monologue
bass man Bob Fairfoull has left Idlewild. read that a few days ago. we don’t really know why and idlewild don’t help you understand, they have never seemed to be keen on revealing too much about themselves. which is fair, sometimes.
Roddy Woomble, our favourite scot man, wrote this on idlewild’s official website. i liked it so much i decided to copy and paste some of his diary.
5/10/02
“First of all, I don’t wish for this to become some carved in granite/what is this style statement/barrage of words. I’m just going to write something that all you people who read this thing might be interested in.
It all got a little weird for us last week. Last weekend I was in Brussels, I’m admiring the plants in the dressing room, Rod’s working out Whitney Houston’s ‘I wanna dance with somebody’ on guitar, Colin’s reading his Graham Greene novel and nobody knows where Bob is.
One week later, we’re in a massive barn in Newcastle. I’m sitting here typing, Rod’s sitting here listening to a radio drama, Colin’s outside with Ally and nobody knows where Bob is
and that’s what it’ll be like from now on.
I’ve no interest in talking for Bob, it’s unfair and he’s my friend, albeit a wayward, estranged one. All you need to know is that being on tour was ruining him, and I’m sure if you find him and ask him he’ll agree that he needs some time in his own environment to understand exactly what he wants. I’m proud of every concert we played with Bob on bass even if they were sometimes awful […]” - Roddy W.
if you wanna read the rest visit http://www.idlewild.co.uk/frames.html
Posted on Sat, 5 October 2002 at 20:23
