Friday, April 26, 2019

Pheaturing Phile Alum Nick Heyward


Hey, kids, welcome to the Phile for a Friday. How are you? Well, it's official. Former Vice President and current Uncle Past His Prime Joe Biden has officially become the 100th Democrat to formally announce their campaign for president. He's only the 20th, but it might as well be 100th. Biden launched his campaign with a fourth-grade poem called "America is An Idea," in which he cited Donald "very fine people on both sides" Trump's reaction to the fatal white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as a reason to run. Biden is pitching his campaign as a return to the old halcyon days of four years ago, in which racists were only spitting vitriol about Barack Obama on Fox News rather than proudly in the streets. Here's his new logo...



It leaves it ambiguous whether he's a boy or a girl. The graphic design department of his campaign definitely leaves a lot to be desired. Biden also made it easy to riff on his treatment of women, which is quite literally a touchy subject. To many, he's so 2000-and-late, a corporate-sponsored dude out-of-touch with a Democratic base increasingly focused on Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, and ending mass incarceration and the War on Drugs. To quote the great Jackson Maine, "maybe it's time to let the old ways die?" We'll find out soon enough.
There's a crisis of a union brewing in the U.K., which is exposing the British media's racist tendencies. No, it's not Brexit: It's rumors of Prince William's infidelity. American tabloids have recently caught up with the whispers amongst the British aristocracy that His Royal Highness had an affair with Kate Middleton's friend Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley (which is somehow pronounced "Chumley" and somehow a real name). British tabloid The Sun has long referred to Hanbury as Middleton's "rural rival," because they both live on fancy estates in Norfolk, England. Back in March Middleton demanded Hanbury be "phased out" of the friend group, which many interpreted as a hint at an affair. Prince William's legal machine was spurred into action to suppress the rumors, and the tabloids found their content elsewhere. While this plot line in the soap opera called The Monarchy has been going on, rather than publish juicy stuff like a rumored affair, the British press have been spending their time and ink scrutinizing the pregnant Meghan Markle. Twitter is ablaze about the cheating rumors, with "Prince William" trending all day. People have been connecting the dots, theorizing that the deep dives into Meghan's every move were accelerated as part of a coverup plan. The double standard couldn't be clearer. Meghan was criticized for deciding not to have a photoshoot hours after giving birth, yet no one in the British press has criticized Prince William for allegedly cheating on his wife. Why slam a prince for cheating when you can bash a woman of color for existing? Let's also take this opportunity to note that Prince William is very bald now. According to The Telegraph, the focus on Meghan has been by Prince William's royal decree. Because the British are all about tradition, a tabloid did, in fact, find a way to make William's infidelity about Megs.


All this royal drama proves that the American revolution was worth it. I'm British and I'm saying that.
A self-own? A self-fulfilling prophecy? Ariana Grande kvetched about the bloggers and it's generating memes and blogs, such as the Phil. Pop star and large-sweatshirt-wearer Grande was unhappy with some moderate criticism of her Coachella performance with Justin Bieber, and tweeted-a-deleted a blurb about bloggers that manages to be both condescending and corny.

The tweet offended people not only because the usage of the phrase "them blogs," but because it showed a fundamental misunderstanding of who bloggers are and what they do. As a humble blogger who yearns to "feel lit inside," I can attest that most writers don't write blurbs about millionaires' tweets as part of a vast conspiracy to destroy their lives. Bloggers blog because we are humans with bodies... She also seems to say that blogs have no purpose, which is likely not her take when the coverage is complimentary. The Ariana Grande vs. Them Blogs feud was officially on, and people mocked her tweet with their own. It's a tweet-long version of that Daenerys Targaryen face. Don't upset bloggers. We're equipped with... blogs. Or give us money and we'll gladly stop blogging! Ariana Grande's net worth is $50 million so if she wants me to get off "them blogs" she can throw even one mil my way. Thank u, next.
The American Revolution hasn't stopped Ivanka Trump from pretending that she's a princess, spending Mueller Week in Africa and taking pictures with women like they're for her college application. One particular tweet from Ivanka's adventure in what her dad calls "shithole countries" stood out for highlighting her special way with words.


"It was my privilege!" That's a tweet that would seem simply polite and innocuous coming from a non-Trump, but for the hotel heiress-turned-White House advisor, it's accidentally the first time she told the truth. It was definitely Ivanka's privilege, but not all the women were impressed. Despite shithole-gate and beginning his political career by questioning the Americanness of the first African American president, Ivanka insisted that Daddy would be "inspired" by the continent he definitely thinks of as one country. "I've been deeply, deeply inspired by my trip here. And I think he will be as well," she told the Associated Press. On her trip, Ivanka also revealed that she declined her father's offer to be head of the World Bank. What makes her think she's qualified to oversee reconstruction and development around the planet? Is it.... her privilege?
There are many times when a social media post goes viral out of sheer luck, or because it's just bonkers enough people can't look away. But there are plenty of other times a post makes the viral rounds because it articulates a common truth in a refreshingly pithy way. To this very point, a Facebook post recently went viral for how well it laid out the extreme and contradictory pressures placed on working mothers, and mothers in general. In her now viral post, Sarah Buckley Friedberg listed all of the impossible tasks women are expected to complete as mothers, all while maintaining mental health and a chill and positive attitude. The post goes in on how soon mothers are expected to return to the workplace after giving birth, while simultaneously breastfeeding and getting their pre-baby body back. On top of all of that, moms are expected to keep a clean and decorated house, and maintain the family schedule. On top of all this, children also grow at extremely quick rates and require plenty of clothing and medical care. She also pointed out the pressure to for moms to dress cute and present themselves well so they don't get memed​​​​​. She capped off her post by reiterating the fact that after receiving this barrage of impossible messages, mothers are also told to "slow down" and savor their time with their kids, since life moves so fast. "Get off your phone, turn off the TV, and enjoy your life. Enjoy your kids. THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES make sure to love every minute of life because before you know it all of this will be in the past. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to lean OUT. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk." Friedberg's post quickly gained traction for how relatable it is, and at the time of writing it has over 18,000 likes and counting.
If I had a TARDIS I would go to Madame Tussaud’s London Wax Museum in the 1930 but knowing my luck it'll be right after the fire where these creepy and lifelike mannequins would be damaged and it'll freak me the fuck out...


Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones III is back near the border. I hope he's prepared...


Hmmm... I guess so. Wonder how long he'll stay working at Fox wearing that t-shirt. This just in, Biden has updated his logo...


That's better. So, this is real... this is from a Brazilian condom ad...


That's funny, but also sad as America is made out to be be a laughing stock around the world. Ever notice the Rock is always trying to button his sleeve? No? Take a look.


Did you see Avengers: End Game? Well, I don't want to spoil anything for you but this is how they bring everybody back...


Hahahaha. Hey, do you like Oreos? Have you seen the new flavor that's out?



Bet they taste good. Yum! Hey, do you know what the Mulluer Report looked like when it was handed over to Congress? Look...


Hahahaha. And now from the home office in Port Jefferson, New York, here is...


Top Phive Comparisons Between Aussies, Americans, Canadians And Brits
5. Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad. Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad. Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad. Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.
4. Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates. Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club. Americans: Believe that people should look out for and take care of themselves. Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.
3. Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer. Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness. Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them. Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.
2. Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box. Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels. Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels. Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.
And the number one comparison between Aussies, Americans, Canadians and Brits is...
1. Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball. Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby. Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball. Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in.




Haha. If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. So, there's too old guy who seems to get into fights wherever he goes. I thought it'll be fun to have him back on the Phile to see if he got into a fight this week. So, please welcome back to the Phile...


Me: Hey, Pork Chop, how is it going?

Pork Chop: Hiya, Jason.

Me: So, get into a fight recently?

Pork Chop: Yesterday.

Me: Ha. so, what happened this time?

Pork Chop: I kicked a guy out of my friends bar because he had previously been banned and managed to sneak back in. Outside, he slipped on some brass knuckles in his pocket and said, “If I’m going to get kicked out, might as well be for something.”

Me: Ahhh. You can't argue with that logic. So, what did you do?

Pork Chop: Knocked his fuckin' lights out, of course.

Me: Of. Course. Take care, Pork Chop, and be good. Pork Chop Eddie, kids.



Le Duc Anh 
December 1st, 1920 — April 22nd, 2019
Loosely translated, his name means "He who is the leader of those who would follow, and will rule over the will of the people, and also looks like a duck."




I’ll let you guess which one of the things she’s holding makes the most noise... So, there's this friend of the Phile who is a teacher and wants to quit. She wanted to come on to the Phile and tell us what's up. So, please welcome back to the Phile.


Me: Hello, Ms. Laststraw, how are you?

Ms. Laststraw: Not so good, Jason.

Me: What's wrong?

Ms. Laststraw: Two things happened at once. After four years of teaching seventh grade a girl who complained to me for an entire semester of being harassed and groped brought a pocket knife to school and threatened a boy with it if he grabbed her breast again. SHE was expelled. I reported the incidents to administrators, school resource officers, ans guidance counselors. They ignored her, me, and her other two teachers until she became that desperate for him to stop. Assholes.

Me: Damn. What was the other thing?

Ms. Laststraw: A "troubled" student (read: future felon, now a current felon) saw me walking from the convenience store with my niece. He followed us and found my house. Started riding by, throwing stuff in my yard, yelling obscenities, etc. School resource officer said to go to the police; they said to go go him. Final straw: he climbed on my fence and shot my dog with a paintball gun. I threatened to quit on the spot so they moved him from my class. Then over Easter break, he stabbed and ruined my inflatable decorations. I am done.

Me: Don't quit. This school year is almost over. How is the girl from the first story?

Ms. Laststraw: Okay, you're right. a few more weeks. I have to go back to school, thank you, Jason.

Me: You are welcome. Ms. Laststraw, the teacher that wants to quit, kids.



In his morning tweet storm Wednesday morning, the President of the United States (Donald Trump, if you've been lucky enough to have forgotten) revealed that he doesn't know how a whole bunch of things work. He said that if Democrats begin impeachment hearings, he'd go to his handpicked Supreme Court. That's neither how separation of powers nor the impeachment process works.


He accused the Mexican military of  firing on the National Guard, threatening war with America's southern neighbor. The exchange of fire didn't happen either. Least consequentially... but most amusingly... the president also indicated his lack of understanding over the complicated government process known as "phone calls."


Reporter Robert Costa published in The Washington Post that Trump told him that he is against having his aides testify to Congress as the legislative branch attempts to conduct its constitutional duty of oversight over the executive. Trump takes issue not with the implication of a constitutional crisis, but the fact that it is insufficiently clear that Costa made the first call (???). Costa made no secret of the fact that he called first. Trump's tweet unfolds like a logic puzzle, insisting that he didn't call Costa, followed by the parenthetical "(Returned his call)!" Who is going to tell him that returning a phone call is also a form of making a phone call? He that is without sin among you, let him make the first call.



The 97th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...


Salman Rushdie will be the guest on the Phile on Tuesday. Look forward to that. So, a friend of the Phile has something to say about Biden running for President. He's a singer, patriot and renaissance man. You know what time it is...


Good afternoon, humans. well... from what I’m seeing here, my friends... it appears the Left are making the same mistakes they made leading up to the 2016 election... nearly identical to the ones that got them DJT as their President. Misplaced faith in Bernie Sanders (OR... the wonton hatred OF Bernie Sanders), rallying round old faces and paper tigers, useless displays of hatred for Trump (we get it, you hate him, and...). Whatever, I’ve all but exhausted myself trying to explain not only how they might best stand a chance at defeating Trump... but why what they’re currently doing, won’t work. Simply repeating methods that failed already won’t work. Joe Biden is too old and hasn’t enough traction nor support to pull it off. Bernie is as well, too old and for the most part, is an unapologetic socialist/elitist with no real plan. Just a handful of platitudes and rhetoric over ideas that he HimSELF has admitted “won’t work." The Left still can’t get past I Hate Trump... after that, I’m afraid they’ve got little more than poorly organized shouting. So to those people... those poor confused souls who believe rowing back to the Titanic is a better plan than rowing away from it, I say this... you went with a tired play book last time... you were convinced that he couldn’t possibly win... how’d all THAT work out for you? #Trump2TheSequel.




Phact 1. Some people use sheep placenta as a hair product.

Phact 2. Batman Returns is inspired by an episode of the 1966 "Batman" TV Show in which the Penguin ran for mayor of Gotham.

Phact 3. Convicted serial killer Albert Fish helped the executioner position the electrodes on his body before uttering his final words, “I don’t even know why I’m here.” It took two jolts to kill him.

Phact 4. Owsley Stanley singlehandedly ignited the psychedelic scene in the 1960s by producing over one million doses of LSD from a makeshift bathroom laboratory in Berkeley between 1965 and 1967.

Phact 5. In order for Coca-Cola to continue to operate in its current form, the company has a special arrangement with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to allow them to import dried coca leaves from Peru (and to a lesser degree, from Bolivia) in huge quantities.



Today's pheatured guest is a Phile Alum and is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist known for being the frontman of the early 1980s band Haircut 100 and for his solo career. His latest single "The Stars" is from his album "Woodland Echoes" and is available on Spotify, iTunes or Amazon. Please welcome back to the Phile... Nick Heyward.


Me: Hey, Nick, welcome back to the Phile. How have you been?

Nick: Thanks, Jason, good to be back.

Me: So, last time you were here we talked about your recent CD "Woodland Echoes" which was one of my favorite albums of last year.

Nick: Thank you, Jason, it's a rare thing that anybody has it in the top anything.

Me: Did you record any other songs when you did this album?

Nick: Well, I recorded 25 songs and picked 12. I had a lot to pick from but some didn't go well, so I had these twelve "chapters" that made the story work. It felt like a story when I was putting to together, it had a beginning middle and an end.

Me: I don't know if I asked you this last time but where did the title of the album come from?

Nick: Sarah, my financée, and I went to a rental place in the U.K. which was unlike any other rental, it was made of real wood. Normally with rentals the flooring is laminate and the walls are magnolia and everything is one as bland as possible so if they mess it up it can be painted magnolia again. But this was lovely, she actually made the cottage herself and she built it out if ask wood and it had a solid oak staircase in this tiny cottage and all the beams were exposed. Even in summer when we opened the windows it was filled with bird songs. It was beautiful, it was in this little valley by a pub called The Crooked Billet which played a lot of jazz. I once heard Wild Willy Barrett playing his guitar and I thought I know that guitar. It's that kind of place where people play at local pubs. I saw Martin Stepheson play there one night and he was brilliant, anyway, I digress.

Me: I interviewed Martin on the Phile ten years ago. He was cool. I need to get him back on here. When did you start to write for this album?

Nick: It was about 2011 or 2012 I suppose. I thought I'm going to start a song and I'm going to finish a song. I'm going to write it down, print it out and call it "Love is the Key By the Sea" and so I worked on it at home on the keyboard, playing around with to and got it and started that recording process.

Me: So, does the album have a story behind it?

Nick: It's funny because slipped through the metaphor pretty quickly when I was asked to explain the album to my promoters. She said can you write me a brief sympathies of what it is so I was meant to write it was recorded such and such, these musicians we used, this was a process but I sort of went into it's a story of a man who although he found universal love didn't find romantic love and lived in a beach hut on the seaside. His life has kind of past him by but he had to leave the beach hut to find romantic love. No one can find romantic love from a beach hut unless that person is on the Internet. Even if they're on the Internet he have to go meet them at some point. He gets the hand of time on his shoulder so he leaves and turns around and looks at the beach hut which he's been in most of the time by the sea almost thinking it was a lighthouse but it was actually a beach hut. He turns around and it's a cuckoo clock and he realises he's a cuckoo. Then he flies off the mountain and the story goes on. I thought what am I doing? My promoters are going to go nuts when they hear this. That's my interpretation of it, and I didn't realise it was my interpretation when I was recording it. I was just doing what I did.

Me: There was a twenty year gap between your past two albums. Did you retire or have a really bad writers block?

Nick: Creation Records dropped me and it wasn't the time of the Internet so I couldn't just go recording, I needed to have backing. After Creation I had the decision to go and do the whole thing, which I've been doing through the 90s and 80s, which was making a record, getting dropped, making a record, getting dropped. It was quite an exhausting process to go and get another record deal. I had to go and make demoes to pay for myself, and normally I run out of the advance at that particular time. It was going there, believing in myself and launching myself. I didn't have a manager at that time and if I did have a manager they would have exhaust their connections and I'd have to get another one and they would exhaust their connections. There was a time right at the end of the 90s when guitar music was dead so it was not a good time for me as an artist, there were no record companies that were going to sign me. That stayed around to about 2001 and it became an unlikely thing I would get signed. I was still writing, in fact I thought I was going to become a writer of novels it was flowing so much. I wasn't taught, I didn't have the background for writing so getting it into form was quite difficult. It wasn't like a song which I know what to do. I didn't even know the writer had an editor. Then the Internet stated to happen and MySpace which was great as an artist. I was sharing music, I was okay with that. I thought this is great, I don't have to sign to a record company. 

Me: So, how do you think social media helps you as an artist out now? I bet it helps a lot, right? 

Nick: Yeah, it's reconnecting with my fans because up until that point when Sony and Creation dropped me they are my data base which is my connection with the fans and I had to buy the data base which is quite a lot of money. I couldn't afford to buy the data base so for many years I was not connected to the fans at all. I thought how do I get to them, I didn't even know to tell them there was a gig, there wasn't the Internet then. I play a few gigs and there was absolute no one there because they weren't promoted properly. There was no way to letting my audience know, whoever would walk past would see it. That all changed throughout the decade with MySpace and now with the data base I don't have to pay, I have an audience now.

Me: So, are we gonna have to wait another 19 years for your next release? Haha.

Nick: No, its interesting really, two great things that worked out are my son became a sound engineer, which I didn't pray for. LOL. But he's a brilliant sound engineer and my partner, Sarah, runs a record company so it's really lovely now. It's not rocket science putting out records so we're putting out so we can put out singles because we can. There's nobody stopping me doing that. There's no chance of them being hits now, it doesn't matter, I put them out as a single because I love the way it looks and feels, and I love what it is so we put out a ten inch clear vinyl single just because we love the process of doing that.

Me: Cool. Okay, last time you were here we talked a little about Haircut 100  and I have a few more questions about that band. Do you get sick about talking about Haircut 100?

Nick: It does get like that actually, I had thoughts where should I not talk about it, because the more I talk about it the more it's keeping it alive. If I do these shows where I'm just focusing on the early part of my career because I'm Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 and I'll sing those songs that people know, which part of my set I will do but it's part of my set at the end and everybody expects it to be at the end where it is. Just like reverse order when I do play live, I don't know why that is but it's backwards, the career is backwards. I do the new ones first and the old ones last. I've tried it the other way but the evening feels a bit odd. I thought about making a decision and not talking about it. It's a bit like I'm still laying down bird seeds and the birds are coming but I'm not too happy with the birds that are coming to the bird feeder, so don't lay the bird seeds down in the first place, so the birds won't come to the bird feeder. It's not like I don't have find memories like the band has, they must have fond memories of that time, it all depends how some people perceive their past.

Me: When you were here before I think you talked about you guys started off playing funk. Was that what you were listening to back in the day?

Nick: Well, it's easy for Les because Les was a funkster, he was into Shalamar... lots of bass players are into funk naturally. Graham was into the Clash so there was no funk there and I was into the Talking Heads and Earth, Wind and Fire. I wasn't into the Beatles, I discovered the Beatles funny enough quite late, after Haircut 100 was happening, and I discovered them and thought where have I been. LOL.

Me: No, shit. Hahaha. So, why did the band break up?

Nick: Well, we had the funk side of it and then we had the more singer songwriter side of it.

Me: Did you guys feel that you were doing different kinda things than bands at the time? I think so. 

Nick: It was the influences of the time. Orange Juice was quite as strong as us. If I took Les and Graham to see Orange Juice and had a camera at that gig, and said, "If you want to know why I'm dressed up as a boy scout and look this way, well, there's guys in Scotland doing the same," I feel that happens in a country, when we get music in different ways. It's like the pyramids being built, there are pyramids being built in Egypt and there are pyramids being built in North America and no one knows why this is happening, it's happening at the same time. This was the birth of indie guitar music in a certain way which then made the Smiths, they would of heard Orange Juice, they would of heard of these bands up in Scotland, they would of heard of bands in Manchester, everywhere all over England. This is the way it goes, it happens so quick. I remember seeing a picture of David Byrne where he's wearing Fred Perry and I had to have Fred Perry. You have to wear Fred Perry in a certain way, if you wear Fred Perry shirt and you have it with a twelve string, I think he had it with a cherry red, anyway this picture was one of those life changing pictures. Probably the same kind of picture when Noel Gallagher saw Jonny Marr, it was one of those pictures where I was really like that's it. I did that and then developed my own version of it. That's music, that's what happens, it's complimentary, because everybody is inspiring everybody else all at the same time. That process becomes a cultural wave of Britfunk. Because we were living in London we were so close to what was happening and going on, we could sense it right away, the waves coming in, we were an oyster capture and we knew what the next wave was going to be.

Me: Was it easy to get gigs when you guys started out?

Nick: The only gigs we could get was with a band called the Tropicanos, and we ended up working with their brass section because they played tropical songs.

Me: Did you walk away from the band? If so, why?

Nick: That was it, I did walk away. There was a rehearsal, it was a Spinal Tap moment where my band turned on me. Les and Graham turned on me, sided with Marc on the stuff. It was an awful time. I don't know if you ever was sort of bullied or ganged up on when you were younger, it doesn't feel right, at that moment I thought I should fight and tell them to all fuck off or maybe even fight them or put them in their place, or walk away. I chose to walk away. I went to this rehearsal, they've already been releasing these songs, they were already writing the lyrics, Marc was going to sing it. I just stood there and thought what am I going to do, sell the merchandising at the merch table? At that point I was strong enough because I didn't know this was beginning because I worked so hard, and was having bit of physical exhaustion, which was making me not as mentally strong as I could be. Walking away from things more than fight I got emotionally stressed, I didn't know why it was I was feeling this way. I walked out of that rehearsal room and thought my two best mates in the world have ganged up on me and they couldn't look at me in the eye, they were writing and rehearsing stuff and didn't want me in it so I did that silly thing of walking away from the band I started. We talked about it since, not all the guys, some of the guys tried to deny the rehearsals took place which is unfortunate. It's a tricky subject and I'd love to speak to all of them at once and work it out, but that never happened.

Me: You didn't need those fuckers anyway, you had a good solo career. But the next day after you quit did you think what now, now I'm gonna have a solo career maybe?

Nick: That was the whole musically split. I wanted to work with Geoff Emerick, This was the plan, I wanted to sound as a band like "Imperial Bedroom," that was what I was aiming for our second album to be like. I was working with Geoff Emerick and I couldn't get the guys into the idea, they stayed with Bob Sargeant, which I don't know what loyalty they had to him. Marc was very close to Bob, Bob had brought Marc back into the band I think. The new day for me was like I don't want to do the music business but I'm going to the studio and work with Geoff. When the song "Whistle Down the Wind" was finished it sounded so exactly like I imagined. It's what I wanted Haircut 100 to be.

Me: Pino Palladino, who now plays bass with the Who plays bass on your first solo album "North of a Miracle." How did you first meet him? Was he your choice or Geoff's choice?

Nick: I first met him in a local demo studio somewhere in Nashville. I asked Pino what he was doing and he said he was helping out a mate who was doing an album with a half covers and half of his own and he was called Paul Young. By the time I've done "North of a Miracle" Paul had done "Wherever I Lay My Hat." He just plays on "Whistle Down the Wind," not the whole album.

Me: Nick, I love the song "Kite" from the album "From Monday to Sunday." What can you tell us about that song?

Nick: That song fell together so quickly and easily. It wasn't the normal way I recorded. When I was playing the bass first because all I had was this metronome when I said to Ian Shaw who was recording it, please can you give me a beat, I want to play something before I go home that I like. I just wanted to do something. So he sent me the beat and I just played to that. Then I played the acoustic and made a rhythm out of it and I went to the studio, back to the booth, then I went and put some bass down.

Me: That's cool. Nick, thanks so much for being on the Phile again. Please come back again soon. You are one of my favorite guests and you need to be known more in the states.

Nick: Thanks, Jason, that's lovely. I'd love to be back soon. I live in Tampa, you live by Orlando, we need to get together. Take care.





That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to my guests Laird Jim and of course Nick Heyward. The Phile will be back on Monday with Bryan Adams. Spread the word, not the turd. Don;t let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.





































I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon

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