Eno's Talks About Working on The New Roxy Music Album - Fri 19th May
Eno's Talks About Working on The New Roxy Music Album
19 May 2006
The most anticipated of this wave of collaborations - if not, perhaps
by Eno - has been his return to the Roxy Music fold. For the band's
album, scheduled for release in the autumn, he provided two songs, at
the band's request, and ended up making a keyboard contribution to
other tracks. "The strangest thing," he said, "was that they all called
me Eno. In those days I was always Eno. I rather liked that. When I was
at art school no one called me Brian. It was only when I went to
America that people thought it was rude to address me by my surname. So
I became Brian."
Working again with Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul
Thompson, there were other reminders of Roxy's heyday in the early
1970s. "The band hadn't changed one bit in terms of its internal
dynamics. Just the same chemistry. It made me wonder if people can ever
change the chemistry between them. After all that time, the
relationships seemed exactly the same."
But he will not be joining them on stage. "They didn't ask me, I think
because they know I wouldn't. I don't fancy it. I basically don't like
playing live and I'm also worried about people saying, 'Oh, right, he's
going back to the old band, then.' It was a big decision for me to do
those two days in the studio with them. Not that I don't like them. I
like them all. They're nice people. But because I thought, 'Oh, fuck,
I'm going to have to spend years talking about this, and it was only
two days.'"