Goldie interviewed on JUICE Singapore's Artiste vs Artiste (Mar 2001) discussing Noel's songwriting and reiterating his appreciation for Noel going all out for him:
0:50 On Oasis vs Pulp:
It's got to be Oasis. The songwriting – Noel's a prolific songwriter. If you look at the detail of that stuff, even his High Flying Birds project now, you listen to some of the lyrics and it's very, very beautiful songwriting. [Joking] Not quite as good as Thom York, but he's good. He's one of the guys that really went all out for me. He didn't have to fcking come and play on a record. At the time, they were huge. They were fcking huge. It was like getting fcking Rod Steiger to come and do a vocal for me. [Laughing] "Rod Steiger, come and sing this fcking ballad for me, will you?"
More on Dizzee Rascal, hanging out with Adele and going to see Ed Sheeran with her, and the Beatles vs Rolling Stones under the cut:
My name is Goldie, I'm an alchemist, I am an old boy, and I am a young man.
0:06 On Skepta vs Dizzee Rascal:
People always judge when they're all in the same arena, but you got to understand that when Dizzee first came out, no one was really doing that and pushing that, and now it's the common thing. Everyone's like, "Let's compare them" and "Skeps is better than Dizzee" – well, you're going to get that. It's like saying, "Goldie and Rudimental" – we were 20 years earlier. Dizzee was a very big champion and innovator of that, and Dizzee's my boy anyway.
1:21 On Adele vs Sam Smith:
So it's pretty cool, I enjoyed that. It's got to be Adele, man, because she's from around the way. She's a good girl. Sam's from around the way, but Adele's... that album, all of it, is just fcking brilliant. I was with her last year at Wembley. We went to see Ed Sheeran play. She's just a great girl. She's a great girl and a great songwriter. A fcking brilliant songwriter.
1:39 On The Beatles vs Rolling Stones:
It's got to be the Stones, man. You listen to "Angie" when you're fcking pissed and you start crying later in it. Mick Jagger is a massive blues fan, and he really says, "Listen, this music comes from blues guys". Again, about gentrification, he's like, "Listen, guys, know your fcking train. Listen to where we've come from". Do you know what I'm saying? He's not anonymous to that fact. A lot people go, "What? Rhythm and blues? Who's Bo Diddley?". Hello? That's what I like about Mick Jagger with that aspect. He really said that we built this whole music on the blues. You look at artists like Lead Belly – wow. He was taken out of prison to go on tour. [Laughing] Imagine how lucky we are.
Far from the first person to do it but I will never stop sucking this album off. He produced this track when he was sixteen. What were we doing when we were sixteen. We were on Tumblr. Not producing any track off Boy in da Corner.
A little treat for the end of the week, an edit of Adam to the unofficial British national anthem of the late 2000s-early 2010s, Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Bonkers’.
Life update:
- I’ve been elected as vice president of my uni’s first aid society
- I’ve just got a job offer
- I’m doing well on my public policy assignment due for next week.
