It’s a very vulnerable moment when you’ve been writing a record for two, three years, piecing it together over that period of time, and you then present it to people – particularly when it has quite a strong idea about it. Moving on to more recent times, and you released latest album ‘Pocketful Of Stones’ in 2017 do you still get nervous about how people are going to react, when you release new music? Paisley’s enormous security guard he laughed and it sounded like an earthquake when he was laughing. I have no opinion on it whatsoever, but it was really funny that the town and the man were getting so confused, and we were frantically waving our hands saying “No, no, no! It’s just a local reference we don’t mean anything by it!” I remember having a laugh with Mr. Well, it’s so funny, because our politics is absolutely nothing to do with it we completely stay out of Irish politics in any way, shape, or form.
It’s ironic that you had to change the lyrics to that one song, given the band’s political side. “Is this one for Paisley? Oh you've got to help me” you know, we were going to be completely misinterpreted under the circumstances, so we changed it to “Does this make you crazy? Oh you’ve got to help me”! The most extraordinary thing we ever did in Belfast is we were on the Gerry Kelly show, and it was Friday night live, and the Reverend Ian Paisley was one of the guests on the show, and they asked us to change the lyrics of ‘Looking For Linda’ because it has all these references to Paisley - the town - in it. What were your experiences of playing in Ireland like prior to the band’s reformation in 2006?
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I think we’re playing in Belfast at The Empire, which I have very, very strong memories of, of Saturday nights being more than a bit nuts, in a good way! I don’t think I’ve seen people who know how to enjoy their Saturday nights more than Belfasters they’d even put Glaswegians to shame, I think. The part of Scotland that we’re from is a town called Coatbridge, which is quite a big place for Irish emigres of all kinds, so it’s always great fun to be back in Ireland. We always love playing Belfast and Dublin. You’re about to kick off another round of live dates starting in Ireland are you looking forward to the shows? I’m all right I’m midway through my coffee, so I’ll be reviving as we speak! I’ll send you some caffeinated vibes.
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