

One of the things that happened musically was we send him a song that we were working on called 'Hapsburg Lip' which didn't make the proper record in the end but did make the deluxe. It's not a very strange record but that was very unexpected.

He said that his favourite band was The Pixies which did surprise us a bit. They're unrepeatable because they're about anal sex and stuff like that - which you don't really want to hear.ĭid he play you anything strange musically? Within an afternoon he was cracking jokes that we found hilarious that were pretty weird. That was one of his main strengths: his ability to become one of us very quickly. He's a very surreal guy. We talk a lot of bollocks as a band and he just fitted right into that. We were trying to get something juicy out of him. There was one about Sean Connery.oh God I can't tell you! We did talk a bit about Madonna - he wasn't cagey per se but he only had very positive things to say which was a little bit boring. Jonathan Higgs: They are pretty much all unprintable. Gigwise: What was the most surreal conversation you had with Stuart Price during the making of the record? It was the absolutely by far and away the biggest response we got." To mark the release of their complex and compelling album Get To Heaven, the frontman discusses the influence of producer Stuart Price, what he wants from the new Radiohead record and whether the band sound like 'Baroque Obama'. "We played Liverpool Sound City a couple of days ago and we finished the set with 'Distant Past'. Higgs explains the band are still reeling from how well their new material has been received.
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We've never had full on belly laugh before." "With that song in particular I wasn't sure how people were going to react. That was when I knew that we'd hit the nail on the head," Higgs tells Gigwise. "It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair / Old enough to run / Old enough to fire a gun." It wasn't until the band's played it to Radio One's Huw Stephens and then to a devoted crowd at London's Oval Space that his mind was put at rest. One of the best tracks on the new record, 'No Reptiles' is built around the following refrain. There was one particularly strange lyric on the new Everything Everything album that even frontman Jonathan Higgs had concerns over.
