2017-02-21 Steve Lamacq Show, BBC 6 Music Radio, London, UK

Notes

Dave Gahan phones Steve Lamacq about the band joining the bill for this year’s festival at Barrowlands in Glasgow. He also talks about the band’s last visit to the city in 1984, and their forthcoming album ‘Spirit’, produced by Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford. The file was uploaded as a podcast on BBC.co.uk, which is from where this file was taken.

Gigwise typed out some quotes of Dave from this interview:

[James Ford] was a perfect fit for us. We really sort of needed – we needed to work with a new team. We done a few records with Ben Hillier and they’d been great and we really enjoyed that process, but it was, you know, we needed to try something new.

It’s impossible to not be affected by what goes on around you. Look a lot of these songs were written a year and a half ago, you know so but there’s stuff’s been going on you know in the world, these changes, these things that we’re all like you know you’ve got Brexit there, where you’re kind of like, WHAT? One of the songs on the album, the first song that’s on the album is called Backwards and you know pretty much sums it up. It’s like, what are we doing, people?

It’s the kind of album that you want to perform as well, there’s songs on there and we’ll pick six or seven songs or something from the record that we’ll want to put into our repertoire and we’re very fortunate.

Glasgow has always been one of those gigs that when we played, certainly in the early years that was always a great crowd. So it will be fun to play there again.

We’re in rehearsals now but we’re planning a sort of promotional trip when the album comes out and there’s talking of doing a few of these smaller things.

• Duration: 10:59 minutes