BUSH: Gavin Rossdale Interview, Desperados Stagedive
Gavin Rossdale Interview with DESPERADOS STAGEDIVE
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BUSH: Robin Goodridge Interview, Rhythm Magazine
Rhythm Magazine Interview with Bush Drummer Robin Goodridge
New album, working with Bob Rock and more from the Bush drummer
Interiview by Rich Chamberlain
Bush are back! The UK grunge poster boys have dropped a new album, their first studio effort in a decade, and we sat down with Robin Goodridge to get the lowdown on how one of Britain’s biggest rock exports came back from the dead.
How did the reunion come about?
“Gavin came to me and said he wanted to write a record. We went ahead and sat back and listened to the songs. He started playing me songs and we wrote about 40 songs and worked out which would be most appropriately Bush. He already had Chris Traynor who did the last tour with Bush and they found an LA-based bass player and that made the band a four-piece and we had a working unit.”
Did it all come together quickly once the band was in place?
“It’s taken a couple of years because we were signed to Interscope when we first started the project but we’ve since become our own record label. We believe that’s the future for acts that have sold some records because the contracts now aren’t worth bothering with. All that delayed us by almost a year. We had the album ready to go and had to go through all that divorce stuff. But all is good now. It’s good to be free and make any decisions we like. We can do whatever we want.”
The new album, Sea of Memories, has had a great reception
“That’s amazing. It’s the one thing you can never guarantee. We tried to stay true to what was us. Obviously we had two different band members so there was certain things that moved around a little bit but I think the guts of the band is definitely there.”
BUSH: Interview with Corey Britz
Corey Brtiz Interview with Luxembourg website 352luxmag.lu.
The bassist shoots the breeze on touring, having to dye his hair regularly and on the overwhelming support he has had from fans since joining Bush full time.
Interview by Stephen Lowe on 352luxmag.lu
Bush are now settled into a new format, they’ve released an album, the Sea Of Memories, which is going down well both in the press and with fans on tour. Now that there is a sense of permanence in the group, the future looks to be a little rosier than the in-fighting and reticence reported when the band’s reformation was announced early last year. ”The show in Luxembourg was great, we were well received it was a good crowd – a nice big crowd, we had a great time,” says the laid back Corey Britz of their recent stop over at den Atelier.
Bush’s label earMUSIC claim that the band have had to spend a lot of time on the road touring new album Sea Of Memories, and, as a result Corey has not seen many hotel rooms. Thankfully we get to speak to him, finally, during some downtime and the one time session player with The Calling has a frog in his throat and an elephant in the room. Being on tour ”can drive you crazy” says the charismatic axeman, but we all have a good time on the bus, hanging out and doing whatnot.” The whatnot in question may explain Corey’s rougher vocal edge, though he explains ”I do a lot of the backing vocals and we’ve had a lot of shows in a row, so you know, I’m just feelin’ the pain a little bit.”
Photo by (by Sharon Vandeput)
There is the unspoken trend that tours tend to blur, Corey (pictured far left), though, enjoys the promotion slog; ”every show is standing up to the last one, you know what I mean. Each show has it’s own little something, little quirks, that I am really enjoying,” coming to Europe seems to have resonated too, he continues, ”It’s really fun going from city to city, especially in Europe – to places we don’t play an awful lot, and seeing the different crowds and the different reactions. We had a lot of fun in Vienna, and I had a lot of fun in Luxembourg cause I had a bunch of close friends, who live in Germany, come to see us.”
Corey’s musical past, not the Julie Andrews kind, was of a session musician for hire. When a band needed someone to come in and get the bass part licked, Corey was their man. He had a stint with The Calling for a while, but was never really a full member – a good thing in my mind – it was through a session contract that Corey first met one Gavin Rossdale. ”A few years back, when Gavin was working on The Wanderlust, his solo record, I was hired for studio work. We became good friends and when he deiced to get Bush back together, he needed to fill the bass spot and, well, he called me up.”
BUSH: Gavin Rossdale Interview with UniScreen
Gavin Rossdale Interview with UniScreen
Gavin Rossdale spricht im Interview mit UniScreen über das Leben mit BUSH, Kritikern und natürlich Gwen.
