Chords for Richard Ashcroft interview with Vernon Kay on T4, Dec 2005

Gentlemen set your video recorders because this is the last interview that I will ever do for t4 because after this I'm gonna retire
ladies and [Cm] gentlemen Richard Ashcroft
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[Cm] Finally Richard I get to meet you.
Yeah, I'm a massive fan [Eb] of everything that you've done musically
[Ab] I think I'm gonna watch me rocked [F] on for the past decade or [Cm] so has been absolutely brilliant
Thank you very much, man.
I appreciate your support.
No problem.
But [Ab] let's go.
Let's go [Cm] slap back
Yeah, you've been away for three years yes [Abm] fires flies without you knowing it doesn't believe it
Does it feel weird to be back and back into the limelight?
Not really.
[Eb] I mean, it's you know, when people say you're away for three years.
It's like creative people
I think it never goes away.
Whatever you're doing you can you know, every day will be an idea
There'll be a song that we accord or you know for a few of the months you may be in a studio
So I kept on being creative.
We had me and my wife had another child
So that kept us busy and three years just seemed to go [Cm] by you're quite an intense songwriter
Because it has been documented that you kind of lock yourself away and kind of focus [C] on writing and stuff
Do you take [Cm] influences from family and your [Eb] surroundings?
Is it quite easy to put lyrics together?
[C] Sometimes the easiest lyrics like a lot of writers will say will be the ones that flow as a whole
_ Vomit a whole spew of the song will arrive in one moment, you know
And you're really lucky if you if that happens when it happens, you know
It's something to be celebrated over times
I think the certain tunes that I'll write that are based on loops like taking back to bittersweet symphony that could
Take five or six months before the final lyric comes together
It's it's like a working process constantly like a painting that you keep going back [Eb] to when you're performing live.
I mean [Cm] everyone _
Talks about your performance at live eight, right?
Everyone's saying Oh Richard Ashcroft, you know, he's [Eb] back.
I was like, you never went away
[B] He's always [Ab] on my CD player.
That's the first this one
I was [Bb] talking to my wife about this [Cm] morning's, you know, I read something already someone saying oh, [Eb] he's back
[Abm] He's back at his best or back on the phone
[C] It's almost like every time you start a new record you ever have to [Eb] be back on for more
No, it's the return to form and like you said, you know, [Cm] you never do go away.
But um, that's the whole culture
We live in at the moment.
Everything does have to have a label
Everything just has to be put in a nice little chicken nugget that we can they think we all understand at the moment
Minds every time returning to form, you know return of ashcroft.
Yeah, that's what it'll be on the front of all the magazine return Yeah
and what was it [Ab] like being up there with Coldplay because obviously it's since
Your band split up and you've done your solo stuff other bands have kind of taken the limelight
I was it good to be on stage with those guys
We discussed it before and we rehearsed it once at Crystal Palace and I think just from that first rehearsal
I realized this was going to be something that we could easily pull off because I think the band themselves like I'd say
You know the big fans of what I've done with the verb and what have you and we did life's an ocean together actually a track I'm so
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Ab] Yeah, _ great bass line and we did that in the south of France on the end of a European tour
So they even had that just off the top of their heads and Chris Ryan's got all the chorus spit on the guitar
And I'm like Christ.
I don't even know that and he knows it
Yeah, so cuz they got the train spot a bit and the ability as well
That thing combined made it really easy where it could have been well, this is weird all this looks strange
Oh, this is natural.
So I felt quite natural really because they've been through the school [Cm] of
Verve rock or whatever at some point _
On [Eb] _ _ a different [Ab] tangent who cuts your hair [Cm] my wife cuts my hair.
Yeah, will you do mine?
You've always got a good haircut.
She's a yeah
I [Ab] mean, she doesn't like doing it just before I'm about [C] to do something there is a pressure there
Yeah, I suffer from a bit [Cm] of a bedhead problem at the back, but it's funny in the [Abm] years that I don't do anything
Or anyone sees me.
[Cm] I do go right back.
I take it right back
Yeah, and I've got I've got a [Eb] side parting for official functions [Ab] a side parting for official [Eb] functions
I mean if it's a travel lodge sort of rotary meeting, I think I will find a side parting [Ab] does suit that
Environment [Eb] definitely.
Yeah, do you obviously you've got loads of rock and roll pals like the Gallaghers, you know Coldplay and [Ab] stuff
Yeah, do you speak to those kind of people on a regular basis?
No, that's what I'm at
It's funny this business because I take someone someone like Liam's like an island when I meet him [C] some somewhere say
Some Q Awards thing part of me [Eb] the other day.
It's like oh, thank God you're here because
You know, we've shared we've been through a hell of a lot really that's similar in ways
And I wish we saw each other more often because of what we've done over the last 10 years
We've always been going in different places
But when you see each other, it's like, oh, you [Ab] know, it could have been yesterday
[Bb] We've almost got this idea that maybe that'll happen in years to come
You know when the beer bellies are fully set in and the dartboards out when you've all sat on rocking chairs
I know it's weird.
There's someone
_ [C] Well Richard, thank you very [Eb] much for chatting to us a great pleasure mate.
Put [Ab] your hands together.
Ladies.
Gentlemen, Rick
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