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MAY 20<strong>18</strong> | ISSUE #67<br />
misbehaved! [laughs]<br />
R: You were in a band previously called<br />
Million Dead, do you miss being a band or<br />
are you happy solo?<br />
I am happy in a band when it’s a band. I was<br />
really proud of the things we did in that band;<br />
the problem was that the wheels fell off it<br />
happened in a pretty undignified way. We<br />
fell out with each other and forgot how to be<br />
friends and at the end, I felt let down by the<br />
other people, as I wanted to do it forever and<br />
ever! In retrospect now, I can accept my role at<br />
the end of the band as much as anyone else’s,<br />
one of the reasons I went solo is because<br />
I didn’t want to have to depend on other<br />
people, which meant I wasn’t vulnerable to<br />
other peoples decisions.<br />
R: I was introduced to your music by my<br />
partner a few years ago and when I first<br />
listened to a few of the tracks the lyrics<br />
really got to me!<br />
Thank you!<br />
R: They make me quite teary, in particularly<br />
‘Tell Tale Signs’ and ‘Plain Sailing Weather’,<br />
where do you draw inspiration for in your<br />
lyrics?<br />
Lyrics just kind of show up in my head, I was<br />
always quite literate. With these songs, I was<br />
trying to write in the most raw and honest<br />
fashion I could and that was helped and<br />
inspired by the fact that the major relationship<br />
in my life at the point had fallen apart, so I<br />
was writing about myself and my own short<br />
comings.<br />
are all almost all written from the point of view<br />
of the victim. It was entirely my fault that the<br />
relationship fell apart and I thought it would<br />
be interesting to try and write that record as<br />
at the time I couldn’t see anyone else who had<br />
done that?<br />
R: Your renowned for your honest, hard<br />
hitting words, when writing how do you hope<br />
people to interpret what you are trying to<br />
put out there?<br />
I think the interpretation is one of the most<br />
interesting parts, but I also think that what<br />
makes it interesting is that its not driven by<br />
me. Whatever other people take away from<br />
it is their affair and I find it interesting, but I<br />
can’t direct that. When people connect with<br />
songs that are that raw and that personal it is<br />
almost a relief, as you put your soul out there.<br />
If somebody else says, “Yeah, I get it man”<br />
that feels pretty good. In essence I feel that<br />
you have to write for yourself, otherwise it<br />
would be dishonest.<br />
R: I hope you don’t mind me saying but your<br />
relation a collection of your greatest hits…<br />
you seem very young to be doing that!<br />
[laughs]<br />
R: Either you’ve had an amazing career and<br />
you have loads of material or you’re older<br />
than you say you are!<br />
[laughs] Well I am 36 years old, I am not a<br />
man that has a stage age, I have known people<br />
over the years who have had stage ages and I<br />
am still laughing about it now, because really<br />
who gives a toss!<br />
R: Sorry to hear you had such a rubbish time<br />
Frank, as we can definitely here that through<br />
the lyrics…<br />
Haha! Actually the one thing about this record<br />
was I was trying to write a break up song from<br />
the point of view of the bad guy. There are<br />
lots of break up records in the world and they<br />
R: Your 8th studio album is to be released<br />
in May ‘Be More Kind’ can you tell us more<br />
about this? Will it be any different from your<br />
past material or something different?<br />
Part of the reason that we did ‘Songbook’<br />
my greatest hits, before Christmas is that I<br />
wanted to draw a bit of a line. Its an attempt<br />
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