We hired this big house to record in and… he kept trying to get our attention and would suddenly turn up in the control room with trays of alcohol, trying to get into our good graces. “We were recording in the west of Ireland. “Our roadie was chased by a chef with a shotgun!” But I was a vast fan of his and I wish I’d taken the chance to tell him.”ĥ When you recorded The Waterboys’ 1988 album ‘Fisherman’s Blues’ in Ireland, a member of your party was chased by a chef brandishing what? He was cool and came to several Waterboys gigs before he died, so he must have been some kind of fan. I’m glad I did that, because when I met David Bowie at a party, I didn’t do that and was a bit cheeky and addressed him as ‘Dave’. “I met Lou at a gig in New York, and I had the presence of mind to thank him for all his influence and his music. The Waterboys took its name from a lyric his song ‘The Kids’.
One of the records that Moz signed was ‘Transformer’ by Lou Reed. “I never heard from him, but some of his fans were predictably pissed off about it!” I thought it was a fucking rip-off and a joke, so I sent one of my techs to a local shop and he brought back a couple of Morrissey albums that customised and then jokingly offered to the audience for inflated prices like Morrissey had done.” “This was because I’d seen online that Morrissey was selling, as part of his merchandising, copies of classic albums not by him, but signed by him, like Iggy Pop’s ‘Raw Power’ and Bowie’s ‘Aladdin Sane’, for $300 each.
On one Moz album you’d written ‘Morrissey is a twat’. “Two Morrissey albums customised by me.”ĬORRECT. That came from me writing on the record sleeve for a joke: ‘For Prince, U saw the whole of the moon.’”Ĥ Onstage in Oslo in November 2019, what did you jokingly offer to sell for $300 each? It wasn’t about him, but our keyboard player Karl and I were huge Prince fans, and we caught certain sounds from his records which we transformed into our own thing and put on ‘The Whole of the Moon’. He was a big influence on the sound of the track. They do a naughty thing I approve of where they change the first line from ‘ I pictured a rainbow / You held it in your hands’ to just a repeated ‘ You held it in your hands’, so it has a different meaning!”įamously, Prince did a rendition and there was speculation that it was about His Purpleness for a while. It’s all programmed synthesisers and it’s seriously funky. “One of my favourites is a gay disco version by Boys of a New Age from 1998. It’s a song that’s been tackled by many, many artists including Frightened Rabbit and Bleachers… One of our backing singers was standing at her window, heard it playing and thought: have I missed a gig?!” “They also played it at a big open-air show in Dublin. Frontman Brandon Flowers declared it “one the finest songs I’ve ever heard”. 2 Which Las Vegas band covered ‘The Whole of the Moon’ when they played Scotland’s TRNSMT festival in 2018?ĬORRECT.
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