Steve Lamacq On Beady Eye Interview

It’s been a busy week. I can feel my eye-lids drooping.

Though not as strange as standing in a corner of Beady Eye’s rehearsal room in north London, while Gallagher and Co cranked out the opening songs of what will be the live set on their impending tour (unless they re-jig it, they’ll be starting with album-opener ‘Four Letter Word’, a chugging, live-for-the-moment call to arms).

In conversation – which was the reason we were there, to record an interview for 6Music – Liam is as happy and energised as I’ve ever seen him. He gets mildly sulky on only two occasions (once over whether the name of the group is any good and then again when the conversation drifts perilously close to his brother).

But then he’s back in an instant. His trains of thought are still legendary, his sense of pride in his work, both defiant and modest.

He talks like a man who has nothing to prove, but at the same time still wants/needs something to invest his graft and his love in.

Coincidentally, BE are in the same rehearsal complex where the KAISER CHIEFS did a few days the other week. I know this because a) Gallagher listed all the other recent residents “McFly, Feeder….UB40…they stank the place out” and b) because the following day I was chairing a session with the Kaisers at Abbey Road studios as part of BBC Introducing’s Masterclass day.

you can hear that BEADY EYE interview in full on 6Music on February 21

Source: Steve Lamacq's Blog goingdeafforaliving.com

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