoid the obvious “why are you called Prefab Sprout” sort of questions.įor listening convenience, I’ve joined the audio together into a continuous stream and included a transcript with the questions included. It’s a wonderful and wide ranging interview: indeed all of the 2013 interviews were hugely worthwhile, finding Paddy in a receptive and chatty frame of mind, and they each have their own character. Arnd (“Arnie”) Zeigler has in recent years been responsible for some definitive interviews with Paddy McAloon, two of which are hosted in the audio section of Sproutnet, which, I might add, is a wonderful place to poke around. Last year he visited County Durham for another since Sproutnet is no longer being actively updated it was never hosted there directly, so I’m making it available here with Arnie’s permission.
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