American Songwriter Interview

Photo: Matthew Reeves

Here is an interview I've never seen before that Richard Butler did for American Songwriter, which was published in August 2020. Richard talked about Made Of Rain, the inspiration for the title of the album, and a couple other topics. An interesting thing I heard from this was that Richard wished a string quartet was added at the end of "The Boy That Invented Rock & Roll."

https://americansongwriter.com/psychedelic-furs-richard-butler-on-the-darker-drops-of-made-of-rain/

Concert Ads #15

The Psychedelic Furs played two gigs at The Nashville Room in London, England on November 29 and 30, 1979. On the first night the support act was Subliminal Squad, and the second was Soul Boys. The concerts were a disaster, and here's an excerpt from the PFurs biography Beautiful Chaos, page 87:

"Massively over-crowded within, bad-tempered latecomers clogging the North End Road outside, both shows were a total fiasco, marred by bad sound, scarred by zero security.

"The first night, flying glass from the audience struck [Vince] Ely while he was playing; the second, the manager of the support band, The Soul Boys, laid his fists into [Duncan] Kilburn."

Tickets were £1.50. The November 30th concert happened on John Ashton's 22nd birthday.

At the Nashville in 1979. Photo by Terry Lott.

Wrong Train Official Video

Just now The Psychedelic Furs released the music video for "Wrong Train" and I remember back in September or October the band mentioned a video would be made for the song. Then some time later a behind the scenes clip for the music video was posted on Richard Butler's Instagram, and it showed Richard sitting in front of the camera smearing paint on his face. After that I hadn't heard more information about the video, until last Friday The Furs announced it would premiere a few days later (which is today).

The "Wrong Train" video was filmed in black and white and it mainly shows Richard Butler up close with his face covered in paint, him typing on a typewriter, and shots of him singing. The music video was directed by Hans Neleman and according to NME he was inspired by Richard Butler's own paintings. The video is awesome, Richard Butler looks absolutely great, and I have to say it is better than the music video for "Come All Ye Faithful" to be honest.

Here's The Psychedelic Furs' tweet which has the link to the music video. https://twitter.com/pfurs/status/1366366158442569729

By the way, the scenes of Richard with the paint totally reminds me of the album cover of Love Spit Love's Trysome Eatone.

"Tell me things you used to do

I'll pretend you wanted to

We wear these little things away

In the end, there's nothing left to say"