#tff interviews

[brokethedrawer]

One of my all-time favorite interviews with Roland . . . it's just audio, not video, but as one of the commenters noted, "his voice is simply hypnotic." He sounds so calm and happy <3.

[solefald]

Encore Magazine, July 1995

[brokethedrawer]

Curt, recollecting his last picnic:

"We had this ludicrous punch. Tasted like fruit juice but it was about 150 per cent proof. You have a couple of glasses--hmmm, this is nice fruit juice!--then you fall over . . ."

Roland, recollecting his last picnic:

"I had a picnic not so long ago at Castle Combe and it was freezing. Lovely food, though--champagne and fruit cocktail."

[brokethedrawer]

Ooooh--new interview with Curt! It's a really good one, too; I listened to it earlier <3.

[brokethedrawer]

I was reading an interview/article from 2013, and now I'm curious -- which track did Roland say was "a combination of Portishead and Queen"? Was it a song that eventually made it, in some way, onto The Tipping Point? Or is it perhaps still sitting on a USB drive somewhere, in demo form?

We know there's at least one song on TTP that originated that far back ("End of Night"). But we also know there are songs they worked on that never made it to the album, too. Hmm.

Anyway, here's the source article:

Inside Tears for Fears' Big Return

Reissue of the band's 1983 debut 'The Hurting' due in October

And if that link disappears or is behind a paywall, here's a link to an archived copy.

[brokethedrawer]

Music Life - Confronting expectations with Steven Wilson, Roland Orzabal, Lucy Rose and Andy Partridge - BBC Sounds

Does the world still need new music, and is "retro mania" stopping rock from evolving?

AHHH I totally missed this interview the other day when it came out. Just listened to it--Roland is his customarily honest, forthright self <3. They get into a conversation about AI-generated music, among other things--and near the end, Roland mentions "we're working on a live album" (just after the 31 minute mark).

[brokethedrawer]

This is a slightly older interview with Roland, from 2018, but I found it interesting reading:

Tears For Fears talks ahead of their gig at Arena Birmingham

He’s raw. And we both know that. Throughout our interview, emotions are just below the surface, waiting to bubble up. We skirt around the ob