{"id":60408,"date":"2020-03-01T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=60408"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:54:41","slug":"neil-arthur-blancmange-superstar-talks-with-essentially-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/03\/neil-arthur-blancmange-superstar-talks-with-essentially-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Arthur, Blancmange Superstar, Talks With Essentially Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blancmange, the hugely successful British electronic band have a new album and a tour to go with it. Kicking off in Scotland on May 1st and working their way across the U.K. to finish in October. To go with the tour they have a new album \u2018 Mindset\u2019 which releases on May 22nd. Blancmange music has been used in so much recent music by La Roux, LCD Sound System and Hot Chip. So influential is the band and their music that electronic superstar Moby described the, as \u201cthe most underrated electronic band of all time\u201d, high praise indeed. Since Stephen Luscombe was forced by illness to stop touring or recording after 2011\u2019s \u2018Blanc Burn\u2019, the band\u2019s evolution has continued with Neil Arthur at the helm and Essentially Pop were lucky enough to chat with him this week about the new album, the tour and even ABBA, who\u2019s \u2018Day Before You Came\u2019 they superbly covered. It\u2019s an honour to get a glimpse at what motivates one of our own electronic superstars.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

EP: It\u2019s 40 years since Blancmange formed and yet the music seems to still gain plaudits. Very recently Moby described you as \u201cthe single most unappreciated electronic band of all time\u201d. Do you feel unappreciated?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NA: (laughing) No, no I don\u2019t. I\u2019m lucky and grateful to meet people through the music. I\u2019m very pleased that people come along, listen to us, see us and obviously buy the music . I\u2019m also flattered that someone like Moby would say something like that, of course. Wether we are under appreciated I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s great that Moby listens to us, but honestly, I\u2019m very pleased that some people listen to us.<\/p>\n

EP: It\u2019s interesting that of all the music eras the eighties still seem to inspire new artists and feature in new music. Blancmange music features in lots of stuff at the moment. How do you account for the longevity of the eighties music in general, and for your music in particular?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: Well I think there\u2019s an interest in electronic music because of the way that technology has developed, so not just eighties music as there was a lot of electronic music going on in the nineties, going on in the seventies, and of course in the sixties. I think that some of the synths we used are very sought after these days because of the sounds they make , and maybe some of the techniques and the recordings that were done in the eighties. Everything is cyclical isn\u2019t it, things get referenced and hopefully not just repeated exactly as they were. The ideas are taken by artists and musicians that take them on to another place , recycle them and add elements to them. There\u2019s a lot of referencing historically in all different walks of life.<\/p>\n

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EP: You mentioned then the advance of technology. That\u2019s probably affected electronic music more than most. Do the advances in technology make life easier for you, do they inspire your creativity or do you hark back to simpler times?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: That\u2019s a big question that one. Technology can help us. For example, years ago, moving on from when Blancmange first started, initially we were using tape decks trying really desperately the whole time to get anything sequenced. So the first really big breakthrough that came in all those years ago was when MIDI came in for us and we were able to synchronise various instruments, synthesisers and the electric guitar together. Of course now you can work out of a laptop and some of the sequencing programs I use, like Ableton and Logic, it\u2019s amazing what you can do with those using the basic instruments let alone all the gear you can plug in and then subsequently plugging in your own synthesisers. It\u2019s mind boggling but in total answer to your question none of that is any use unless you\u2019ve got an idea. You can work at something on a kazoo and record it into a phone; if it\u2019s a good idea it\u2019s going to stand the test isn\u2019t it. It doesn\u2019t matter how much equipment you have or how many layers you put on it if it\u2019s not a good idea, no technology is going to make it any better.<\/p>\n

EP: Talking of good ideas and things that stand the test of time, \u2018Happy Families\u2019 is now lauded as a classic recording. Do you struggle to make new fans see the band for what they do now and not as something looking back to the eighties? How do you continue to grow musically, looking forwards rather than backwards?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: I don\u2019t have any problems looking forwards at all and if people want to join us on the journey, and thankfully they do, then that\u2019s where we\u2019re going. I\u2019m not one for nostalgia, many people know that. I\u2019m very proud of what Blancmange did. We did three albums and were with a big record company and we were fortunate enough to have a lot of success with their help, but I have released many albums since 2011, getting on for 10 or 11 albums, 9 of them Blancmange albums, and I\u2019m more interested in what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow, creatively as well, I am much more for that. I will reiterate I am really, really proud of what we did and I understand that when we play live, for example, we have to mix it up. I thoroughly enjoy this aspect of it, I really like mixing the new with the not so new, with stuff from more recent albums like \u2018Wanderlust\u2019 or \u2018Unfurnished Rooms\u2019 for example, but also mixing that with, and thank you very much for calling it what you did, I wouldn\u2019t have said that…mixing it with things from \u2018Happy Families\u2019 and, believe you me, the audience that we play to seem to, infact I know they do, absolutely embrace all of it without a doubt but I wouldn\u2019t do it unless I could do new stuff as well. I really wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

EP: You mentioned how many albums you\u2019ve released. Since reforming you\u2019ve been prolific. Has writing become easier or are you just finding that you are full of new creative ideas?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: Well, in a way I\u2019m off the leash because I\u2019m not writing singles. There are singles on all of the albums we\u2019ve done, they happen to be on there, but that wasn\u2019t what I\u2019ve set out to do whereas in the eighties the emphasis, maybe not so much on the first album, which we were lucky enough to have plenty of singles on, but with the other albums it was, and it wasn\u2019t just us, most record companies would expect artists to be producing 2 or 3 singles and then you\u2019d have an album and the other tracks would be supportive of it. We never saw it like that but that was the game we were in and we had to accept it was part of what we had to do. Even if we were saying to the record company our next single is going to be an ABBA song. ABBA, for example, at the time, weren\u2019t seen in the light that people see them today, they didn\u2019t shine as bright as maybe they do today. We used to love them, genuinely love them, but there were many people who were not that keen on ABBA. So when the record company asked and we said: \u201cwell we\u2019ve got a single but it\u2019s an ABBA song\u201d, they were like \u201caaaah right ok\u201d. We tried to have as much fun as we could when we were making our singles back in the day so in answer to your question about creativity. I can just write when I want and fortunately, and I\u2019m really lucky in that sense, I spend most of my time doing what I want to do. There are very few jobs where you get to do that. I\u2019m a very, very lucky man.<\/p>\n

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EP: You spent time working in film and tv as well and even released an instrumental album. Is that something you\u2019d like to do more of?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: I would, but at the moment I\u2019m concentrating on the Blancmange project so with \u2018Mindset\u2019, the album due for release when we tour in May, and then hopefully beyond that, I\u2019ve got quite a commitment and I\u2019m also working on a few other projects. The last album came out in the Autumn and I\u2019ve got another instrumental album out at the moment, \u2018Nil by Mouth II\u2019, and I\u2019m working on a project with Vince Clark and another one with Liam Hutton so there\u2019s quite a few other things going on at the moment but yes, there may be some more film work as well.<\/p>\n

EP: You mentioned the tour; you have an extensive UK tour coming up. There seems to be a festival size gap in proceedings between May and September. Can fans hope to see you at any of the Summer\u2019s big events?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: Funnily enough I\u2019ve just been speaking to my manager today about two festivals but I\u2019m not in a position to say where at the moment but that time is also put aside for more of the recordings I\u2019ve mentioned actually . As you said we do some dates in May and then there is that gap and then, my goodness, we\u2019ve got a lot of dates in September and October.<\/p>\n

EP: So, with the new album out in May, what can fans expect?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: Yes, it\u2019s coming out on May 22nd. I\u2019ve been working with Benge again, Benge Edwards, so there\u2019s lots of unusual analogue synth sounds on there. Phonically and pace wise it\u2019s definitely more upbeat than \u2018Wanderlust \u2018 in terms of its sound and tempo. With the songs, I continue in my observations of what I see around me: truths, half truths, looking for answers to things…always searching. For example, there\u2019s a song called \u2018Antisocial Media\u2019, then there\u2019s \u2018 Diagram\u2019, I\u2019m asking some to lay out their plans for me, show me transparency, show me the truth.<\/p>\n

There are other ones dealing with aspects of virtual reality, so I\u2019m telling a story where some of it\u2019s real, some of it\u2019s not. Can you tell me which bit is and which bit isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a reflection of what goes on around us really, we digest information which we see but we kind of suck up information all the time, it\u2019s always around us. Some of it\u2019s misinformation, some of it might be the truth but some of it isn\u2019t so I\u2019m looking at that type of thing. Some of it\u2019s dealing with very, very personal things, stories I\u2019ve been told and things I\u2019m aware of and I\u2019m looking into things very closely at times.<\/p>\n

One of the songs is called \u2018When\u2019, it\u2019s slower paced, it\u2019s the last track on the album actually. The chorus goes something like, \u201cwhen is anything about what it\u2019s about\u201d, when somebody offloads all their baggage on to you and you\u2019re really feeling emotion coming at you, you\u2019re receiving that but you\u2019re thinking is this really what they\u2019re talking about or is there something that\u2019s really affected them and they\u2019re just offloading this on to me and there\u2019s some subtext that I\u2019m not quite grasping. So that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking at.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re only songs, I just put the observations into songs. There\u2019s some poetry in there and some musical rhythm and melodies and what have you (laughs)…<\/p>\n

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EP: It sounds fantastic, thought provoking…I can\u2019t wait. We live in a strange world now with so much social media around us. Nowadays when you go to a gig it seems people are more interested in filming the band and looking at you through a mobile phone than they are in simply listening and absorbing the depth of the creativity in front of them…<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: I\u2019ve written about that as well. It is quite interesting isn\u2019t it. I understand that people want to capture a memory in a medium. \u201cI was there and this is what I did\u201d, but if you\u2019re looking at something through a tiny little screen, sometimes you can\u2019t absorb all the other things that are going on around you. It\u2019s interesting how we can end up being wedded to the technology and machines almost like I was there and this is what I\u2019m doing, for example on social media, but it\u2019s very easy to put a post up and everything looks rosy but if you scratch away at the zeroes and ones and get through the digital information of what lies at the surface and peel that away. What\u2019s really going on, what\u2019s really happening?<\/p>\n

EP: I love to hear your insight, can\u2019t wait for the new album. It\u2019s been an absolute pleasure to chat Neil, I\u2019ve been a fan for many years and could chat for hours but I\u2019m sure you\u2019re very busy. I wish you all the very best for the tour and the album and I\u2019ll look forward to coming to see you at the Forum in Kent. You\u2019ll be exhausted by the end of the year but I bet you can\u2019t wait…<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: I love the gigs. I absolutely love them all. I\u2019m going out with some really great musicians again, with Oogoo Maia on his synthesisers, and Liam Hutton on electronic percussion, who I mentioned earlier regarding the project I\u2019m doing with him…it\u2019s going to be really good fun and if the audiences are anything like the ones that we have been lucky enough to have come to our shows in the past we\u2019ll all have a great time.<\/p>\n

EP: Which part of it do you enjoy the most Neil – the touring with the approbation of the fans or do you prefer the writing and creation…if you had to choose?<\/b><\/p>\n

NA: If I\u2019m honest I\u2019d write, I\u2019d definitely write. The only thing I don\u2019t like about touring is being away from home and I don\u2019t like the travelling but the gigs are great, and I\u2019m really looking forward to them.<\/p>\n

EP: Thank you so much for your time Neil!<\/b><\/p>\n

The new album \u2018Mindset\u2019 will be released through Blank Check Records on May 22nd and details of the release and the tour can be found on Blancmange\u2019s \u00a0official website<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blancmange, the hugely successful British electronic band have a new album and a tour to go with it. Kicking off in Scotland on May 1st and working their way across the U.K. to finish in October. To go with the tour they have a new album \u2018 Mindset\u2019 which releases on May 22nd. Blancmange music has been used in so much recent music by La Roux, LCD Sound System and Hot Chip. So influential is the band and their music that electronic superstar Moby described the, as \u201cthe most underrated electronic band of all time\u201d, high praise indeed. Since Stephen Luscombe was forced by illness to stop touring or recording after 2011\u2019s \u2018Blanc Burn\u2019, the band\u2019s evolution has continued with Neil Arthur at the helm and Essentially Pop were lucky enough to chat with him this week about the new album, the tour and even ABBA, who\u2019s \u2018Day Before You Came\u2019 they superbly covered. It\u2019s an honour to get a glimpse at what motivates one of our own electronic superstars.<\/p>\n

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