185: Jack Hues (Wang Chung)!
Craig & Friends
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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The lead singer and co-architect of the wonderful Wang Chung joined me in London to discuss William Friedkin, the push-pull of art v. commerce, “Dance Hall Days”, creating the score to “To Live And Die In L.A.” before seeing a frame of the film, working with John Kalodner, Geffen Records, band dynamics, his solo works, Bob Dylan, the value of being challenged by art, “Primitif”, the spectrum of perfectionism, producing other artists, fiddling with Fairlights, collaborating with Tony Banks, band-name origins, Miles Davis, self-criticism, Jack’s jazz combo, reconnecting with Wang Chung partner Nick Feldman, the impact of “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Make believe is not pretend We might be the wrong man |
| 0:07.0 | It never starts, it never ends Welcome to Craig and Friends |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Craig and Friends Welcome to Craig and Friends |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, this is a lovely chat and once the mics go on then you start freezing up |
| 0:29.0 | No, that's why I like to roll into it, because we are having a lovely chat and I'm here with the wonderful Jack Hughes from Wang Cheng |
| 0:36.0 | And terrific and very varied solo career including his latest album Electrocoustic Works and Primitief |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, okay, I want to make sure I pronounce that correctly |
| 0:45.0 | Very good actually |
| 0:47.0 | It's like French inflection |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, well you're a lover of language |
| 0:51.0 | Very much |
| 0:52.0 | And French in particular, right? |
| 0:54.0 | I find words and the sound of language, the musical aspects of language |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, yeah, really interesting |
| 1:00.0 | That's interesting, did you say you were always sort of keenly aware of that? |
| 1:04.0 | You were growing up |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I think so |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, I mean, I guess I got more sensitive to it and I was at university studying some of the more modern pieces |
| 1:15.0 | You know, one of my favorite pieces by Le Charna Berrio called The Symphonia |
| 1:20.0 | Which has a lot of sort of spoken word effectively over a kind of crazy orchestral background, you know |
| 1:26.0 | And yeah, I always love that piece and there's some stock house and pieces as well |
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