![]() ![]() ![]() It means the reverse of everything else, so using mesh and lace in that lyric means it’s good and bad. Mesh and lace is good and bad, black and white, up and down. We never knew that it would be a hit-not in a million years.īut “I Melt with You” has been a good friend to us all these years it pays all the bills and we’re able to go off and write any music we want to without worrying about whether it’s going to be commercially viable or not.Ĥ8 HILLS One thing I’ve always wondered is when you sing the lyric “Never really knowing it was always mesh and lace,” was that a nod to your previous album? We just always record the music we want to or how we feel at the time of the recording. We were unsure if we even liked it because it was so commercial compared to what we normally wrote it was kind of poppy. It just took a while getting around to it.Ĥ8 HILLS When you were recording After the Snow, did you ever imagine that “I Melt with You” would become such a major hit? But we always intended to do After the Snow. So it took this long because we did Retro Futura gigs with a lot of other ‘80s acts for a couple of years and then, of course, the coronavirus came along and stopped everything for two years. It’s funny because when we put the Mesh & Lace tour together, everybody was telling us it would never work, it would never happen, and people wouldn’t come to the concerts. Why did it take so long to tour After the Snow in its entirety? We’ve known each other since we were teenagers so the only change I suppose would be getting older, having lives outside Modern English these days, where we don’t live near each other very much anymore.Ĥ8 HILLS You toured 1981’s Mesh & Lace in its entirety six years ago. But we all just know each other very well so, as we say in England, we can take the piss out of each other, and it doesn’t matter too much. ROBBIE GREY Well, we’ve all aged a bit-that’s for sure. ROBBIE GREY We are playing the whole of After the Snow but also some of the early stuff, some of the noisier stuff: “16 Days” and “Black Houses” from the Mesh & Lace album, “Swans on Glass” and “Gathering Dust,” which were early 4AD singles, and some tracks from our last album, Take Me to the Trees, from 2016.Ĥ8 HILLS How has your relationship with the band’s three other original members changed over the years? I spoke to Grey about the show, the recording of After the Snow, and the incredible legacy of “I Melt with You.”Ĥ8 HILLS What can you tell me about your upcoming show at The Chapel? ![]()
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