We’re guessing Burning has been taking up a lot of your time lately. How’s that all going?
“It was actually recorded and finished so long ago now that it’s nice to talk about it again. It’s going well and it looks like there’s a decent amount of interest in the film. We had been asked frequently in the past to do a live album and/or film so we got off our arses and did one and we’re pretty proud of the outcome.”
What else have you been up to, music-wise?
“We’re in a gloriously dull industrial estate outside of Glasgow right in the middle of recording the new album now so the last six months have been a lot of writing and rehearsing and gossiping. We also wrote a 20 minute piece of music for the artist Douglas Gordon and Olaf Nicolai for a new project in Germany which will see the light of day soon.”
Tell us about the mix you’ve done for FACT.
“Well, I was going to do a (more usual for me) electro / techno mix but I had a very sore back and took a very strong prescription painkiller and in my stupor decided to scrap that idea and have a load of bands like Fad Gadget, Severed Heads and Tuxedomoon plus some other weird little pop tunes from France and Australia. You can almost hear the back pain vanishing as the mix goes on.”
Any particular bands / artists you’re into right now?
“Apart from the stuff on the mix… John Maus, John Bender and I just heard the new Phantom Band album yesterday which sounds great. But I am a musical fidget and change what I listen to constantly. Could be Bill Callaghan’s sexfunk period work on the iPod next… or Bob Dylan’s skateboarding hits of the 80′s. Yourself?”
Anything Mogwai / Rock Action-related on the horizon you’re able to tell us about?
“We have a new EP from Remember Remember soon plus the Errors remix album (we did a remix on this too). From our tiny stable of Japanese bands we have the final Afrirampo album and a new album from Envy. It’s the first proper Mogwai album on Rock Action next year too so hopefully that won’t ruin everyones super awesome fun.”
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