Where is squeeze now

Who are some of your other influences? I absolutely adore cheerful pop music, and that stuck with me throughout my life. MB: You guys were part of the new wave music and have been lumped into a bunch of other genres.

How have you seen your influence in music today? One of the things I think about that is exciting today is artists are less informed by genre. In a way, only listening to radio stations will sometimes narrow your taste because they give you more of what you want to hear. I always liked being surprised by different things, and that seeps its way into what Squeeze does. Jools Holland and I had been playing together for about 10 months before I met Chris, and when I met Chris we clicked instantly.

We were both writing songs individually, and we started writing together. Suddenly we were writing tons of stuff. We spent about three years doing very little else while we were writing. It was a great way to get our relationship going. McCartney fell through, but what was it like to be working with such accomplished musicians? We did do some stuff with Nick Love…Dave Edmunds was great. We were just banging tracks out and it was great. What was it like in the studio that day?

GT: We arrived at the studio in the morning, and the news had been on the radio. We woke up to the news that he was dead, and no one felt like working. It just was the oddest day. So, we did indeed go to the pub and drown our sorrows. Lots of great stuff has happened since then, but for the sustained, creative momentum, they take the biscuit every time for me. GT: There are different eras of Squeeze.

We had all that youthful energy, and we somehow managed to make it work. It lives in its own life span. Squeeze's greatest success on the U. It sounded great on the radio. That was exactly what we were looking for. The second breakup came in and lasted longer — until he and Tilbrook reunited in And at the end of the interview, we just looked at each other and sort of discussed very loosely the idea of doing some shows.

So it seemed like the obvious thing to do, to put the band back together and it just all fell together very sweetly. Released in , "Cradle to the Grave," an album that came to fruition after they were asked to write the theme song to a TV comedy, was Squeeze's first release of new material in 17 years, followed two years later by "The Knowledge.

We went and started writing songs for 'Cradle. He did pretty much all the work so it was very much his baby, I suspect. Reach the reporter at ed. Follow him on Twitter: EdMasley. Support local journalism. Subscribe to azcentral. Where: Chandler Center for the Arts, N. Arizona Ave. Details: , chandlercenter. Facebook Twitter Email. Ed Masley The Republic azcentral. Things to do, eat and see in Arizona. Tilbrook, who plays lead guitar and sings, welcomes the return to the road.

I got to spend a lot more time with my family than I ever have done consecutively after a year-and-a-half. It was a good time to slow down and rethink things.

Particularly at this end of the tour, there's a lot of passion to come listen to a band play, particularly us. It goes down really well, so we're in a very good place. Nestled in between the familiar favorites from the setlist are more recent songs like "Departure Lounge" and "Please Be Upstanding," both from the group's last studio album, 's The Knowledge —a testament to Difford and Tilbrook's continued melodic and sophisticated songwriting.

The Nomadband Tour also provides an opportunity for Difford and Tilbrook to revisit older material not often played in their set after so many years. To me, it's a classical piece of music with a lyrical dressing, if you like.

It's so powerful. I know that a lot of the audience come to it for the first time, but it doesn't deter them from enjoying it. And it makes them look at the album from a different point of view. East Side of Story recently marked its 40th anniversary this year.

In the end, the single album was co-produced by Costello and Roger Bechirian, with one song produced by Edmunds. Elvis Costello, I think, had more time and more passion for the idea and was producing records around that time in his career, so that was something he was in and out of the studio doing. It felt natural to fall in his lap, unlike Nick and Dave who really didn't have the time. Costello played a major role as co-producer on East Side Story.

He gave us the courage to widen our scope further. When we started out making records, we sort of narrowed that focus.