Brian Eno

There was 10 people in the audience.

It's like what Brian Eno said about the Velvet Underground, where only 10 people bought that first Velvet Underground album.

And

the people who were at that gig, those gigs, became people who formed bands in Sheffield.

Hove.

Hello, Brian.

Oh, hi, Nick.

How are you doing? Brian, I am great, mate.

Just a couple of things, really.

I've been doing a lot of social things and going out.

And they're all going to start dropping off the end of life's conveyor belt pretty soon and all at the same time as well.

I keep saying this, all of those people that we grew up...

So, you know, as far as Shootcase is concerned, loveless to me.

And I would say Suvlaki, produced by Brian Eno.

yeah the slow dive record

um because

that's the other big

i mean how did they get so lucky to have brian eno produce their fucking album yeah that's just ridiculous

yeah so yeah those i would i'm with kim on that those two albums

that's just that is a very artistic beautiful beautiful album i think seeing is one of my favorite songs of all time it is it's probably probably is my favorite song of all time.

The pairing of gentle music with rain sounds is not a recent innovation.

Ambient music artists, beginning with Brian Eno in the mid-1970s, have incorporated field recordings of rain, wind and water as compositional elements for decades.

Eno's foundational concept of ambient music music designed to be as ignorable as it is interesting, aligns with extraordinary precision to the acoustic qualities of rain, which naturally occupies that same remarkable space between attention and inattention.

The thalamus, a roughly walnut-sized structure buried deep in the centre of the brain, plays a critical role in determining which sounds reach conscious awareness and which are filtered out before they ever get there.

The production is, I think, intentionally murky in places.

I think that was Brian Eno's... enosification whatever that means he just put he flanged up a couple of microphones i guess and steve steve i think he he's at his best on this album you know filler there probably is filler Andy, I mean, yeah, why not? I mean, it's a double album.

They had to fill it and sell it at some point.

I think the biggest mistake they might have made was touring it before it was released and not recording it after they toured it.

Is the dynamic different after so long or how did it work? Was there conflict? What was it like? We

decided that we would make it fun and that we would make it about inspiration and because we had so much material we knew that if something just didn't work we just throw it to the side and only concentrate on the music that really had got everybody excited so that was a great position to be in we also ron and i done a little work on kind of a side project with brian eno and we had some of that work that we thought maybe might might interest adam and larry and and They loved it.

So it was a perfect situation.

No pressure, no agenda, no expectations.

Why are they throwing these away as EPs? This one song coexists that I've been determined to play on the radio.

It's Seven Minutes.

It's you and Brian Eno.

Was that the stuff from the side project Edge was talking about? I

Like two-thirds of the properties were abandoned.

usually having something to do with that the taxes were the taxes were higher than the value of the building itself something like that so either they would like burn deliberately burn the the structure down or just outright abandon it and just walk away uh no paper trail um but you know it's it's interesting like like uh sometimes when i ponder because i have a lot of dumb luck in my life you know like there's literally like i'm not i wasn't a genius it was just like dumb luck i don't know and even the meeting of brian eno that helped me start the studio um kind of dumb luck.

So I think that when New York City was a lot more affordable and when there was a lot more space and places to do stuff, it facilitates some of these things that later I look at it being dumb luck because it facilitated crossing paths with people.

It facilitated just starting something on a hunch.

I guess that's punk.

That is so punk, actually.

So still, you know, 1920, how do you then meet Brian Eno?

Yeah, well, that was Laswell.

Interesting factoid, while the band had a strong following in the UK for years, this song became their biggest breakthrough in the United States.

It climbed up into the top 40 of the Billboard charts, which helped introduce American audiences to Roxy Music's kind of different unique style another interesting factoid is that roxy music had some incredibly influential musicians pass through the lineup over the years one member brian eno who would later become one of the most important producers in modern music was in the band over the years this song has been sampled and remixed in various movies and tv shows It's a great song.

Speaking of influence, a lot of artists in the late 70s and 80s took note from Roxy Music's style, and it did help pave the way for bands in the new wave movement, groups like Duran Duran and others.

They openly cite Roxy Music as an influence.