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The Truth About Everything: An Interview With Sia (Pt. 2)
The Truth About Everything: An Interview With Sia (Pt. 2)
- Genre : More Music
- Type: News
- Author : Super Admin
- Date : Fri, 30 Mar 2007
I've seen you live twice, but never on one of your solo tours. The first time was the Zero 7 show at the Hollywood Bowl this past summer.
Yeah, that was wicked fun.
It looked like—and we were sitting pretty far back, the Hollywood Bowl is a big place—but it looked like you were mixing drinks onstage.
Yeah, well, because on the other albums, we had a lot of singers, and we'd go off and come on, and go off and come on. It just seemed like a lot of drama. So this time I said, why don't I just get a bar and stay on? And me and Jose [Gonzalez] can sit back there, we can do our backing vocals from there, and I can fix drinks for everybody, and it'll be fun. I loved it. It was the best and worst tour of my life, because obviously we all got 70 times drunker than on any other tour.
When you're on the road, do you frequently concoct little projects to keep yourself busy? I'm sensing a theme here.
Yes, definitely. Like little silly movies. Or I've gotten into crosswords, actually. I've always been into crosswords, but I really got into doing crosswords with Sam on the last Zero 7 tour. You do develop ways to stave off the cabin fever.
I suppose you reach a point where you know the songs well enough that it can get a little tedious on the road, right?
Yeah, although, I never got sick of the songs this time. I certainly have in the past; I'm not disputing that you get tired of singing your own songs, 'cause you fucking do. But this time, it really was like every show was different and really fun. And so I don't get bored, on my solo tours, I always talk to the audience, 'cause that brings something different in every time. There's always something that happened during the day that I can talk about to them. 'Cause I've seen a couple of people more than once, and they do the same banter—and I think that's lame. I'm so disappointed by that. The whole thing about seeing someone live is that it's about being in the present. Otherwise I'd stay at home and press play on the CD. It's about hearing the songs newly interpreted, and about getting a glimpse into the character of the person. Isn't it? It is for me. I don't want to go see a band and just have them play what sounds like the CD, and not even talk to us, or include us in the experience.
Speaking of doing things spontaneously onstage, the other time I saw you was at the Troubadour, when the Bird and the Bee were performing...
Oh, and I got up and did [singing] "How Deep Is Your Love?"
That struck me as completely spontaneous.
Yeah, she just rang me that day and said, "Will you come down and sing it?" I'd recorded it with them, just that one part. Inara [George] is my best mate.
Are you here in LA because you've been working on your new album?
I'm here because I love it, actually. But yeah, I just finished a new album here, and that's back in the U.K. now with Jimmy [Hogarth], the producer, because [our] cello player is there, and he's arranging the strings. He emails me the mixes every now and again. It'll be mixed over there by Tchad Blake, and then it's done.
Tchad Blake is great.
He's awesome. He did my last album, too. He's the best.
I wanted to ask you about the one studio song on Lady Croissant, "Pictures."
Oh yeah. That was a song that I'd actually, like, deleted. I wrote 45 or 50 songs over the last three years and I'd chosen 20 to give to Jimmy, who was going to choose 16 for us to record. He produced my last album [Colour the Small One], as well, but he kind of felt like he'd made a mistake with it, because he'd never seen me perform before that album was made. And when he saw me live, he said, "I want to do something different with this album. I think I made a mistake with the last album and I want to put it right."
So does "Pictures" give a sense of the direction you're going in on the new album?
Not at all, I don't reckon. Me and Dan [Carey] wrote it—Dan and I wrote "Breathe Me" as well, and a couple of other songs.
Yeah, that was wicked fun.
It looked like—and we were sitting pretty far back, the Hollywood Bowl is a big place—but it looked like you were mixing drinks onstage.
Yeah, well, because on the other albums, we had a lot of singers, and we'd go off and come on, and go off and come on. It just seemed like a lot of drama. So this time I said, why don't I just get a bar and stay on? And me and Jose [Gonzalez] can sit back there, we can do our backing vocals from there, and I can fix drinks for everybody, and it'll be fun. I loved it. It was the best and worst tour of my life, because obviously we all got 70 times drunker than on any other tour.
When you're on the road, do you frequently concoct little projects to keep yourself busy? I'm sensing a theme here.
Yes, definitely. Like little silly movies. Or I've gotten into crosswords, actually. I've always been into crosswords, but I really got into doing crosswords with Sam on the last Zero 7 tour. You do develop ways to stave off the cabin fever.
I suppose you reach a point where you know the songs well enough that it can get a little tedious on the road, right?
Yeah, although, I never got sick of the songs this time. I certainly have in the past; I'm not disputing that you get tired of singing your own songs, 'cause you fucking do. But this time, it really was like every show was different and really fun. And so I don't get bored, on my solo tours, I always talk to the audience, 'cause that brings something different in every time. There's always something that happened during the day that I can talk about to them. 'Cause I've seen a couple of people more than once, and they do the same banter—and I think that's lame. I'm so disappointed by that. The whole thing about seeing someone live is that it's about being in the present. Otherwise I'd stay at home and press play on the CD. It's about hearing the songs newly interpreted, and about getting a glimpse into the character of the person. Isn't it? It is for me. I don't want to go see a band and just have them play what sounds like the CD, and not even talk to us, or include us in the experience.
Speaking of doing things spontaneously onstage, the other time I saw you was at the Troubadour, when the Bird and the Bee were performing...
Oh, and I got up and did [singing] "How Deep Is Your Love?"
That struck me as completely spontaneous.
Yeah, she just rang me that day and said, "Will you come down and sing it?" I'd recorded it with them, just that one part. Inara [George] is my best mate.
Are you here in LA because you've been working on your new album?
I'm here because I love it, actually. But yeah, I just finished a new album here, and that's back in the U.K. now with Jimmy [Hogarth], the producer, because [our] cello player is there, and he's arranging the strings. He emails me the mixes every now and again. It'll be mixed over there by Tchad Blake, and then it's done.
Tchad Blake is great.
He's awesome. He did my last album, too. He's the best.
I wanted to ask you about the one studio song on Lady Croissant, "Pictures."
Oh yeah. That was a song that I'd actually, like, deleted. I wrote 45 or 50 songs over the last three years and I'd chosen 20 to give to Jimmy, who was going to choose 16 for us to record. He produced my last album [Colour the Small One], as well, but he kind of felt like he'd made a mistake with it, because he'd never seen me perform before that album was made. And when he saw me live, he said, "I want to do something different with this album. I think I made a mistake with the last album and I want to put it right."
So does "Pictures" give a sense of the direction you're going in on the new album?
Not at all, I don't reckon. Me and Dan [Carey] wrote it—Dan and I wrote "Breathe Me" as well, and a couple of other songs.
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