Not that you'd know it

Not that you'd know it

Mansun, by current calculations, play 200 gigs a year and release three or four singles.  They've only had the one album so far (the chart-topping [[Attack of the Grey Lanten (Album)|Attack Of The Grey Lantern]]), but there's another one on the way. When Rhythm encounters the band at Parr Street, they seem utterly drained, like veterans of some obscure but savage war. "We actually love it," says Andie dismissively.  "It's not a thing you can only put half your heart into. You've got to put everything into it and do as much as you possibly can. All right, it's tiring and you miss out on home lives and family, but you just have to put that effort in. Otherwise you end up getting stale - the songs don't sell and the albums go in at number 39. If you've got the passion then anything's possible.  If there's any doubt or you, start getting pissed off that you're doing too many gigs, that's what fucks a band up."

Mansun, by current calculations, play 200 gigs a year and release three or four singles.  They've only had the one album so far (the chart-topping [[Attack of the Grey Lantern (Album)|Attack Of The Grey Lantern]]), but there's another one on the way. When Rhythm encounters the band at Parr Street, they seem utterly drained, like veterans of some obscure but savage war. "We actually love it," says Andie dismissively.  "It's not a thing you can only put half your heart into. You've got to put everything into it and do as much as you possibly can. All right, it's tiring and you miss out on home lives and family, but you just have to put that effort in. Otherwise you end up getting stale - the songs don't sell and the albums go in at number 39. If you've got the passion then anything's possible.  If there's any doubt or you, start getting pissed off that you're doing too many gigs, that's what fucks a band up."

Sounds a bit like the dreaded Spice Girls syndrome: your manager makes you the most successful act in the world, so you complain about overwork and sack him. Not that Mansun are in any way comparable to Ginger, Posh and co (if they were then Andie would be Burly Kickboxer Spice), but they too have their fair share of on¬the-road tension.

Sounds a bit like the dreaded Spice Girls syndrome: your manager makes you the most successful act in the world, so you complain about overwork and sack him. Not that Mansun are in any way comparable to Ginger, Posh and co (if they were then Andie would be Burly Kickboxer Spice), but they too have their fair share of on¬the-road tension.

"I had to play all these representations of different genres of music," he recalls. "Which I found really hard, because my style is a mix of  

"I had to play all these representations of different genres of music," he recalls. "Which I found really hard, because my style is a mix of