Oxford#3 (..)

You can spend too long dwelling on stuff that there’s no point in dwelling on. The whole thing for me now is just hanging out with Radiohead again. Having done my record there’s a point to carrying on working. That’s all I need

june 20th 2006 :

i’m the next act waiting in the wings i’m a flash flood running through your ground floor i am all the things that you choose to ignore you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of the picture lying in the leaves i’m a cloud of moths that just wants to share your light i’m an insect who wants to get out of the night you only stick with me because there are no others you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of the picture lying in the leaves

june 24th 2006 :

i’m the next act waiting in the wings i’m a flash flood running through your ground floor i am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of your picture lying in the leaves i’m a […] moth who just wants to share your light i’m just an insect trying to get out of the night you only stick with me because there are no others you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of your picture lying in the leaves

june 26th 2006 :

i’m the next act waiting in the wings i’m a flash flood running through the ground floor i am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of the picture lying in the leaves i am a moth who just wants to share your light i am an insect trying to get out of the night i am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of your picture lying in the leaves

june 27th 2006 :

i’m the next act waiting in the wings i’m an animal trapped in your hot car i am all the days that you choose to ignore you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of the picture lying in the leaves i am a moth who just wants to share your light i’m an insect trying to get out of the night i only stick with you because there are no others you are all i need you are all i need i’m in the middle of the picture lying in the leaves

« It’s cool that MTV is taking this up, because normally, this is something I only get to talk to people about who are considered ’extreme left-wing’ or whatever, but it’s good it’s hitting the mainstream, because I don’t consider it a left-wing issue ; I consider it a political-stability issue, » / « I think if [the campaign] does one good thing, it would be to make this concept of slavery — which is what it is — less taboo. If they can make it something that is OK for us to talk about, and for politicians in the West to actually accept that this is an issue, well, then we’re doing a good thing. »

« They’ve produced a video of two parallel stories running, one of a little boy in the West and one of a little boy in a sweatshop in the East, and the boy [in the West] ends up buying the shoes from the sweatshop. It’s actually quite powerful, » « It’s the sort of images I have in my head anyway. Sometimes when you’re walking down High Street and you’re looking at the incredibly cheap [sneakers], you sort of think, ’Hmmm, well how did they manage to make that so cheaply ?’ It sort of reminds me of one of my preoccupations, so I’m touched that the music goes with that. I think it’s great. »

This is a remix of ‘All I Need’ that turned into a new song that no one’s ever heard and didn’t know what to do with.