I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

Jamie Lidell

Categorized in : Direct Bubbles Reach Out

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be something other people enjoy."

selfish kids people

Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

play song order

There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.

empires hate done

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

chords pills going-out

I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.

batteries space years

I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.

guitar tools unique

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everyt... by Jamie Lidell

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

hard sound

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

likes guy kind

I wanted to make an album that I wanted to put on myself and could listen to again and again. In the past I've done these records that are very in-depth. I love them and I'm very proud of them but I've always found it hard to listen to them again and again...they're very demanding.

albums depth past

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

rocks character people

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating s... by Jamie Lidell

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

creating stuff philosophy

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

understanding identity people

It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting.

water beach people