![]() I sort of have to go through hell every time I go on stage! But actually, well it was Andrew. I always say I don’t think I really should be doing this. Why do you think you were initially shy, and what broke you out of that mentality? You mentioned keeping your amp’s volume down. We kind of wanted to make clinical dance music with guitars.” But you can still almost hear the missing notes. Or the idea of having loads of polyrhythms and then taking bits out. But other than that, we were basically trying to transcribe minimal techno onto guitars. “There were some bands from mainly Chicago, actually – like this band Sweep the Leg Johnny that was a big influence. And the genre, of whether you want to call it that or not, of math rock. And we were obviously interested in odd time signatures. That’s when the Foals that we all know came alive, basically. I had my amp really quiet a lot of the time! And then once Andrew left, obviously there was a lot more room to figure out what I was doing. “So, I just sort of filled in the bits that they didn’t do. I remember listening through the door and it was like, 'Oh, good lord! What am I going to do?' And between him and Yannis, our only singer, he’s probably the best guitarist I’ve ever seen, or one of them. But there was also another singer then, Andrew Mears, who also played guitar and who also is a phenomenal guitar player. “I joined in 2005, right at the beginning of Foals. We were basically trying to transcribe minimal techno onto guitars… we wanted to make clinical dance music with guitars What was it like for you in the early days of Foals? How did you approach the band, guitar-wise? How did you blend your playing style with the goals of the group? It was a Wine Red Mexican Strat with a humbucker on the back. “I was like, 'I have to buy a guitar from that street, and I have to buy it from this shop.' I just saw it. Now it’s just full of restaurants and there’s, like, two guitar shops left. ![]() Sadly now, like a lot of other places, it has been gutted by gentrification. And I got it from Denmark Street in London – it used to be like Tin Pan Alley in the UK, where they wrote all those songs. “Well, the first guitar I found, other than my mom’s classical, which is what I grew up playing, was a Mexican Stratocaster.
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