S2E23: Bernard Butler
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy are in Sofia as their European tour with Nick Mason continues. But they still find time to speak to the brilliant Bernard Butler. A career as long and as eclectic is hard to find and in this fascinating conversation we discuss shared influences, his time in Suede, the stunning hit single ‘Yes’ with David McAlmont, his inner drive to move on and find new musical challenges, and his remarkable new album with Jessie Buckley ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’ which is out on June 17th. Bernard is a great man.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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| 0:32.0 | Hi Guy. Hi Gary. Oh that was the first time I think for a long time that you said |
| 0:37.5 | high first. Is that how it works? There's not order to these things but I think it's being the impatient |
| 0:44.8 | person that I am I tend to say hi first but hello. We're not like Anton Decker you don't have to stand |
| 0:50.1 | the same way around every time. No no or speak the same way around every time. No, no. Or speak the same way. Well, in many ways we are like Anton Teck. |
| 0:58.0 | Anyway, so we're in Sophia today and you've seen everything yesterday you managed to see everything and a marathon of sightseeing |
| 1:07.5 | Any money follows my Instagram knows that I'm a big sightseeing person |
| 1:11.8 | But I'm always jumping out and seeing whatever I can and it's |
| 1:15.0 | quite a beautiful city incredible cathedral and a brilliant art gallery discovered |
| 1:19.6 | some fantastic Belgian I'm sorry one I'm talking about't even know where I am, what day is it? |
| 1:25.0 | Bulgaria, but, remember, Uncle Bulgaria from the Wambles. |
| 1:29.0 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:30.0 | But we've been as far out as Istanbul, haven't we, in the last couple of years? Yeah, we've been as far out as Istanbul haven't we in the last couple of years? |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah, we've literally in two weeks we've driven from the very tip of like you know up in Scandinavia right down to Asia |
| 1:40.3 | And it's been incredible to see that journey happening before our eyes and the different cultures and to be, well, you know, to see what those audiences are like around Europe. |
| 1:52.0 | And we really need to talk about who's on today. We've got |
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