Stevie Jackson
Stevie Jackson
Stephen "Stevie" Jacksonis a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is best known for playing lead guitar and singing in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle & Sebastian. Jackson's guitar playing is distinctively retrogressive and melodic, with a heavy use of reverb and minimal effects. He has, in the past, been nicknamed 'Reverb' or 'Stevie Reverb' due to his use of the said effect...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 January 1969
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Waking up every morning in the sunshine puts you in a happy frame of mind.
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I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.
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I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.
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Fans keep us healthy, keep us not so insular. Through contact with them we learn things. It's strange even hearing that word, fans. I don't think of them as fans. Or else, I am a fan too. We try to blur the distinction between performer and onlooker. We want a direct communication.
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It's pretty exciting to be playing on Broadway. It's a dream, really. All that American stuff - I get very excited by it.
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Everyone is making a really big deal about it, and that's great. America is my favorite place in the world. It is full of wonder and magic.
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Stuart was insisting (we contribute songs), which I thought was a pretty disastrous idea. The first couple of records were very self-contained worlds with a style that was all their own. It struck me as being insane to muddle what was so distinctive in the first place. I thought there would be a decline in quality. And I think there was.
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When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.
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When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.
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We did pre-production for the first time. He listened to the songs and made suggestions on structure and other things. We're such control freaks, we never let anyone hear anything in the past. But when we recorded, we were prepared ? we tried really hard to nail every part, every vocal, every guitar. And I think that lends it a certain urgency.
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We want to be able to do everything. We want to be able to play a big rock song and then play 'The Fox in the Snow.' We want to be able to take them up and bring 'em down. We just want to be the best group that we can be.
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There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.
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This definitely is an unusual gig for us. It's all about trying to reach more people. The shows are short, which makes it kind of different. I guess we're just going to fire off a few fast ones.
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Actually, it's just the opposite. Stuart is still the main guy, obviously, but he now draws more from the group than ever. In the old days, people would come in with their finished songs. Now, everyone in the group contributes ideas ? a chord sequence or a riff or a rhythm or anything.