Zane: “Tell us about that song and where it popped up, Ed.”
Ed: “Well, we have had that one kicking around for probably, well, at least six years.”
Zane: “(laughs) Good to see you guys have been productive, you know, with the new music.”
Ed: “Well we have a lot of these songs, you know, that just sit on the shelf. You know that they’re good, but it’s all about timing, or, you know, you might arse around with an arrangement and it’s not quite right. And what happens when we were putting together, we did this thing called From The Basement, which is basically filmed live, doing the songs off King of Limbs, and, um (laughs), because of King of Limbs’s eight tracks, we did two extra tracks, for this TV thing. And we had a bit of a swat on about it, you know, we had a week to do it, and it happened very very quickly. I think the fact is that we’ve got Clive drumming with us as well, and it just came together really quickly, everybody knew the song, and it also was kind of made by the fact that we knew we were going to have a brass section - and Jonny did a great arrangement - and it was one of those things, you know, just happened very quickly. And the version that you hear is basically, it’s all live, I mean there are no overdubs, it’s old-school in that regard.”
Zane: “Yeah, and thing when you listen to that as well, especially in the context of The King of Limbs, that to me is the sound of, that, you know, could have featured on any one of your records up ’til now.”
Ed: “Yeah, totally, I mean it’s…I mean that’s the thing about that kind of stuff that we do, it’s kind of like - we’ve got that, it’s kind of in the bag.”
Zane: “Stop showing off. Come on, that’s ridiculous.”
Ed: “I’m not showing off, that’s kind of - we can do that. But you know, the thing is it’s like…if you do too much of that, you get bored, so, like I told you last time I was in, it’s all reacting. I mean - that is a reaction. Before that version we’d probably played through it five times in total. You know, in terms of rehearsal, picking that song up again. So it’s literally, you know, after the [Studiohead?] of King of Limbs, it’s really refreshing to do something like that.”
