We don’t really have a problem with that stuff. I said, “Steve, your cut of it is 20 grand.” He said, “All right.” (Laughs) Steve likes to complain every now and again. Before vegan was fashionable, I’ll let you know.
Was it ever in anything that offended or surprised you?Ī: When Burger King used it, Steve was a vegan. Q: “I Melt With You” has been in so many commercial and films. We only really didn’t do the band for about seven years. I moved out of London, firstly decided to change my life. Q: What did you do in the years Modern English wasn’t active?Ī: I had a vintage store that I ran for a couple of years. The “Mesh & Lace” album is back in fashion. Suddenly we’re playing to 20-year-old kids in Joy Division T-shirts. Q: Do you think your music has come back into fashion?Ī: It is strange the whole punk thing has come around again. We didn’t want to overdub lots and lots of things. So we tried to do as much live as possible. The space has a massive live room which we could record in and get a big sound. Mick works in an art gallery space near where we live. We’ve got no record company.Ī: It took over two years to write and record it. But because we’re OK now, financially … we just decided to do what we wanted. When you’re trying to give exciting, edgy music to people, it’s sometimes difficult. The album is like a bridge between “Mesh & Lace” and “After the Snow.”Īfter “I Melt With You,” everything went crazy for us and we were in the commercial world of the music business. It sounds like it should have been the second album. Q:”Take Me to the Trees” is a return to your punk roots. We play the new song, which is just as good as anything else they’re gonna hear.
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Plus play a track from our new album to a middle-of-the road audience that wouldn’t normally hear it. This gives us a chance to play the old stuff and the commercial stuff. We did this tour because we’ve got the new album out. Left field stuff the first album, “Mesh & Lace.” We normally keep away from them because we prefer to go out on our own and play our really old wild material. Q: What is the best part of being on Retro Futura tour with other ‘80s artists?Ī: This is the first time we’ve done one. Even though “I Melt With You” has given us a lot of money over the years, we had to figure out a way to make it work financially as well. Note, however, that the version of "I Melt with You" is not the bopping hit rendition instead, it's a long, slow remake, perhaps to imply that the friends' lives are not as peppy and exciting as they used to be.A: The music business has changed so much.
Clearly, these are guys who spent a significant part of their adolescences playing air guitar, and those sounds have followed them into adulthood. Sometimes, the lyrics seem to suggest the movie's themes, such as Big Dipper's "All Going Out Together" and Bauhaus' "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything." The occasional outlier appears, none farther out than all ten minutes of Funkadelic's 1971 psychedelic guitar freak-out "Maggot Brain." (In the album notes, Pellington says that when a DJ friend turned him on to the track, he tried it under every scene in the movie, "and it worked gangbusters.") Even here, though, the electric guitar excursion is a constant. This is often British post-punk/new wave rock, with lots of chiming guitars and portentous vocals. The story of four male friends who stage a weekend reunion each year is pegged to the songs they loved in their youth, that being in the early '80s, and so the 30 songs chosen for use in the film (of which 13 are heard on the soundtrack album, along with a brief taste of the background score by tomandandy) tend to be drawn from that era, not only as performed by Modern English, but also the Specials, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Love and Rockets, the Pixies, Bauhaus, and Adam & the Ants. That title gives an indication of exactly what sort of music, too. Music plays a big part in director Mark Pellington's film I Melt with You, as the title reference to Modern English's 1982 single suggests.
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