NB : Yeah and Steve's a very quick learner, he's one of those musicians who can sit here and just say “OK, bom bom bom, yeah got that ! ”. So that's because you already knew Stephen that you manage to play different set lists every night ? We'll be happy to be doing some work together again in the future. And he will be back for sure but right now they're launching the BELLE & SEBASTIAN album, they have a show in Glasgow this weekend. NB : With David on bass for us that night. But Steve is great and we played a handful of shows last year and some of them were with Steve's current band, well he has several projects going, GROUP LISTENING, they played with us.
And Dave's personality is on the record to a certain extent and it's a real shame he couldn't do it. RMG : Yes, Dave's a good musician but luckily Steve's a good musician too. That's been really good, Steve's a great guy and really talented musician so it didn't take him long to slot in there. NB : But Stephen BLACK who's playing with us has already done it with us before and Dave's wife Laurie was having a baby so it wasn't as if it was something we hadn't worked with before. RMG : Then he was available and became unavailable again ! NB : Dave was unavailable to play these shows, or we thought he was going to be and then. RMG : They were doing promotional things to do with the album and stuff. He also plays for BELLE & SEBASTIAN and they had a tour booked before this had been booked, which they subsequently had to cancel but. NB : Y eah, Dave couldn't make it for this tour. You also had to replace Dave McGOWAN on the bass. We don't really talk about what they're going to do, we just set up together, present them the song, but after that we just start playing and usually we're not far away from it just by following the instinctive responses from everyone. He can play on the mellotron or an organ and we'll be “Yeah, it sounds great ! ”. He's going to come up with his own parts and he's also able to play with all the instruments we have set up. We have an idea of what the beat or the tempo or the arrangement is going to be like but we're not going to say “Euros can you play this little part ? ”. When we arrived in Hamburg to make the record, we all set up and it wasn't like we were trying to micromanage or direct everyone to play because everyone in the band knows what they're doing. RMG : Yeah, when we were making the record and listening back to it, we could hear Euros' personality quite strongly on some bits. I know Euros (CHILDS) was already a touring member of the band a few years back and I think he's got more presence on the record, especially on the title track for example. There's also been quite a few changes in the line-up. so we try to play 4 or 5 a night amongst all of our old songs. We're trying to play as many of them as we can. But yeah, definitely, we're now at show 21 on this particular tour so they all sound pretty good I think. NB : Yes, I suppose we also had a brief opportunity to play them live, but you know we recorded them all as live in the studio as we could and in terms of the arrangements it was pretty easy to translate them from the studio recording into the live environment. Does it mean that it gave you more time to let the songs mature before their live setting ? I think we might make it into the end, so that's all good. And now we're getting nervous about somebody getting sick into the tour. We played a handful of shows last year, but very few. Unfortunately, we didn't get to complete that process at the time, so it was good to finally do it. So, getting back in front of people feels like being back in the real world. RMG : There's something nice about going on tour that completes the whole process because you get to play the songs live, because obviously in the process of making the record, or as Norman was saying when you're doing interviews, obviously you don't have an audience involved. So with this one (Endless arcade ) we recorded the album and then did lots of interviews and stuff leading up to that and then it all just stopped. We were really frustrated because normally when you make an album, you will tour it immediately, or the album will be released in the first couple of days of the tour. Raymond McGINLEY : Yes, finally ! How do you feel about that ? I suppose you're quite excited ? Norman BLAKE : That's a pleasure! You can ask us anything. Let me warn you, I have lots of questions, so just let me know if you get tired before the end. "Back in the real world" Hello guys, thanks for being here and doing this interview.
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