Happy 20th Birthday to Brave. We mixed it whilst watching Apocalypse Now on a loop. It was to become our Apocalypse Now. Massively over-budget and behind schedule, dark, strange, beautiful, tricky to follow, tricky to make sense of. When we mixed it, we werent sure youd like it. When we delivered it to EMI, it was met with confusion. When we released it, many of our fans deserted us. When we came to play it live, I was forced to assume the persona of a female in order to make it clear I was singing some of the songs as a girl. I began as a male priest and became an angry young woman, returned as a priest, threw myself from a bridge, and was reborn. It was an emotionally and physically exhausting performance. Its also a cow to play - musically and technically demanding, and imbued constantly with sound-effects and cues that tripped you up. When we came to perform it again last year for the conventions, I was surprised to discover it had become even more of a struggle to perform than before. And yet as Brave arrives at its 20th anniversary, its regarded by many of our fans as a classic - some say our masterpiece. It definitely has something about it. Even we dont know, quite, what makes it extraordinary. It has a darkness in its soul. It has ghosts... Happy birthday, you strange, brave, girl. h
Posted on: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:24:53 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015