Ian McNabb has a theory about why nobody’s ever known what to do with him, and why that’s exactly what’s kept him going for forty years. Record companies, marketing people, even his own fans, none of them have ever quite landed on a box that fits, not since the Icicle Works days.
Most people expect an hour of Love Is A Wonderful Colour. We got some of that of course, but mostly we talked about his new album, 65, which is brilliant, and which took up most of our hour for good reason. About making records the way people used to make mixtapes, and why he thinks that art’s been lost. About a Dylan story he tells against himself that changed how I think about lyric writing. About Stanley Kubrick, working men’s clubs, and a joke about prog rock that got more serious the longer we sat with it. It’s an exclusive (ish).
And about his mum, Sinatra, and the hoovering. That one I wasn’t expecting, and it’s a real life, real people moment. I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
None of it went where I thought it would really.
Which I bloody love.
Full conversation up now on The Third Half.
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Scott
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