2021-11-27 Music 101, RNZ, Wellington, New Zealand

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Tony Stamp spoke to Dave Gahan over Zoom to discuss his Soulsavers collaboration 'Imposter'. The interview was uploaded as an audio segment on their website, which we have copied below without the songs. Radio New Zealand also transcribed some quotes from the interview:

"There was a point where [Depeche Mode] just wasn't enough for me."

"Over the years [Soulsavers and I have] become mates."

"It's that yearning for me to experience something outside of my day job if you like. Which is a great job, I have a great job, don't get me wrong, I love my job. I still want to stretch myself and work with other musicians."

"My tongue is in my cheek there [regarding the album title.] There's a bit of sarcasm to that because I have felt like that many, many times in the past. Having sang for many, many years Martin Gore's songs for instance, there was many times I realised at some point 10 years in, the way to get to remove this feeling is I have to really push for my own songs as well to be part of these projects."

"This particular group of songs for me when played back to back they took me on a little journey."

"I started to lose sight of the original versions. At some point it turned into feeling very, very real and natural. I really felt like the singer ... I felt, I could really own this. This is mine, like, I've earned this."

"['Smile' is] a song that is revealing to this person that is desperately trying to grow up and stand up tall ... and stand there and be proud of who they are, but they still feel like there's this child inside them that's been crushed somehow. That song, lyrically as well, it has the same empowerment for me."

"To me Charlie Chaplin was the ultimate imposter. When I was a little kid I was obsessed with him for a little while. I used to watch him and his expressions. He could do it all and he was like the ultimate performer, and he didn't use any words. I still to this day couldn't tell you much about the guy at all. We identified with Charlie Chaplin. We all identify with that person. My thing that I use with that is my voice and if I really kind of go there and reach deep, with songs like 'Smile', it feels really honest to me."

"I'm finding as I get older and over the years you have to take these opportunities. There's things that get given to you and they're little magical things, and if you kind of go nahhh, I don't do that, that's not me, or I don't wear that kind of shirt, nothing's ever going to change, is it?"

"I'm always looking for a way to not feel like the way I feel. Music has always been the key to that and the one therapeutic part of all the stuff I've tried in my life so far that has not done a lot of damage. All of the other choices are not necessarily so good, but music always carries me through things."

• Duration: 11:13 out of 14:45 minutes

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