![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe Malcolm Tucker could wake people up to this terrible government That was cancelled due to lockdown but we sent the demos back and forth until we had something that appeared to be an album. We’d booked Konk Studios in Crouch End, north London, which was great because it was the Kinks’ old studio and I love Ray Davies. I’d send them to Robert, who very sweetly rejected a whole pile of my efforts until eventually we had enough to take into the studio. You wrote most of the songs in America, right? Yes, I was shooting the Suicide Squad film in Atlanta for four months and had a lot of downtime, so I bought a cheap electric guitar and made demos on GarageBand. ![]() I loved that, so with Robert’s encouragement, I had a go at writing more. It was very exciting to watch the real deal at work, so I scribbled out a song and they turned it into proper music within a day. He knew I played guitar and leaned on me to come along. My friend Dr Robert from the Blow Monkeys is a terrific musician and every year he hosts a kind of happening where disparate musicians come together for a recording session. How did that happen? We just set out to have some fun. You’re releasing your debut album aged 63. At art college, he was briefly in a punk band four decades later, he is releasing his first solo album, St Christopher. As a director, he won an Oscar for his 1993 short film, Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life. His film roles include The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Suicide Squad and Paddington. He’s best known for his Bafta-winning performance as spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in political satire The Thick of It and as the 12th Doctor in Doctor Who. Peter Capaldi, 63, studied at Glasgow School of Art and landed his breakthrough acting role aged 24 on the film Local Hero. ![]()
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