Mercury's In Retrograde

If you write songs about your private life, people are going to ask you about it…

I’ve chosen not to do a lot of press. That’s how I’ve dealt with it. It’s been an effective strategy. And although it has the appearance of being personal, it’s still embellished. It’s based on aspects of my life, for sure, but I haven’t just written a diary.

Bloc Party seem to polarise opinion. Some people love you, some hate you. Why do you think that is?

I do think that as a band we do that. Some journalists don’t believe that the praise that Silent Alarm got was justified.

What do you mean?

We get criticised for things that no one else does. No other band seems to be scrutinised the way we are. I’m not sure how much I should talk about this. How do you feel that we’re perceived?

That you’re too clever for your own good, perhaps?

Maybe it’s because we do see ourselves as different. I don’t really understand it. Maybe it’s like Radiohead. They’ve never won the Mercury Prize even though they are by far the most interesting British guitar band around. It’s because they don’t come across as particularly personable. Or like Yannis Philippakis from Foals. People say he’s a bigmouth just because he’s a smart guy who can talk eloquently about what he believes in. People don’t like that. They’d rather have some crap rock band who don’t have any opinions.

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Aku sangat suka mereka berempat. Mungkin mereka nampak sedikit gay berpegangan tangan in the picture above, tapi mereka genius dalam menghasilkan music. Dimaafkan. Hope to see them live once upon a time in the future.

Global Warming is seriously not cool.