Do Argos make electric guitars?
David: It was an Encore guitar. You get them, like, not from a guitar shop. Jonny: Yeah! They do electric guitar starter kits, where you get a guitar, an amp and what else? Anyways, I used to work at Argos and I remember having to put them away. We didn’t treat them very well… well, we didn’t treat them like musical instruments. Download: ‘Avocado Baby’ (unreleased demo) David’s lyrics have attracted a lot of attention. They’re clever and frank and so specific that people tend to think they’re pure confessional. There’s plenty of joyous, frustrated, exquisitely phrased detail about being a teenager in a small town, with nothing to do but drink, smoke and fall in love. But listen to ‘We Come Alive’ and you’re warned, “Everyone who knows me knows I make up all these stories”. When it’s easy for you to write a song, do you feel like you’re getting away with it? David: No, but I can imagine Gordon Gano writing ‘Blister in the Sun’ in exactly the same spirit as I write songs. He’ll just s
