You said in an Australian interview that you “probably wasted a lot of time at the beginning working with another producer” and that it was a “complete waste of time”.
Liam: And you want to know who that is? Jagz! He is a good friend of mine so I am not disrespecting him but me and Jagz were talking about… I respected him from the Primal Scream stuff he’d done and I’ve known about his production for a long time. John [Fairs] was friends with him. And he was like “man, get Jagz in – he is really into what you’re doing”. And it was just one of those things where we were just like “Wow this is going to be fucking great”.
It looked good on paper, but it just didn’t work. It was pretty much a waste of time for about month and half, when we were just trying to make it work but it just didn’t came together. He is a good guy but it was just another one of those things that made me think “I am doing this on my own now”.
At the beginning of the record we didn’t want to fall into the old track – we wanted to be really open and maybe get, no one well known, but get a guitarist in, get maybe different people in and trying to record some shit and just do something different. When really it is down to the drums and the bass – old school! That is what we get excited about.