SPENCER

Inside Out is just observation really. I don't remember ever seeing flowers on lamp posts, or on railings when I was a kid. These 'markers' seem to be a product of the age we live in. The need to publicise grief, ever since Diana in '97, means that every personal tragedy becomes public. The song is also about how people fail to react, or interact, with others. Incidentally, the line "I won't say I told you so" belongs to Matt. Don't tell him though... He will have forgotten.

'The Here And The Now' is really about the media, specifically, the internet. The idea is partly based on the Irvine Welsh short story 'Snuff' within 'The Acid House,' It's supposed to typify a lone male, whose life revolves online and did contain a line that went 'yellow, the curtains of the nets, what did I do, before the internet' but, it's a shit line, so there you go. If you haven't read 'The Acid House' you should. It's good. Anyway, the chorus is deliberately ambiguous, the feel is supposed to be representative of both a masturbatory, and a psychological need to connect with the self. Pretentious? Me? 

Wonderful Life is about the media again, this one though is really about the news. And, it's about the film with the same name. Firstly, it's about the desensitising nature of the news, how we can feast whilst others famine...(I might use that). How the TV boths brings us together, and distances us from the events that unravel. Droughts, floods, kidnappings and wars are all dealt with in a Swiss Tony fashion. Dressed up and edited to empower us to feel helpless. Secondly, the film deals with the idea of non-existance, a what if? question. It's also about a short story (2 sides of A4) that started with the line "She stood, at the top of the stairs, in the small terraced house that she shared with her husband and wished she could jump."