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PART 1.
I recently caught up with Matt at the Lazarus building,
the former Victorian department store close to London’s
square mile that serves as his company’s headquarters.
Although it was a sunny, if chilly, winter’s day
outside, inside TheThe’s womb-like basement studio,
all was hot, dark and spooky. Oil lamps turned and incense
burned as small red lights from the various banks of equipment
blinked on and off through the smokey darkness. Matt,
in cheerful mood, was busy sitting at the mixing desk
compiling Silent Tongue, the first volume of The The’s
film music for CineOla, the French soundtrack company
newly acquired by Lazarus. I sat at the back of the room
on an old leather sofa sipping a mug of fresh coffee listening,
watching and waiting for him to take a break.
I should explain, whilst I’m sitting here waiting,
that I first became aware of Matt’s music whilst
assistant editor at Cinema Magazine in the early 1980’s.
I’d often listen to his early albums over the office
stereo system as foreign films played silently on my nearby
video monitor. I was struck then by the cinematic nature
of his music and surprised that it hadn’t been used
in more films. Hopefully this new release will remedy
that.
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David
Bowie has invited TheThe to perform at the Meltdown festival
he is curating at London’s South Bank in June 2002.
More details to follow soon. Also, the Interviews section
in the ARCHIVE
is now open. From today we’ll be digging through
the Lazarus vaults and transcribing and publishing old
interviews. If you have any old interviews in your possession
that do not appear here then please pass them onto us
so we can publish them.
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