Following on from the above, Mr Hook did another live Q&A on instagram today with Jack between 4 and 5pm UK time.
I can't remember much of what he said last week. I remember he mentioned he was reading Debbie Harry's book which he said this week he has nearly finished. He's gonna move on to Roger Daltry next.
This week he talked about Gorillaz.
Said he tends to do his guest bass parts in a local studio and send them back to the artist. He did the Liminanas tracks "by satellite".
He says that in addition to the two Liminanas tracks (which incidentally I posted in the Gorillaz thread recently) he's gonna do another one with them, this time with Iggy Pop on vocals.
Said he was gutted when the "other mob" did Californian Grass live with Iggy as he had always felt Iggy would be good for that song, and they beat him to it. So he's looking forward to this.
He said this time he went to Damon Albarn's studio in London to do his bit and he was really nervous. But he said he spent an hour with Damon, and he was smiling more when he came out than when he went in. He said they were just getting to the point where it was Peter Hook from start to finish when Damon threw him out, and he's happy that Damon got the right amount of PH on the track. Lots of praise for Damon's workaholic approach. Says he has known him since the days when he drank with Damon and Alex in London (Grouchos? EDIT: actually he says Soho House in this chat, but on p490 of his [paperback] book he says he drank with Alex James at Grouchos. Both venues are on Dean Street in London). He said Damon was happy to have a Manc in his corner back then as it was during the Blur v Oasis days.
This Gorallaz track was his first time recording with his new Yamaha bass.
Hook says he doesn't have a home studio any more and he wishes he did as he wants to record some ideas and send them to Pottsy for new Monaco stuff.
He mentioned
ICB being a sticker that a shipping company put on his bass amp and he just thought it sounded cool, nothing to do with "Ian Curtis Buried".Talked about no longer shipping his gear around the world as it's a waste of time and money.
Says when he plays live with the Light he never wants to leave anybody disappointed.
Fave gig venue: Irvine Meadows in California, although he remembers Terry Mason being held in cells (!) beneath the stage when things kicked off one time.
Confirmed that Moby had to show NO how to play New Dawn Fades when they played Area 51 back in 2001 because they hadn't played it in so long.
Asked if Revenge is coming back, he said he had a few plans for Revenge but nothing to do with the group (evil chuckle). He talked about having some problems wanting to be a complete songwriter with Revenge, but is proud of some of the songs. Says Monaco causes him enough problems now so he probably won't bring Revenge back.
Fave cities to play (pre The Light): Chicago - always a great reaction. But Paris never was (but is now with The Light).
Currently listening to lots of Glam Rock: early Roxy Music, early Eno, John Cale. Today he'll listen to Cockney Rebel's first album.
Also talked about Jack's bass cover yesterday of Motorhead's "Roadcrew". Talked about Lemmy being a good songwriter for other artists incl. Ozzy Osbourne.
Said Ceremony & IALP were not a "bridge" between JD and NO , they were simply JD songs that were recorded/released by NO. But he did describe Movement as a bridge between the two bands. Says DNE was the first song written as NO.
Asked about PCL v Lowlife he talked fondly of the Emulator recreating orchestral sounds on PCL. But he says by Low Life they were properly established as NO, and he feels the album represents NO's identity better.
Fave gig in Ireland? You guessed it "Kilkenny, recorded for Radio 1 in '81 or '82" ('83, I think he means).
Said Belfast was weird as the crowd would segregate into two groups. During the gig they'd forget about it and merge, and at the end go back to being two groups again. Says Barney said he would never play there again. NO were due to pay the Titanic festival more recently but it got cancelled , so Hook reckons Barney has been true to his word and never played Belfast again.
Recreating NO albums live, he uses Ken Evans in Australia for the electronic stuff as he's not allowed use original sounds/tapes from NO. Says it's expensive, and he may not do the NO albums live again as they lose money in rehearsals, so would only break even afterward which he "can't afford" (really?).
Oh that reminds me, last week he said his car was "Californian" so I guess that means it's a Tesla??
That's about all I can remember.
You can watch the whole thing for the next 23 hours on Jack's Instagram "stories". After that, it's gone forever.
EDIT: Oh just remembered from last week, Hook was asked about working with Jonathan Demme and Kathryn Bigelow.
He said both were great. Suggested Demme was a bit of a "dirty dog" as he kept turning up with a "new assistant" - always a young lady. He had only been in Manchester a few days...
And on TBTHOG which they also filmed in Manchester, he says a female friend phoned him to say she had lost her contact lens and was stuck at the local petrol station, unable to drive her car. So he had to nip out in full TBTHOG video outfit and drive her car home from the petrol station.
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