David Ford: 3pm
Sample lyric: "My phone's been off the hook since Tuesday evening/ No one calls and I don't mind."
"The sound of 1994, captured on Encore imitation Stratocaster, Tandy karaoke microphone and Yamaha 4-track. It's about a guy who stays in bed all day and is utterly morose and miserable. It was called 3pm because that's when he gets up. It was a weird lament about a girl who had upset me, and I used to play it constantly to my long-suffering friends. Oddly, I remember the song but I can't remember the girl at all. I was about 16 and there's some very naive, GCSE poetry going on. I definitely had an REM fixation. I wanted to be Michael Stipe and it took about 10 years to get over that. I grew up in Eastbourne, a sheltered environment artistically, and I was very slow to develop musically. I don't think you necessarily have to do bad things before you do good things, but it's like anything: there comes a point learning to play cricket where you start to hit the ball properly. The same is true of writing songs. You start to see where the heartstrings lie and how you can manipulate them."
Sample lyric: "My phone's been off the hook since Tuesday evening/ No one calls and I don't mind."
"The sound of 1994, captured on Encore imitation Stratocaster, Tandy karaoke microphone and Yamaha 4-track. It's about a guy who stays in bed all day and is utterly morose and miserable. It was called 3pm because that's when he gets up. It was a weird lament about a girl who had upset me, and I used to play it constantly to my long-suffering friends. Oddly, I remember the song but I can't remember the girl at all. I was about 16 and there's some very naive, GCSE poetry going on. I definitely had an REM fixation. I wanted to be Michael Stipe and it took about 10 years to get over that. I grew up in Eastbourne, a sheltered environment artistically, and I was very slow to develop musically. I don't think you necessarily have to do bad things before you do good things, but it's like anything: there comes a point learning to play cricket where you start to hit the ball properly. The same is true of writing songs. You start to see where the heartstrings lie and how you can manipulate them."
