His singing has been characterized as a "speak-sing voice that veered between amused croon and panicked yelp."

I’ve moved on from that but it still remains a strand and there are elements of that still in me.’Catching the renewed interest in the post punk period that they blueprinted and also sounding oddly modern because of a whole glut of bands who have robbed their sound blind Magazine still sounded futuristic.”˜That’s the same artist we used for ”˜Shot By Both Sides’.

Howard Devoto was the word writer with the smarts who influenced singers like Morrissey.

It has to be dealt with... people seem to want to watch them.

I certainly hope it will go on.HD: Ha ha haha that’s a lot of questions!HD: [Laughs] Well, I always used to like to say, 'I like to try to make the songs mean as much as I can.' I considered working with a female singer, a surrogate who could deal with the up front stuff.

Frankly, I would have been shocked and disappointed if the new album hadn’t taken an unflinching look at what age hath wrought. ... That is the question that faced Howard DeVoto in the spring of 1981, when, four and a bit years after walking out on The Buzzcocks, he pulled the plug on his next group, Magazine. Now, Bob is quite a religious guy so I read that in a certain way, but also it just struck me as an interesting thing for him to say. It came from an interview I read with Bob Dylan where he was talking his album of Christmas carols which I must say I haven’t heard much of! I had ideas but it simply never dame together. When I listen to something it’s likely to be something I definitely like, like Tom Verlaine- I still love his guitar playing but in truth and it’s nothing personal but for some reason I listen to very little music.’”˜(Laughs) That stared with something I read. And not doing it as much and having had a long period when i wasn’t doing any performing... all of that kind of helps to renew my energy for the whole thing.HD: Oh, partly.

I picked up on this phrase of Peter Shelley's when reading about Linder (Sterling, former partner, friend and visual artist).

Yes”¦’I am always keeping things, notes and lines and stuff like that and it’s kind of waiting sat there and I will add a bit now and then and then it tends to be built on the music. ”˜Well not sure if it’s a debate, you can read it as straight forward word play on the idea of your mortality.’The best concert I have ever seen was Magazine. I think I did get bullied. He said this line in the middle of the interview, and it has become more or less the chorus of 'Physics': 'Religion isn’t meant for everybody.' In sense he has been part of Magazine over the years and it seems right to use him again. One of his pieces was on the sleeve of the 'Shot By Both Sides' single and another on the ‘Give Me Everything’ single which came out in 1978. It’s a very different perspective now. I myself, I have changed quite a bit and when I read the introduction I thought, ”˜Wow I would really like to give a modern context to this with the music’ and Dave come up with the music on that one.’Howard Devoto was the word writer with the smarts who influenced singers like Morrissey.

It’s taken us the best bit of a year to write and record the album, so, we’re going to try and make the most of that and see where that takes us. I worked hard to wring out something I would like. View Howard Devoto interviews, articles and reviews from Rock's Backpages: The ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism. I go through phrases when I don’t do very much sometimes it gets all my attention.’Their comeback tour and gigs in Manchester were a triumph and the ever brilliantly, awkward figure of singer Howard Devoto was great to see. Wasn’t this the band that told us years ago, “We must not be frail, we must watch”? We have a lot of affection for the music we did in the past, and we figure that’s what people like about us, so we’re not going to be perverse and do a jazz album or some folk music. It’s a philosophy book, hard to classify by John Gray and in it there was this phrase ”˜the worst thing about progress is that it is not an illusion, it is that it is endless’. So much was on the line back then that your very material existence depended on it when you were scraping an existence from music, scraping along month to month and going all out to try and make what you were doing a success and there was this kind of idea of keeping up with what everyone else was doing and what was the latest thing, what was the latest sound and all of that and you would keep modern as it were. I read it and thought, ”˜hey lad, you were really going for it then!’”˜One keeps up something of interest but the truth is John is that I’m no interested in music now really.

One needs to look no further than the sheer earnestness with which these now old geezers are trying to look cool with silly bits of hair under their lips, etc for an idea of how truly shit this album is.

We tend to go by with long periods of time when we don’t talk. They were a group without a style, or at least a group whose style consisted in a profound lack. We got this identity and this sound and that’s what we work with. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus.HD: Words are there to try and make people prick up their ears, and agitate their hormones, and get them fretting or get a bit of electricity going. Music Interviews Search JoyZine with Google Site Search!

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