"When I wrote [2019's] Watch Me Get Married, I thought maybe people would have that as their wedding song. But mostly it's inconceivable what people are gonna do with a song. I don't think about it too much because there are 100,000 places where it's gonna live. Have I ever heard about any inappropriate uses of songs? I think having Our Anniversary as a wedding song is a little surprising, but maybe they're realists."
"I'd have to say Lee Scratch Perry just because he was so crazy. He was like a little kid just infectious excitement. I think that he would have been easy to hang out with. But also, King Tubby was such a minimalist and I'd be curious about how he determined when enough was enough investing so much power in the fewest elements."
"I wasn't quite a teenager, more like age seven to 12. There was a lot of farmland that we weren't really supposed to be on, but we couldn't help ourselves. And there was a particular farmer that had the most land, and he had orchards. I loved being in the apple orchards with all the trees lined up. The farmer would often come chasing us. Mostly it was climbing walls"
Songwriters often do not plan how listeners will use their songs, and songs can end up in many unexpected contexts, such as weddings. A writer found it surprising but plausible that a melancholic song like "Our Anniversary" would be used at weddings. Interest in dub music includes admiration for Lee Scratch Perry's exuberance and King Tubby's minimalism and restraint. Traditional 1970s Jamaican dub techniques influenced a remix album and inspired ideas about recycling recorded material and trying a chopped-and-screwed approach. Childhood memories include roaming apple orchards, climbing walls, and being chased by a farmer in Knaresborough between ages seven and twelve.
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