But I can totally see how it would put strain on a relationship, but if you’re on your own, I can see how you could go a bit mental. So I was seeing her every weekend, but the rest of the time I was doing my own thing and left to my own devices for way too long. I was doing a lot of that with my parents and I came to this country where my little girl is. Thank god for technology, cause you can do stuff like this conversation. I think I was really just wanting to reach out and do something with my band, have some collaborators that would help me remotely even.
But it was a bit of an adventure and as soon as I got through that bit, I really wanted to make a record. So I was sleeping on the floor and it took me about nine weeks to get everything sort of habitable. I’m separated, so at the beginning of this I came back to this house after a tour and it had no furniture in it, no heating, no hot water and it was pretty cold cause at the beginning of the pandemic was when it was, February or March, when it was still quite cold in Switzerland. So is this The Darkness wish fulfillment with your own stamp on it? Speaking of companionship, and on a more serious note, in the past year we’ve all been in lockdown with our mates more than we ever expected to be. There are contraptions you can get to alleviate that thing, but there’s nothing quite like a person’s touch - a person or persons’ touch. It’s companionship and it’s probably pertinent because of having been in lockdown for all that period of time. And it’s not just totally about sex, let’s widen the thing a little bit (laughs). I do think we’re one step away from sort of a creating a sentient bot that is real life tangible and will accompany you on your lonely days. They’re using algorithms to put people together. I think when you sort of analyze the traits of your partner and you’re looking for someone who is ideally matched, you are using an app that somewhat quantifies traits in that way, well it is sort of a mathematical. I think it sort of happens to a degree anyway. With that observation, how far did you go down the rabbit hole? Did you foresee a whole future where this is a thing where people are paired with sex robots? It’s much more of a personal journey than a global observation. And at some point you’ve got to turn the spotlight on yourself, don’t you? It’s like a “know thyself” thing. So in desperation, he chooses a manmade companion and the same thing happens (laughs).
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This one is about an unnamed protagonist, let’s call him Jason Holquind for now, who has a series of relationships that all end in the same way, just disappointment. Maybe that’s it.īut to be honest, the Easter is Cancelled is a much bigger, broader concept. So that way we don’t have to appoint sex workers and have them mandated. Do you remember when that furor was happening? But when Incel - which I think is short for involuntarily celibate, is that right? - which describes three quarters of my life (laughs), but maybe it’s a solution to that. I’m sure, of course, there are business people in the world who have already obtained some kind of AI companion, but I think that for it to become mainstream, well that’s probably like the silliness of that Incel thing. There’s one line in there and I always think about it and it goes, “I’m spreading disease so they can sell the cure.” We didn’t know how accurate that song would end up being, and it was obviously pre-pandemic.īut what are we saying now? So, maybe if everyone gets issued a sex robot.
The thing with Easter Is Cancelled was spooky actually. And if that is the case, does the song “Motorheart” predict that we’ll all soon be getting sex robots? One of your fans pointed out that since you guys are kind of prophets, releasing Easter Is Cancelled only to have the pandemic closely follow that perhaps you can predict the future. We spoke with Hawkins about his prediction skills, some of the key tracks on the new album, his premium choice of T-shirt selections and why the city of Glasgow gets a musical shoutout on the new record within our chat below.
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