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saville talk 28th august

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he talked for about 90 minutes, didnt do a speech first, just answered questions.

nb only 4 questions were asked - he did tend to go on with his answers so anyone going to the next one should try & get in early with the new order questions!

after he was available to sign stuff & i asked him a couple of questions then (much shorter answers!) he signed the book, the soundtrack cd, a lwtua 12" & a few factory posters. not sure if he was signing fac1 reprints...

the sleeve for world is chicago. he thinks the sleeve for spooky is los angeles - asked re the union bonk & removed buildings from the pictures he said he was just messing around with photoshop.

when we (went with don) looked round the museum beforehand he was being interviewed by people from adobe & it was being videod - not sure if this is going to be an in house thing only...

of particualr interest was his announcement that after ian died & the band were starting up as neworder the lyric writing process was shared - they would do a couple of lines each (&then write the lyrics - arf!) & leave them when they got stuck for someone else to add a bit.

hence no movement, no silence, no lyrics!

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We too got just 4 questions - in 1 hr 15mins! The fella does like to talk.

Interestingly, one of the questions was from a Canadian(!) New Order fan who quoted the 'how cool is coldness' line from some review years back.

Mr Sultan picked up his ebay tapes from the lad who was in Revenge. Lots of New Order live gigs from 83-85, plus a few jam sessions which obviously he'd had no time to listen to before last night. . .

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Thought Saville was great - unpretentious. He wasn't afraid to express his personal view on things, I could have listened to him all night. He would make a great modern vicar!

It was interesting that he said NO weren't bothered about cash until the collapse of Factory when it finally hit them that they hadn't got their full earnings, but they must have made up for it with the barrage of London re-releases.

Mr Sultan tape collection was very impressive, especially all the working title stuff - and even stuff from '81 - would love to hear it. Hooky's old bass strap with the bit of gaffer stuck on it was rather tantalising!

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