I think we have a first post-settlement Hook interview.
"...in 2007, they wanted to carry on, him & Steve... I wouldn't have minded, ...the problem was how they did it."
Plus ca change...?
Hook considers a fiction book:
Also says Technique
is his favourite album. Not clear if he means fave NO album or a bigger picture.
An Australian radio station also did a looong interview with him. Sounds like he was on his mobile phone in an airport. It's pre-recorded so it may be a few days old.
I get the impression that it's a small rado station and the presenter just lets Hooky waffle on and agrees with everything.
Anyway it's
HERE. From about 16 mins to 40mins, non stop.
I skipped through it a bit but, things that caught my ear:
It was Bobby Gillespie's idea to play the albums (I can't find it now. somewhere between 16 and 24 mins)
20 Mins: the only people who don't seem to enjoy what I'm doing is the rest of the band.
25.50: "Here we are in 2017 being as difficult as we possibly can with each other"
27 Mins: "When I watch new order now, it doesn't look like they're a happy little camp"
33 - 36 mins: Warners collector series is happening, with albums being released as box sets like the Led Zep II reissue. Hook says it was his idea and Warners said yes. Says a photographer has taken pics of the gear used to make each album.
36 mins: Spotify: you can dial up all your albums and play them in their entirety (uh oh, cue forum Spotify arguments!)
38 mins: Trying to persuade Pottsy to do a Monaco LP...in January. "I am a creative musician".