{"id":5228,"date":"2019-08-17T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:58:20","slug":"interview-spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/08\/17\/interview-spoon\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Spoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brittany Moura<\/em><\/p>\n

Spoon is on tour supporting Beck and Cage the Elephant, alongside up-and-comers Sunflower Bean, WTBU DJ Brittany Moura sat down with Spoon frontman Britt Daniel ahead of the tour’s show at Xfinity Center in Mansfield to discuss the band’s history, future plans, and current tour.<\/p>\n

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Brittany Moura: How\u2019d this tour come together?<\/b><\/p>\n

Britt Daniel: Matt [Schultz]\u00a0<\/span>called me, and it\u2019s honestly the first time that someone has ever called me personally and asked us to play, I thought that was a real classy move. But yeah, he called me back in December.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: Did they already have an idea for Beck and Sunflower Bean?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: I think Beck was being discussed at this point yeah. But the openers, there\u2019s been three different openers, and I’m not sure when those came about. But yeah, it is, a lot of rock and roll. A big bill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: How is it going?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: It\u2019s great, it\u2019s a lot of fun. It’s a really big show, and I like all the bands playing. You can see, it\u2019s all of us sharing this hallway and it\u2019s always the same thing at all these shows, where this door is the Beck door, and there\u2019s the Cage door, and the Beck band door and the Sunflower Bean door, so we\u2019re all kind of hanging out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: What do you think about Sunflower Bean?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: I think they\u2019re great, I wasn’t familiar with them. Some of the guys in the band were already hip to them, but I just found out and yeah they’re great.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM:\u00a0<\/b>So what sparked \u201cEverything Hits at Once,\u201d the new album?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: Well the idea of doing a greatest hits album has been suggested to us a lot over the years and I was always like, it\u2019s not the right time. Last summer when we got off the tour for \u201cHot Thoughts,\u201d I was looking at things and I thought maybe this would be a good time to do it. We put out 9 albums and I thought that this year was going to be an off year, where we were just basically writing and recording, so I was like how much work could it be to put out a greatest hits? That would be great for this off year. It turns out it’s a bit of work. For one thing we put out a new song on it. And it takes up a lot of time. And then this tour came up. It\u2019s not an off year, but that was the idea. I just wanted it to be a greatest hits record like some of the greatest hits records I had growing up, like there was a Cure record called \u201dStanding on a Beach,\u201d I hadn’t heard a note by The Cure until I got that record. And then I got the record and was obsessed with The Cure. So that was the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: And you know you\u2019re a great band when you have a greatest hits record, am I right?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: Right. [Laughs<\/i>]<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM:\u00a0<\/b>So it must feel gratifying?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: Yeah, it\u2019s something I never really thought too much about, and when it would come up I’d say nah nah nah. But it is interesting to look back after 9 albums and everything we\u2019ve done.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM. Does it get hard to make setlists and stuff having that much material?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: Yeah it does. On a show like this one where every band is playing shorter sets than usual, we\u2019re playing 45 mins to 50 mins and Sunflower Bean is playing 20 minutes, and with that it really is a compact set, so you kind of just end of playing mostly the best known stuff and maybe a weird one or two.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: Is it still fun doing the best known stuff?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: Oh yeah, it is. I was actually just talking to the band like what is their favorite song to play, and they were all songs from the greatest hits. It\u2019s just a strong collection, the songs that end up being there are there for a reason. A lot of times they’ve stayed in our live set the entire time since we put those records out. Even ones that came on on \u201cGive Me Fiction,\u201d that came out in 2005, we\u2019re still playing \u201cI Turn My Camera On\u201d just about every show.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: What\u2019s been inspiring you recently?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: There\u2019s a band called Tropical Fuck Storm, I love them. I haven’t got to see them yet and they’re coming this fall. They\u2019re from Australia,\u00a0 with the guy from The Drones.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: Have you heard of Amyl and the Sniffers? They\u2019re also from Australia.<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: No, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they\u2019re great. There\u2019s something about Australian rock bands. They\u2019re in a different world there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: It’s cool that there\u2019s still underground rock scenes bubbling up, because recently pop and hip hop have been taking over music. People think rock is dead and they just haven\u2019t looked hard enough.<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: I think you\u2019re right. And things are cyclical, I remember when you know, I was there when Nirvana came out and that was an amazing, exciting period of music, and all these bands got signed, some of which were great and some were not, that never would have had a chance to reach big audiences before. And then, maybe 6\/7 years after that, 8 or 9, 7, it had sort of deteriorated to everything was Korn and Limp Bizkit, and that was the only thing you could get on commercial radio. It sucked. Hip hop was sort of taking over again, there was no real rock and roll making a big splash. And then The Strokes and White Stripes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs came along. So these things, they come and go. Cage the Elephant even, are a big band that pop audiences might dig; I think they must because these crowds are huge. They are essentially a rock band, which, I love that about them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: Do you think you have a responsibility to talk about politics? Musically or not?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: I hesitate to say responsibility, but when you\u2019re feeling it, it’s good to talk about. It is a dark time right now. If there\u2019s ever been a time when there was that word, \u201cresponsibility,\u201d to do something political, in my entire life, that moment is now. People always think it’s the most important election of our generation, they\u2019re always saying something like that, but this genuinely seems different.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: What other things inspire you outside of music?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: Have you seen the new Apollo 11<\/i>? It\u2019s cool. I watched the first 10 minutes not\u00a0 knowing anything about it. I thought it would be a Hollywood movie, I knew it\u2019d be good. I knew generally what it was about. I was like what is this? It\u2019s so far out looking it\u2019s so beautiful, and then I went and read the Wikipedia page and it\u2019s all documentary footage, but when they were shooting the astronauts about to go up, they shot all this stuff in 70mm film and it looks insane, it looks like you\u2019re watching a Kubrick movie or something. And it kind of has the pace of 2001. It\u2019s a slow build. I\u2019m not the most patient person with movies, but if it\u2019s slow and intense, I get really into it and it really is cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: Do you think those cinematic elements play a role in your music?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: When we think about our records that way, a thing with a beginning, middle, and end, there\u2019s, if not a story being told, then a sort of arc to it. That last record we had this song called \u201cUs\u201d that I felt was maybe the best movie music we made. It\u2019s instrumental, I think you should check it out, it\u2019s a good one.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BM: What\u2019s next for Spoon?<\/b><\/p>\n

BD: We\u2019ve been recording a record all year, so we started in February and we would be working on it today if we weren\u2019t on this tour, but this thing came out and we\u2019re excited to have fun for the summer. So the tour\u2019s over August 30th and then we\u2019ll go back and hopefully finish it by the end of this year. I still got some more songs to write.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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