Hooky interview on Sabotage Times
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Thanks! Pretty good interview. I didn't know about the Fuc51 blog. It's actually quite good.
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=135685&fm=newsmain,nrhl
(IMO if New Order were worried about the high costs of making WFTSC, why did they record it at such an expensive studio?)
In my opinion, WFTSC clearly did not need the myriad of big name producers (Street, Leckie, Price etc), the costly studio time at Real World, the guest vocalists etc. which became the final album. They could have done it by themselves, in their own (Steve's?) studio, on their own label (with Warners handling distribution) but they were probably clinging to an edifice of a dying corporate way I.e. the pre-Internet recording industry where every single rock star whim was indulged and adhered to.
From what I've consistently read - including this interview - Hooky clearly has zero interest in making new music these days. Realistically, he could put out a new album if he really wanted to, lots of new bands do regardless of the so-called financial risks but for some reason he's decided it's not for him. Fair play, that's ultimately his decision but it does tend to make him sound like more of a businessman than a musician.
The Light do seem to be a pretty tight band. Putting the Joy Division stuff completely to one side they could do an EP of fresh material or something. Not sure it will happen though...
amurr586 wrote: In my opinion, WFTSC clearly did not need the myriad of big name producers (Street, Leckie, Price etc), the costly studio time at Real World, the guest vocalists etc. which became the final album. They could have done it by themselves, in their own (Steve's?) studio, on their own label (with Warners handling distribution) but they were probably clinging to an edifice of a dying corporate way I.e. the pre-Internet recording industry where every single rock star whim was indulged and adhered to.
From what I've consistently read - including this interview - Hooky clearly has zero interest in making new music these days. Realistically, he could put out a new album if he really wanted to, lots of new bands do regardless of the so-called financial risks but for some reason he's decided it's not for him. Fair play, that's ultimately his decision but it does tend to make him sound like more of a businessman than a musician.
The Light do seem to be a pretty tight band. Putting the Joy Division stuff completely to one side they could do an EP of fresh material or something. Not sure it will happen though...
Of course it wasn't just the studios that cost them money...but I also read an interview that Phil gave to an online Japanese music site around the time NCAT was released. He said something like (my translation) 'Interviewer- So wasn't the recording process very different from that of New Order? Phil- It was very much different. The last album by New Order was recorded at Real World Studios, owned by Peter Gabriel, yet the usage fees were so expensive that it makes you think, "How much does it really cost to make an album?" It was so expensive it makes you think you shouldn't have even asked about the fees. But that was New Order. You know, spend a lot of money on the recording sessions or something. But this time it was a totally different experience.'
So I assumed the studios were one big reason that the album was 'expensive' to make. But then you have three producers working on it too. When you spend that much money to make an album, of course it's going to take effort to make a profit out of that (internet or no internet, it doesn't matter much in that situation). So, I don't blame internet piracy regarding WFTSC.
