Gavin Rossdale chats to I Like Music
When you're in a pub you'll hear a break up song and you're in the pub and you hear a song and you're like, 'ooh I like this song' and it's a naff song, but you're in a pub. My ambition for that song is to get played on pub juke boxes.
ILM: I saw Bush live many years ago at Net Aid in 99 - fabulous and I've always enjoyed your lyrics as they resonate and they're poetic. Please can you describe the Gavin Rossdale process of writing such bloody good music please? Does it tend to be lyrics first or melody or totally random each time?
GAVIN: Well, I think it's really about getting out of the way of your self. Putting yourself in a situation where you've got your music, your guitar or bass or drum machine and just committing yourself to being there and letting it flow. I think that sometimes, if you come at music with too much of an agenda… once you have an idea of what you want and maybe a title it's just playing through that even if it's 50 times, you just get inside the song.
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