Episode 92 - Field Music

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Sodajerker, Barber, Simon, Music Interviews, Liverpool, Songwriters, Musicians, Oconnor, Songwriting, Interviews, Music, Podcast, Brian

4.9 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Peter and David Brewis of Field Music chat with Sodajerker about the creative process behind their critically acclaimed album Commontime and songs from their back catalogue. In addition to describing the writing of 'Disappointed', 'The Noisy Days Are Over', 'Luck Is A Fine Thing' and 'Let's Write a Book', the brothers also discuss the time that the late Prince Rogers Nelson acknowledged their music on Twitter.

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0:00.0	The Hello and So Diyaker on songwriting. I'm Simon, I'm here as always with Brian. And joining us today are two talented
0:25.6	siblings from the northeast of England who are the collective driving force
0:28.9	behind one of the most inventive and interesting bands to have come out of the UK in the last decade or so.
0:34.0	There are sophisticated art rock stylings of their and them are devoted following over the years,
0:38.0	not to mention the approbation of the music press.
0:40.0	They released common time, their fifth album proper in February of this year and is being held by many as their best yet, and we'd be hard-pressed to disagree.
0:48.0	We're very happy to welcome David and Peter Brewers of Field Music to the show.
0:52.0	Our conversation will follow a brief summary of their career so far, which is starting now.
0:57.0	The Brewis brothers hail from Sunderland, Tyne and Weir.
0:59.9	They caught the music bug as kids in the late 80s, firstly via their parents extensive record
1:04.3	collection, then when Pisa, the elder of the two, received a drum kit for Christmas,
1:08.4	following which I think an envious Dave had got a 20-pound guitar from a catalogue. A little later they acquired their first four track and they were off and running.
1:15.8	They first performed as a band in their teens for a GCSC music exam, something we can very much relate to.
1:21.0	Indeed. With future field music keyboardist Andy Moore and cut their teeth playing doors and Led Zeppelin covers in local pubs. They played their first proper gig in 1999 as the New Tellers, along with future members of fellow Sunderland band Future Heads.
1:34.3	David and Peter spent the next few years developing their songwriting and studio skills,
1:38.4	which came to fruition in late 2004 when they signed with the London-based independent label Memphis Industries.
1:45.0	If I'm not mistaken they didn't actually have a name at that point.
1:48.0	And while making their first album, they were still working day jobs to support their fledgling recording career.
1:52.8	Field music's self-titled debut album was released in the summer of 2005 to a good deal of critical
1:57.5	acclaim and shone like a beacon in a sea of fashionable indie guitar bands.
2:01.2	Its 2007 follow-up, Tones of Town, was similarly well received, but a punishing
2:06.0	tour schedule took its toll and the Bruce Brothers went on a two-year hiatus, during which time
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