[kj] Youth hopes to subsidize further KJ albums through continued noodling with Paul McCartney

[Nick Scott]

Killing Koke!  Oopps nice typo NME!


On 20 April 2013 18:48, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:


> http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/69852

>

> April 20, 2013 16:28

>  Killing Joke's Youth hints at further The Fireman albums with Paul

> McCartney Bassist says he's hopeful pair could collaborate again

>

>

> *Killing Koke* bassist Youth has hinted that he and Paul McCartney<http://www.nme.com/artists/paul-mccartney>may release new material under their The Fireman moniker in the future.

>

> Youth, whose real name is Martin Glover, teamed up with the Beatles legend

> in the past for a series of experimental releases under their collaborative

> side-project, including their 1993 debut 'Oceans Ships Forest' and the 1998

> LP 'Rushes'.

>

> The pair last worked together on The Fireman's 2008 release 'Electric

> Arguments' but, in an interview with Digital Spy<http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a473689/paul-mccartney-youth-plan-more-projects-as-the-fireman.html>,

> Youth said he was optimistic they'd work together again. Asked about the

> possibility of them releasing a new album, he replied: "Hopefully, yeah.

> There's other projects I can't comment on at the moment because I'm not at

> liberty to, but there's definitely other interesting things happening. We

> first started that project 20 years ago, and we're still working on

> different Fireman projects.

>

> "There's a longevity to it that I don't think would have happened if I'd

> been doing Paul McCartney solo albums, so I'm very happy I have that

> relationship with him," he added.

>

> He also paid tribute to McCartney's experimental nature and suggested he

> didn't receive enough credit for his groundbreaking approach, adding: "I

> thought it was good that with The Fireman, Paul managed to get a little

> more acknowledgement for his avant-garde expression, which was a big part

> of The Beatles. John [Lennon] did get a lot of the credit for that,

> especially from when he was with Yoko [Ono], because Yoko was so associated

> with that. And absolutely, that was a massive part of it as well.

>

> "Paul was actually the one who did the tape loops for 'Tomorrow Never

> Knows' and was coming up with a lot of the out-there arrangement

> suggestions for Sgt Pepper's... and hadn't really been acknowledged for

> that."

>

> McCartney released his last studio album 'Kisses On The Bottom' in 2012

> and is currently working on a follow-up. Earlier this month (April 10) Mark

> Ronson, who is working with the singer on the record, said McCartney had

> been inspired by Usher and funk music on the LP<http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/69654>.

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