Paolo Nutini chats to I Like Music

ILM: It's produced by Ken Nelson (Coldplay/Gomez). What did you learn from him?

PAULO: Just his way of working, I think it was a fresh thing for Ken as well and he said that, because usually he comes in and he's got the band and they play these songs over and over and he usually goes with the band and that was the same case with us, but at that point the guitarist had come in at the start of the writing. And it was different and he wasn't there when we first started, he came in a couple of weeks in to it, and I think for Ken as well, the fact that we were evolving as a band was different for Ken. He's worked with Gomez, Kings of Convenience and Coldplay and they were quite tightly knotted by the time they reached the studio So I think it was different for him to work with a band who were evolving as we were. But for all of us it made it that little bit more enjoyable.

Ken was really refreshing. You know a lot of producers I've met and worked with and a lot of them thought they were a barrel of knowledge and that they knew how to make a hit record, and Ken held his hand up to says he doesn't really have a clue, but he knows what he likes to hear, and it's definitely a team effort, which I don't think should be a question, and Ken didn't make it feel like that was a job or a question and was just the way he did it. And I think that was partly the reason we decided to go in with Ken.
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