Hey we're Boy and Bear and we covered Don't You Forget About Me
by Simple Minds for Like A Version.
I was actually in a bar pre covid and I heard the song I was like that'd be a really fun song
to cover and I knew I'd forget it so I went to the bathroom and I actually recorded myself singing it
in the bar bathroom. It's not me weeing I promise it's just a urinal sound.
I think you're unsure of the lyrics on that one. I was unsure of the lyrics.
Had such energy at the top of the song. As soon as we try and shift into like rock it falls over
so fast and we're like this isn't gonna work in our version of it. It's just gonna sound
sound sad as opposed to exciting so we just went.
It's really hard on a song that has that many significant hooks that many key changes
it's like all these things are coming at your ears the whole time so you have to really be like
if we change one it sort of fits awkwardly in the middle. We almost need to take out
a whole bunch of them and just reapproach it from a far more neutral sort of palette.
We had taken out some significant parts of the song. There was lots
of room for new ideas. I think I just accidentally started singing
something and then we got so used to it. I tried to go with that youthful exuberance
finding yourself as a young adult or a teenager and a sense of celebration around that.
It is relatively low in my range and it was fun to sing but it was sort of lacking vocal
punch and I think I sung like a falsetto lead with it to try and give it some support and the penny
drops that we just thought if we if we could get a female vocalist on it I think it's going
to really lift that energy and embrace a bit more of the party vibe of like just two lead singers,
everyone on percussion, everyone playing and embrace that sort of momentum and we heard Annie
and we just thought she has such a charm to her voice and such an honesty that we thought she'd be
a good fit and we only actually started rehearsing with Annie this week. We sent her a song. We had
been talking but we didn't actually hear her voice in it until this week. She started singing
and we was like great this is this is gonna work. It was too late to back out of that.
I think that first one we did Walking On A Dream the goal of that one was to actually
highlight how amazing the lyrics are in that song and we felt like taking out the
big sort of electronic grooves and all those things it made those lyrics so pronounced
and they're actually really powerful lyrics.
They do kind of represent some evolution in the band too I think. The Amy Winehouse
was a slightly more hypnotic groove kind of soft rock
vibe to it. You obviously just can't try and do it the way she does it because you'll just
never ever do it anywhere near as good so... I'll never do it... You're great. Thank you.
That was definitely in the other studio with far less inputs it was a lot of fun today
coming down here and getting to use a bit more of a bigger studio kind of approach to it. It
definitely allowed us to have more flexibility with the instruments and the arrangements.
Yeah DMA's one sure was definitely a little bit of a conversation starter about song
choice for this one. Just really liked the boldness of tackling quite a large song.
I thought to Emma Louise did Nick Cave. She crushed that. That was so beautiful.
Weirdly enough we've landed in a slight kind of party vibe. I don't think we're ever going to be a
party vibe band but as the arrangement's coming together it felt like a sense of celebration.
Maybe it's too early to celebrate but if people feel uplift and they feel themselves moving
and they feel themselves singing along I think then that's a great result.
You just perform better when you're enjoying it and we're pretty lucky that we get to do this
so at least today I've having a blast and also like having Annie
with us on stage changed what has been of art for us for a long time
and that gave a whole new sense of life to the performance for us like you're looking
around and you're seeing Dave, Tim oh that's right Annie great, here we go, this is fun.