Two New Interviews

It’s been a while, but I’ve got some new interviews up for your reading pleasure.

Most recently, I chatted with Russell Leetch, bassist of Editors. Editors have a lovely, dark, synth-heavy new album out, called In This Light and On This Evening. It recently spent a little time as the #1 album in the UK. So, when the #1 album in the UK meets the #1 interviewer in my half of this duplex, here’s what you get:

JH: So, you all had to sing on this album …

RL: Yeah, on the backing vocals. Flood [Producer Mark "Flood" Ellis] made us! He was like, “So, Tom does all the backing vocals?” and we were like, “Well, yeah, ’cause he can sing the best.” He said, “Well, you all sing in tune, and it’ll sound like someone else’s voice. That’s what you want for the backing vocals.” When we started singing, we’d be laughing and going “We are really bad at this!” But the Boxer vocals are from all four of us, and they sound quite nice and eerie. It was opening us up to the fact that being a bit shit can be to your advantage.

A little bit before that, I got another chance to do The Morning News’ excellent TMN Talks series, which involves drawing from TMN’s in-house collection of very interesting questions. I corresponded with Graham Linehan, writer of some of my favorite TV comedies, including Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd.

TMN: Have you done or considered doing stand-up?

GL: I have. Didn’t go well. Twitter is a much better stage for me. I think through my fingers.

Thanks for indulging me. There should be more to come quite soon.