Paul McCartney, Youth plan more projects as The Fireman

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Paul McCartney, Youth plan more projects as The Fireman
By Mayer Nissim
Published Friday, Apr 19 2013


Youth has teased the possibility of more collaborations with Paul McCartney as The Fireman.

The duo paired up for 1993 debut Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest and 1998's Rushes, before reuniting for 2008's Electric Arguments album.

Asked if there was a possibility of a fourth album, Youth (Martin Glover) told Digital Spy: "Hopefully, yeah. There's other projects I can't comment on at the moment because I'm not at liberty to, but there's definitely other interesting things happening.

"We first started that project 20 years ago, and we're still working on different Fireman projects.

"There's a longevity to it that I don't think would have happened if I'd been doing Paul McCartney solo albums, so I'm very happy I have that relationship with him."

Asked if he was happy to help McCartney's experimental nature be better known, Youth added: "I'm happy to facilitate artists' expression - that's what I love to do.



"Working with Scousers is great, because there's this really dry satire and dark humour in the room and in the work and I love that.

"I thought it was good that with The Fireman, Paul managed to get a little more acknowledgement for his avant-garde expression, which was a big part of The Beatles."

He continued: "John [Lennon] did get a lot of the credit for that, especially from when he was with Yoko [Ono], because Yoko was so associated with that. And absolutely, that was a massive part of it as well.

"Paul was actually the one who did the tape loops for 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and was coming up with a lot of the out-there arrangement suggestions for Sgt Pepper's... and hadn't really been acknowledged for that."

Youth said: "I think what was great with The Fireman as well, because he wanted to do it anonymously on the first two albums as well, we were allowed to really experiment.

The Beatles on their Magical Mystery Tour

"He wanted to experiment and do these things that had never been done before, and also he wasn't doing it to get approval from anyone - he did it anonymously!

"That I found very inspiring - that he had that weight of conviction and force of character that he was going to do these things with or without other people's approval or consideration."

He added: "I think that came from obviously the confidence he got from The Beatles, but also hanging out with a lot of artists in the '60s , with Linda [McCartney].

"Linda's father Lee Eastman represented [Willem] de Kooning and some of the big modern artists of American history, and Paul and Linda would hang out with them and he would tell me these great stories of the confidence he got from that.



"I remember him saying that he was watching de Kooning making this huge abstract painting, and he went over to him and said, 'What is it?' and de Kooning stepped back and looked at it and went, 'It kind of looks like a sofa to me'.

"That's when the penny dropped that he could actually get away with anything he wanted. There was no boundary or limits to your imagination or emotional expression... I found that very inspiring and I was very very happy to facilitate that, and still am."

Youth added that he would be writing new material for Killing Joke during rehearsals for their spring 2013 tour.

He has also produced Ian McCulloch solo record Holy Ghosts, which is released on April 22 via Edsel Records, packaged with McCulloch's fourth solo studio album Pro Patria Mori.

Youth performing with Killing Joke 


 Paul McCartney