S2E25: William Orbit
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt chat to producer extraordinaire William Orbit about his career and his new record 'The Painter'. It's his first brand new album in over 8 years and is out in August.
In an open and candid conversation they also discuss how art saved him, the dark secrets of recording bass, working with Blur on their '13' album and, of course, Madonna...oh and gangster squirrels.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Bills, they don't always have to be bad. |
| 0:03.0 | Imagine bills with no hidden fees. |
| 0:06.0 | Bills with low prices on the latest phones, |
| 0:10.0 | bills that save you from that new foam fomo. |
| 0:14.0 | Or bills that could even save you a bit of cash. |
| 0:18.0 | Leave bad bills behind and switch to Giff Gaff for the latest phones at low monthly prices. Giff Gaff are up to good. |
| 0:27.0 | Terms apply see giftGaff.com slash terms. |
| 0:32.0 | Morning, Gary. |
| 0:33.0 | Morning Guy. I can actually hear you talking in the room next door. |
| 0:38.0 | No, I know you've already complained bitterly. |
| 0:41.0 | I've had three calls for reception and something in writing. |
| 0:44.0 | Where are we? |
| 0:48.0 | We are in Lucerne with a bus that's broken down in Paris so welcome to our one. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah you flew in yesterday from Paris. |
| 0:56.0 | I flew in yesterday I I left the bubble for a day to see family which was really really |
| 1:01.6 | lovely but it's so stressful it's so stressful once you |
| 1:04.7 | leave the family for your other family we took three trains to get here but we were |
| 1:11.2 | at least carrying your case so if you never made it I was |
| 1:14.3 | going to put your case on stage he couldn't be here but he sent his case yeah it's actually more animated than some bass players I can think of. |
| 1:25.0 | We are up in the sort of the Alps, aren't we? |
| 1:30.0 | In the foothills of the Alps. |
| 1:31.0 | We're in this strange hotel, they put us out of town up by a ski lift, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rhino UK, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Rhino UK and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.