7. Faust

Virgin Records put out The Faust Tapes and it cost 49 pence, so everybody bought it because that was the price of a single. Everybody at school had it; everybody at school hated it. I.Fuckin’. Loved. It. I’m not sure if I loved it because everyone else hated it and I just wanted to be weird. This one is on Faust IV. Hans Joachim Irmler is known to me as ‘Joe’ and in the early 2000s the Nightingales did a gig in London and a bloke came backstage and said, ‘I believe you’re into Faust’ and I said, ‘Yeah’, and he asked me, ‘Why have you never played at the Klangbad Festival?’ and I said, ‘Because I’ve never heard of it, what is it?’. He told me it was Joe from Faust’s festival. One day I got home, and my wife said, ‘Oh, there’s a really odd message for you on the answer machine’. And it’s this German bloke going: ‘Your music’s fantastic and we want to book you for the Klangbad festival.’ Then there’s a link to him and his missus at the time dancing in their studio listening to the Nightingales!