"As for bootlegs, well I saw so many video camera's and people holding mini discs on the North Amercian tour. It's inevitable! the only thing that does piss me off is when people are selling bootlegs to make money! I have nothing against swapping/copying! We actually filmed the last two shows in LA professionally (Forest Wise was the man behind this), so we are hoping to release a live video some time in the future!"

So, a live video also maybe! Not bad at all. She also wrote to me about all the soloprojects and new records. Rachel is doing some quality demos with Mark Van Hoen this time around, Neilīs record is almost finished and will probvably be out in October on 4AD and the next Mojave 3 record is pencilled for release next January. About the swapping bootlegs and liveshows, I think the best think right now is to use the message board for this purpose. I havenīt the time to fix a seperate page for this.

[Male reporter, translated] Mojave 3 was formed 5 years ago since slowdive dissolved, a band which did dreampop. Mojave 3 took with them the great melodies and melancholoi but not the effect pedals and amchines. To this date, Mojave 3 has done 3 albums, the latest , excuses for travellers, was released this spring. The band concists of 5 members, 4 lads and one girl and for a while , they all lived together in a big house in Cornwall in the south of England. Nowadays Neil Halstead is the only one living there. The others have moved to London. Neil Halstead says that the [fördelar) with living together was that they were able to do music whenever they wanted.

{excerpt from Lovesongs on the radio is played}

[NH] - It was really good sort of working on music. Because you could kinda just do it any time of day. You now you didnīt have to sort of ring everyone up and arrange a rehearsal, you could just kind of say..if you sat around you just felt like doing some music you could juts go and do it so...It had a lot of benefits from that aspect I think but you kind of sacrifised a lot of sort of personal space i suppose

[AK, translated from swedish] - Neil Halstead is sitting crosslegged on a blue wooden bench and smokes. For a While he has left the others on a pub a couple of hundred meters a way and now weīre sitting in the basement to the Venue, a little club just bedise Weaverly station in Edinburgh in Scotland Itīs Nh who writes the songs of mojave 3 and sings them. RG who you heard singing in the song we heard sang more in the beginning, nowadays, she is mostly doing background singing. Mojave 3 comes from England, but if you didnīt know that and only heard the music, you would probably think that they were from USA, on band slike Mazzy Star, Jayhwaks and Red House Painters.

[NH] - Iīm a huge sort of The Red House painters fan. I love the red house painters and they probably influence what we do quite a lot.

{Excerpt from Krazy Koz is played}

[AK, translated] - Krazy Koz is available as a b-side to the Any Day will Be fine single and was Written to Mark Kozelek, he who sings in Red House Painters. But that song was not written by Neil, It was the Drummer Ian McCutcheon who wrote that. But Ian is not really satisfied with Krazy Koz, it wasnīt really finished he says a couple of hours later when the whole band is gathered in the lounge. He is more satisfied with the song Got My Sunshine, a song he wrote when his girlfriend broke up

[IM] - It was recorded in the winter but my mind said that it was in the you know for the summer or whatever and it was about getting over someone and then just finding into point where you just think you know still alive, you know life goes on. You know when youīre in a relationship and it breaks up and if youīre the person whoīs being sort of fucked over then you always think "Oh God Is this the worst" ... when you suddenly get over it it was just like...It was basically I was down in Cornwall and just got up one day and it was just a beautiful day and I was just like...for some reason it felt totally over that whole thing...

{Excerpt from Got my sunshine is played}

[NH] - I think..I mean a lot of the last record was actually written while the band weīre sort of touring and...I think..you know...I think a lot of the songs sort of reflects this kind of trenzy (?) and sort of record thatīs all about some different places and stuff..so

[AK] - Is that why itīs called Excuses for travlleres?

[NH] - Yeah , I suppose so cause you know there was a sort of...we noticed there was some sort of travlleing theme..

[AK] - Thereīs a song... Prayer for the Paranoid..

[IM] - Prayer for the paranoid? Yeah

[AK] - Is that how about itīs hard to write or?

{excerpt from Prayer for the paranoid is played}

[NH]That was written after a ..... disastourus sort fo tour in Germany i think which was really miserable, I think it was actually written while we were still on tour. And..somethimes you just do gigs and you just think "Whatīs the point" You know..." Why do we bother doing this to ourselves". Cause the thing is ..noone of us is making any money out of this really ..we all do different jobs I live in Cornwall and work behind a bar when Iīm not doing the band, Simon is sort of dintooing Video production and that sort of stuff and...so when..the point where the band is not enjoyable I think we all question why we do it...and I think that song just sort of came out of that..But it makes up for it if you have a really good gig..when you know that youīce actually done something people have anjoyed in some way you know.

[AK, transleted]The minutes before the concert on the Venue, Rachel Goswell is sitting with her head between her legs and memorizes background singing and basslines, Ian M is a little bit worried that heīs had a beer too much and the rest of the band just walks back and forth. Although Mojave 3 isnīt a [Röjar]band, they are a certainty on stage...the some blue light makes their music even more dreamy and intense. The audience in the hardly [glesa] rows in front of the scene shuts their eyes and listens...

{In love with a view LIVE is played...}

[Male reporter] - In love with a view from the latest album Excuses for travllers recorded live from The Venue in Edinburg. It was Musikjournalens Anna Karlsson who talked to Neil Halstead and Ian McCutcheon an evening in Scotland in the late summer... [END]