[分享] Paul：我是很樂意做Mansun第五張專輯啦…

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原文網址：http://0rz.tw/YjzVP Paul Draper interview: 'I'd like to make a fifth Mansun album' By Mayer Nissim Friday, Nov 22 2013, 16:30 GMT They may not have been covered on Best of British Week on this year's X Factor, but guitar pop fans of a certain vintage will definitely remember Mansun. Led by frontman Paul Draper, the band released three albums during their lifetime - Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997), Six (1998) and Little Kix (2000) - as well as the posthumous sessions for Kleptomania in 2004. Draper has popped up here and there since and devoted Mansunites set up a petition urging him to release some solo material. He later struck up an unlikely Twitter friendship with the name-borrowing South Central LA freestyler Mansun, prompting us to shoot him over some questions. Q:You recently teased the possibility of some solo material if there's enough fan support - how do you feel about your fans setting up a petition like that? Paul:"The petition came from me playing on the Marc Riley show on BBC Radio 6 with a band I really love called Menace Beach who will be big in 2014. "The petition for me to do my own record came from that as I've concentrated on collaborating with other artists since Mansun split - Skin from Skunk Anansie, The Joy Formidable, my latest project The Anchoress and now Menace Beach. I'm going to collaborate with them on their debut album as well, I think they are great. "However, Mansun fans want to hear my own material, so they've set up a Facebook petition, and it's obviously got my attention and I'm taking it very seriously now. I'm really excited that so many people remember Mansun fondly, the band seems to of had a renaissance recently for some reason. So in the new year I'm going to very seriously consider releasing something, let's just see." Q:What's The Anchoress all about? Paul:"The Anchoress is a collaboration between me and singer Catherine Davies, known as Catherine AD. We started out trying a few songs and it mushroomed into a full album made at my London studio, The Kitchen. Its performed by a great band we put together and written by Catherine and I. "I'm now excited to be working with Menace Beach in the new year, they are my favourite new band so I'm very lucky new, exciting musicians keep wanting to work with me, I feel blessed in that regard. "The Anchoress has 12 songs on the album and they are some of the best I've ever written. There aren't enough classic songs around at the moment, The Anchoress has them on the record in spades, Catherine and I are very proud of this record. If you like Mansun, you'll like The Anchoress I think!" Q:From Suede to the Stone Roses, EVERYONE seems to be reforming these days, but you've all-but ruled that out for Mansun - why is that, and would you be up for it if Chad was game? Paul:"Well myself and drummer Andie Rathbone speak occasionally and would be fine with doing something with Mansun again as long as it was something worthy of putting it back together again. We've even discussed hypothetically how something could be done. "For instance both of us feel our second album Six was much misunderstood at the time, in the Britpop era, and we both agreed we would view playing that record in its entirety for the first time as something we could both be proud of and would like to tackle. "We would like to make a fifth Mansun album, we would like to finish off the fourth album, Kleptomania - many, many things we feel we could accomplish over a series of years. The problem lies with the band's guitarist, Dominic Chad, who has said he does not wish to reform Mansun. So unfortunately we cannot do it. "It's more of a shame for the fans. Along with the Manic Street Preachers we had, and still have, one of the most dedicated fanbases in British rock. So that's where it stands, Dominic Chad knows where I am if he would like to play in Mansun, but as far as I know he doesn't want to do it so that's where it stands at present." Q:Do you have a favourite Mansun memory or moment from your time with the band that you'd like to share after all these years? Paul:"Haha, I couldn't possibly tell you the best ones!! I loved meeting and hanging out with David Bowie, he gave me a cigarette, I smoked it with him on a beach in Italy and we talked music. He loved our first album. Paul McCartney asked me to do a cover of 'Helter Skelter' when I was having lunch with him and George Martin one day at Air Studios, and I refused. "That was typical me back in the day though, not even Macca could get me to sing a cover, and I never did. I hung out with Prince in a private members' area of a nightclub in Tokyo. Let's just say he didn't have much to say. Great memories being part of that whole thing, seeing Jarvis and Damon and Liam around, great days!" Q:What would you like to think the lasting legacy of Mansun is? Paul:"What I'm most proud of about Mansun is how many new artists tell me they loved the band. Blood Orange aka Dev Hynes has just covered a Mansun song on his new album and tells me how much he loved the band. James from Pulled Apart by Horses text me the other day to say he loved Mansun. "Menace Beach, The Joy Formidable, Catherine AD, all these people I work with are not really for business reasons. They just like Mansun and want to work together, pick my brain and do something together. It's great, I'm like the godfather of new bands now and very proud of that." Q:What do you think about the current state of British guitar pop? Paul:"Poor, it's never been in a worse state, we need something new to happen to guitar music, a new movement, a new great band. The last mega band was the Arctic Monkeys and they've been around for a decade. It makes me want to get my guitar out and show 'em how to do it!" Q:Are you surprised at your continuing, enduring Twitter back-and-forth with South Central LA freestyler Mansun? How much fun do you think he's having with it all? Paul:"I haven't a clue what @OFFICIALMANSUN is all about, I dont know if he's serious or not. He says he's working on a Mansun featuring Mansun collaboration apparently. He's been quiet for a few days so we may hear him explode with a smash hit single, who knows!" Q:You have a giggle with the guns 'n' bitches attitude of lots of modern rap, but are you a fan of any other hip-hop? Would you seriously consider a crossover track (you worked with Arthur Baker after all...)? Paul:"I would absolutely work with a hip-hop artist if I rated their music. I love hip-hop, rap, whatever. When I was a teenager all my mates were at the indie disco swooning around to The Smiths. I was at soul and r'n'b nights dancing to James Brown, Public Enemy, NWA, De La Soul - so beats, breaks, r'n'b, Prince, soul has always been in my musical DNA." Q:The 'Being a Girl' video launched the career of one Danny Dyer - how do you feel about that fact, knowing what we know now? Paul:"I would like to apologise to the entire world for giving Danny Dyer his first break in showbusiness. I have very few regrets in life but if I could go back and recast that video I would. I'm sorry. To all fans of EastEnders, I apologise in advance. "I did however resurrect the career of Tom Baker on that album so I should get brownie points for that, it all evens itself out. That's why Mansun should reform, to put the record straight over Dyer and prove to the music world Six was not a Prog Chav album!" 好久沒看到這樣溫馨又正面的訪談了！話說近來Mansun有復興的跡象，即使被Paul放羊無數次的歌迷們依然不離不棄的支持難怪會讓Paul會龍心大悅阿！來重點整理一下： 1.Paul最近與The Anchoress與Menace Beach兩團合作，除了大推這兩團之外，Paul還表示如果喜歡Mansun的話，應該也會喜歡The Anchoress的。大家就自己去聽聽看吧！ Paul還說這些他合作過的樂團，都不完全是因為事業上的關係，而是他們本身也很喜歡Mansun，所以會想跟Paul合作。這讓他感覺自己像是這些後生樂團的教父一樣，哈哈。（插播：Delphic也很愛你們喔！快合作！）至於大家最關心的連署請Paul發行個人專輯這件事，Paul則回應：「會認真考慮。」好吧，但這次至少他有感謝大家的厚愛。XDD 2.關於Mansun重組的可能性，Paul則坦言關鍵是在吉他手Chad身上。他跟鼓手Andie 都覺得Six這張專輯在當時英國音樂圈中實在是被大大誤解與低估（確實！），而他與Andie甚至想過完整表演Six整張專輯。（如果成真我們就去英國版聚了啊！XD）他們原本希望能好好完成Kleptomania ，也想要做出Mansun第五張專輯，但問題是 Chad表明不希望Mansun重組。Paul還說Chad如果想重組Mansun的話，他知道怎麼聯絡 Paul，但是……………（飄走）（Paul在回答中完全忽視Stove XD）工商服務：https://www.facebook.com/dominicchadweneedyou 歌迷發起請Chad重組Mansun的連署。XDDDD Mansun迷真的甚麼都可以連署！ 3.被問及Mansun時光中的美好回憶，Paul提到了過去曾跟David Bowie與Prince相聚的情景。他還說Paul McCartney有一次希望他們能做Helter Skelter這首歌的cover，結果被Paul回絕了。XDrz Paul說：「矮由那就是當時典型的我嘛～就連Macca都不能說服我翻唱呀～」（你也知道你自己當時有多難搞XD）但是…還是完全沒有提到跟團員的相處耶…好吧，至少他這次終於不是回答「啥都沒」這樣恩斷義絕的話了。XD 4.Paul認為現今英國吉他搖滾很委靡。XDrz 「上一個超級大團是Arctic Monkeys。」（嗚啊！感謝您對猴團的賞識！//）「但那也差不多是十年前的事了吧！」（…我老了。）但重點是，Paul在結尾烙下一句話： It makes me want to get my guitar out and show 'em how to do it!" 教父霸氣叫囂了阿是不是！快出來示範！不要光說不做！XD 5.Paul為了讓英國演員Danny Dyer演出Being a girl這支MV而道歉。XDDDD 「如果我能重新選角的話我一定會的！抱歉，所有『東區人』的粉絲…」（註：「東區人」為英國長壽連續劇，Danny在2013年參與演出）其實演員剛入行去演MV也沒甚麼大不了的吧？Paul應該是警覺到Being a girl 這支MV實在是讓人不想承認有參與的作品。XDDD 還順便扯了一下「所以這是為甚麼我們應該重組！」XDDD -- 我想著野牛與天使，經久不褪顏料之秘預言般的十四行詩，藝術的庇護而這是我和妳共享的唯一不朽　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 -------我的羅莉泰 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 111.240.204.88