Whats the genesis of the songs written with Grant on the album?
There are three of them. One is called “Demon Days,” another is “Let Your Light In, Babe,” and the third one is “It Ain’t Easy.” When Grant died in May 2006, we’d started the preparation for a Go-Betweens record. We were not going to record for a year, but I’d started to go over to his place, and we’d had five or six practices. We had about eight songs: two of mine, which were “Pandanus” and “Did She Overtake You?” and we had about six of his. On the last couple Go-Betweens records, he was writing lyrics just when we demoed an album or in the studio. Most of his songs, he had the whole structure and the chorus worked out, but he didn’t have many lyrics. Basically, I took three of the songs and completed them. One song, “Demon Days,” he had the first five lines written, but the rest of them didn’t have verse lyrics. I took three that I thought that I could sing and finished them. Did Grant’s passing cause you to think differently about writing this album? No, I don’t think so. I think b
