Eskimo Joe Frontman Kev Temperley: 'Chris Martin's A Weird Twisted Freak'

Eskimo Joe's frontman Kav Temperley was recently seen wandering the streets of New York talking gibberish.

He hadn’t lost the plot, though an early flight to New York the day after a big night at the ARIA Awards didn’t help his state of mind. Rather he was reciting the lyrics to New York backwards as part of some technical wizardry for the song’s video. “I was ridiculously jetlagged, majorly hung over and had to learn how to sing backwards,” Temperley says. “It’s not easy, especially if your head isn’t quite there. Running around New York for a day listening to the same song backwards over and over didn’t help.”

Temperley didn’t uncover any satanic messages listening to his lyrical handiwork in reverse. “Most of them were just gobbledygook, like ‘hairy socially’,” Temperley says. The sing-backwards effect was used most famously in Coldplay’s The Scientist. Chris Martin did it so well he’s been known to repeat the trick on stage. “Weird twisted freak,” Temperley says. “It’s really hard.”

Source: http://news.com.au