Hi frengeritas :)

 

Here's a new interview with Bo:

 

http://blog.limewire.com/posts/23716-hows-your-summer-going-mew/

 

Great new sig Olivia :thumbsup:

oooo :dance:

It’s a new page in the book of Meewwewewe

 

Aw, I love Bo...

 

Thanks Sofia :heart:

Thank you Sofia!! SQUEEE! A Bo interview.... these are ALWAYS good ;)

The video diaries depicting the making and mixing of the record have been both insightful, fun, and curious. Any plans to document the tour in a similar fashion?

 

No, but it seems like a good idea, so perhaps we will.

 

 

DO IT! YES YES YES!~

*grrs* sorry girls :\

 

double post

triple post...

^ haha Olivia :)

 

When not touring, I’ve been hanging out by my new pool in my garden. It’s 1.5 meters long and took a lot of breathing to get going.

 

hahaha I thought this was sooo funny. Bo in his paddling pool :D

Haha, Bo by his wittle pool in his garden in his house in Amager. :lol:

 

I had a garden with a pool at my old house... :(

where is this part ...

I found it :P

It is GREAT one ... he is a funny dude ;)

thanks for the link!!! bo's interview is always interesting :laugh3:

More nice piccies

 

http://www.gaffa.dk/artikel/33728

 

hehee, I actually like how Bo dissed Oasis in the interview! :laugh3:

Bless his soul. :blush:

@Jazzy: It says at mewsite you aren't registered.

haha I love it, it's totally opposite :lol:

Mew - Eskapismens musikalske malermestre

Of Mikkel Elbech

Photo: Casper Sejersen

Thursday D. 2009-08-06 hrs. 09:00

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After just under four years Mew again is album-current. GAFFA met the successful Danish orchestra in the studio in Brooklyn.

 

After just under four years Mew again is album-current. GAFFA met the successful Danish orchestra in the studio in Brooklyn, where Jonas Bjerre and Bo Madsen told about Johan Wohlert's exit, discussed Oasis and stupidification culture, just as they threw a look over the dreamy brushstrokes, they paint with in their music.

 

To be able to dream with open eyes all days has been a difficult art, but on temporarily four albums Mew has helped their world-wide audience on the way with specifically this. The fifth just got the idiomatic title "No More Stories=/Are Told Today=/I'm Sorry=/They Washed Away=/No More Stories/The World Is Grey/I'm Tired/let''s Wash Away", and when the calendar will show on August 17th, it's the result of two years' hard work that is turned loose in the music market. The recordings have taken place with producer Rich Costey, who also sat on the breakthrough album "Frengers "from 2003 behind the buttons.

 

On one for his part less busy day has Jonas Bjerre sat down comfortably comfortably in a corner of the Brooklyn-course's many premises. Here he tells fortælle-seeking away of music, he creates himself, the music he listens to and it, he for a while entirely did without a week in Japan - and first of all about the loss of the bassplayer, Johan Wohlert, who reduced the gold four to a trefoil, when he left the band in order to create Tea Storm with Pernille Rosendahl.

 

How did you react to John's exit?

- I had had it a little on the feeling in some time. You could feel that he wasn't so glad to tour all the time. That is what all of us have together brought it hard in periods, but he had it hard in another way. It was of course huge sad and difficult to accept, because we had interacted in so many years.

 

Was it like a couple in love that went from each other?

- No, for a couple in love that has gone from each other, often a little bitter feelings have for each other.

 

That was what you might also have an expectation that you might have after all.

- That is what we do not have not at all. It has there never been. There hasn't been anybody, who has been able to blame somebody for something - like this is the world just, and we have a quite good relationship with John today. We see him so often, we can do, but he is in a hurry also. He doesn't live so far from me, so that some times we drink a cup coffee together. It's not at all to the same extent as at the time, we worked together, and it's of course sad.

 

What has it done for the dynamics in the band that you suddenly were only three?

- That has hugely mattered a lot for our internal psychology. One is used to communicating in a particular way, and when one is only three, you have to find a new way to do it on. But that's life - you do not come through it, without having to adapt. Purely technical has it also meant something, because when they build up the skeleton of a song, there is to be something, who carries the progression, and that is what the bass does quite good - especially if one makes keynotes - thus there I have played very much of it a piano.

 

Musical art of painting

How much have you listened to names like Pink Floyd and Electric Light Orchestra, that you could turn to, when you have to describe your grand and very orchestrated sounds?

- I heard Pink Floyd a little, when I was little, because my father had all their records, but it not correctly is anything, I listen to. I think, it a little is too shame-s'ed to me. I like not so blues-akkord-progressions. I think, it has meant more for me that I have listened to Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour".

 

Thus you haven't belonged "Dark Side Of The Moon" from end to end and thought that, oops, where is this ... interestingly at least?

- No, not correctly. But on the last record we got really it there down the head, with that "oops, now you have become a prog-rock band", and we were compared to all sorts of progressive rock bands from the seventies that we really not at all didn't know. But there are some progressive bands, we have listened to - early Genesis and such things. But I am not as much to such virtuoso-prog-rock, where it's important to show how capable one is to one's instrument. It's more such a holistic thing, where the issue is imagination and colours and dreams.

 

Thus maybe is it easier to describe Mew with ideas from the visual arts than the musical ones?

- Yes, this seem I am very real. My attitude to music has always been that I have listened to it, and then I get pictures inside the head. And it's very different pictures everything after, what it's music, and it's a lot it that decides whether I like it or not. But it must not be such with castles and dragons that they see very much in the progressive world. It's about that the imagination is a mirror image of reality, and it is that makes it appealingly - it's a dream world, yes, but it's a reaction to something real. And it also helps to hold it down on the earth, even though there then still completely clearly is something escapism in our music.

 

Who thinks you are particularly interesting within the visual art?

- My two favourite painters are very different. One is Vilhelm Hammershøi, and the other is Francis Bacon, and the two are almost impossible to compare. I like the wildness and the movement in Bacon's paintings, and I like the static silence, the sadness and the there Protestant asceticism, which lies in Hammershøi's pictures. And the two contrasts think I also, you can find in our music. But that comes to sound a lot ... what is for a word, I am looking for ...

 

I am afraid to suggest anything ...

- Haha, no ... But consequently, comparisons will nearly always bring something down, because all is a little as such. And that can always be broken down in components, but it's a little just as eating a fantastic cake, and afterwards say that it's "flour milk meets meetings ...! It isn't so essentially for how the cake tastes - "would like to know what it consists of!" It's more the overall impression.

 

What is for a vacuum, music generally do fill?

- In order to examine what it did about me, I took a week, where I lived in the country in Japan a place outside Tokyo, where I didn't listen to music not at all. And there was neither anything music in the streets or something. It actually was a long time to do without music, and MOVEed occur clearly a vacuum. I think, we use music very much to manage our feelings - when one is in a special mood, one wants to listen to something music that maybe strengthens that mood. Also even though it's a sad feeling, because then you can feel that other human beings have had it in the same way - that there is somebody, who can understand one. In Japan I could feel that there were some things, I really didn't get rid of in the same way, and then I became obliged to be derived from with them in another way. It might for instance be going a long trip in the forest or running a trip - or just be thinking. It was very such a nature-week. I felt very much cleaned afterwards. But when that week had been got through, and I went back as far as the town, I also was back on my iPod.

They privileged Hellerup-boys

That it unusually is much nicer indoors than outside in summer in Brooklyn and New York, stays one probably once the memory of, when Bo Madsen leads out of the study and out on the street, where the sweaty heat greets one welcome straight away. Very relaxed settles he on the pavement, and the interview will be soon be in the pipeline. In a passing remark he tells about his new house on Amager and thus creates the acrid one that the remaining conversation puts to fill.

 

- I have just bought a house on Amager! It's very funny. We are from Hellerup. In the past jokes were made with that we were introduced as "Mew fra Hellerup". All the modern-hoppers are from Amager. Rockers By Choice and all the there tenacious boys. And we were from Hellerup. Such a little bøssoide somebody. Phlegmatic and quiet and quiet boys.

 

Have you had to fight against that image - the over-privileged boys from Hellerup?

- Well no, it has just been for fun, consequently. It may well be, which are somebody, who has chosen it from because of it, but there is probably also somebody, who has elected it to. But it has mostly just been like that a small, provocative slogan.

 

Does feel In you over-privileged?

- Consequently, we are all grown up in quiet and quiet middle class homes. And I have of course been privileged in comparison with that I just got permission to work with part of what I like to would, and in my life generally, but I do not feel that we just got it all given. We have worked and correctly hard against our band fought.

 

But what with the eternal thing with that one is a more reliable artist, if one comes from tight circumstances in a London suburb, than if one comes from Hellerup for instance?

- Yes, but the music I best like, often isn't such. It isn't glorified worker's class rock. It maybe is more those bands that have a lille-bit education and doesn't see it as a stigma, if they know something or other about the world. I think that music is a lot about reflecting on it, they do, and low abstractions, and it also is therefore, I am not attracted by such garage rock, because so thinks I have a very short appeal.

Out with the stupidification culture

When Oasis sings about "Cigarettes And Alcohol" like the meaning of life, do you understand so that the appeal in a message as that - without it necessarily is you, that appeals to?

- I understand well that it's a message that can appeal to young people that in the formative periods of their life are very susceptible face to face with such slogans. But I cannot understand it, when the issue is adults, who ought to know who they were themselves, and be a little more worrying in relation to that kind.

 

Why do you think that full-grown human beings accept these messages?

- That can sound snobbish hugely, when I sit here as a welfare Dane with my on the dry and like a comparatively cultured person, but I have just experienced the worker's class in England, and it's some other conditions, they have. There aren't many, there gets a chance to get a greater perspective or manage to read a good newspaper or see something good on television. It's frightening. But consequently, Oasis, it's just like that two bøvs. I like not their music either, and I think, it's part of the most vulgar at all. I think, Oasis very much is a picture of what it must not be. A stupidification culture in many ways.

 

Thus it maybe was very well hit with Oasis such as contrast to you?

- Yes, clear. The resisted by Mew, it's in many ways Oasis.

 

There are probably Oasis-fans, who would class Mew as being unreliable upper class music, and people always use the expression "dreaming" about your music, and Jonas talked about escapism. But what is it exact, they do dream oneself away from, when one has all the privileges?

- Escapism and concerning itself with the intellectual life and the feelings and the interior - that has in a way arisen from the desire to forget that you have to die, thus therefore escapism maybe is a very good expression. But I think, it's difficult to find some music that contains the whole meaning of life. That is what you cannot. Saw Oasis, they can make something music, which says "Hey, drink some beers, get something pussy and pounce someone on a bar - it thinks we is real fat and the meaning of life". And we can then think that life is very complex and contains incredibly many feelings, that surprise one all the time, and that we to try to adopt in music - and you maybe would like to be let off away from and into another world, because it may be difficult to relate oneself to this entire immensity that is in the world we live in. There is the here bombardment of feelings and influences from the outside. And it maybe is a very good picture of our music - a place, you can take a little away from the there constant search after opinion, which maybe arguably not there is.

 

 

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A Mew-record takes the time a Mew-record is to take

After the recordings in Brooklyn Mew continued the work with the album in studies in Manhattan and in Copenhagen. There were expectations that the album would appear up to six months earlier, than it actually happens, and in a follow up interview Jonas and Silas tells, what pulled out the process:

 

- The numbers do not turn sealed and sent into oppression before absolutely last second. We do not decide that "it was that number", and jumps on to the next. We twist and turn them everybody at the same time, and it probably is one of the reasons why it takes its time. But it isn't a new work form for us, but an old, we have followed since the times' morning.

 

Whether the unusually long album title explains the following ones=:

- We felt like having short song titles. That fitted well. And we'd also originally have had a short album title, but we couldn't find words that seemed magic enough. The final title is the text to the short intermezzo "Hawaii Dream", and when Home suggested that we used that entire text as title, it took not for a long time to get Silas and me on it. It was just as finding the lost piece in the puzzle.

 

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Long read. :thinking:

why is that in english and danish?

It was Google. I fixed it. :)

takk :nice:

 

very long, very good :D

:dance: Velkommen. :)

hey when you go to myspace.com there is a promotional add there for their new album :D