Information Regurgitation Station

Why Berlin?
I knew it was a place that I didn’t really know. I knew maybe a couple of people there. I could be anonymous, I didn’t know the language, I needed to go have an adventure. I started up a little life for myself, taught myself some computer programs, and it was nice to get out of the studio because there was nothing I could do… Being in New York I could always fall back into the studio. Wake up in the morning, nothing to do, go to the studio. In Berlin I couldn’t do that. I had to find other things to do. I went to the zoo. I went to museums. I took a lot of drugs. I went dancing. I stayed up all night. I met crazy people. I heard incredible music. I ate amazing food. I saw hundreds of men getting fisted. I got to see things I’d never seen before, and it really really was inspiring. It just reset my batteries. And I was with Neil Tennant – he and Chris have a place in Berlin – and he was in town quite a lot, and we were hanging out a lot. I got to know him really well and I just think he’s an amazing guy. We had lots of philosophical conversations about music, and we just talked about music a lot, and making records, and what needed to happen. And we sat there in this outside café and he said, ‘what do you think of Stuart Price?’. And a lightbulb went off in my head. I thought about it for the rest of the day. And he was the only person I could think of who Babydaddy could not only get on with in the studio but love working with in the studio. We’ve known him forever – Zoot Woman was the first band we ever toured with, on a whole UK tour before our first album. Babydaddy loves him, he’s always calling him up for advice and we’ve always got along with him really well. So I just called Stuart out of the blue from Berlin. He was finishing the new Zoot Woman album, we talked about music a whole lot, we talked about Scissor Sisters a little bit, but he said, unprompted, ‘you know I would drop everything I’m doing at the moment to make a record with you’.

That’s a very unusual – a very forward – thing for someone to say. It’s almost like asking…
He’s a very straightforward person. I thought it was so neat that he said it, and super nice, and we finished our conversation and I spent another week thinking about it then I called Babydaddy back in the States and just mentioned it in passing, like I was treading carefully with it…. And two weeks later Babydaddy and Stuart were in Berlin with me, and we went clubbing and had an amazing time, then started working a week later. It’s been heavenly. The three of us are going to get married! It’s kind of pathetic how much we love each other.

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Jake Shears (scissorsister) interview with PopJustice

I can’t fucking wait to here this
The thought of the collabo is mind melting
ugh March 10’