He sits really low doesn’t he…
 
Yes. I like drummers who have a low centre of gravity because there’s a lot of drummers out there that have this sort of high end and top stuff but few have that bottom. It’s hard to be a hard, tough, rocky player and be loose at the same time [...]

The album has been met with generally favourable reviews…
Yes, it means the world to us…
What about influences?
Yes, everyone has a trail of influences. Look at guys like Keith Richards. I listen to the Rolling Stones but I listen a lot more to Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson than you think and it’s like it’s natural to [...]

The album has been met with generally favourable reviews…
Yes, it means the world to us…
What about influences?
Yes, everyone has a trail of influences. Look at guys like Keith Richards. I listen to the Rolling Stones but I listen a lot more to Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson than you think and it’s like it’s natural to [...]

Track 10: Do You Realise
So we had these sessions with Dave Fridmann that sometimes last for ten days or two weeks or something like that, and sometimes we would have an agenda to at least get started with a couple of songs. And we had maybe one day to throw the beginning ideas of this [...]

How do you feel the new album differs from WHITE LADDER?
WHITE LADDER had a mood about it from the very first note to the very end. It was a seamless thing and just flowed from start to finish when you put it on. And I knew, even before the success, that it had that. And [...]

And Parr Street (in Liverpool), where most of PARACHUTES was recorded, must have good memories for you?
We’ve got good memories of Liverpool obviously from the last record. It was kind of different with these recording sessions because we just wouldn’t let ourselves get tired unlike the last album. There was much more gusto with this [...]