I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album. Max Tundra More Quotes by Max Tundra More Quotes From Max Tundra It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing. Max Tundra cinema enthusiasm watches I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away. Max Tundra writing song thinking Making music is a total hassle, really. Max Tundra hassle music-is Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication. Max Tundra fabrication rooted my-own A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films. Max Tundra students looks art I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset. Max Tundra upset Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone. Max Tundra cameras errors would-be There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons. Max Tundra cutting mind people What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing. Max Tundra parody bugs special The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space. Max Tundra arches space stuff I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it. Max Tundra might people thinking I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsessed with the girl, I write about the clothes I'm wearing. Max Tundra girl running song It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words. Max Tundra tricky sound sometimes Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument. Max Tundra musical-instruments instruments musical When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved. Max Tundra distraction projects deadline The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005. Max Tundra max albums nice I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed. Max Tundra cds fire song When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end. Max Tundra hassle buttons ends I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating. Max Tundra old-fashioned process use The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note. Max Tundra keys play numbers
