A bleep-tastic show above Mallaig
“Well, it’s changed my life completely,” responds Julian Corrie with a laugh, when asked how becoming a member of Franz Ferdinand – with whom he has played synths and guitar since 2017 – has affected him over the past few years.
“I’ m really proud to have been able to tour the world and play music and to meet so many lovely folk,” he reflects. “We had a couple of Covid cancellations but this year was mostly a year off for us, which is incredibly lucky.”
Lucky too because it has given Corrie time to refocus on his electronic pop solo project Miaoux Miaoux, which has largely lain dormant since an all-consuming schedule as a member of one of Scotland’s biggest rock bands began. A special Scots man Session finds Corrie digging out the bleep-tastic track Giga Shrug from his last album, School of Velocity, for a performance filmed on a hilltop above his home in Mallaig.
“I walk the dog up there a lot–thought it would look nice on camera,” he says of his choice of location. “There were quite a few takes, I kept messing up the performance. ”Of the choice of song he adds: “Giga Shrug is one off the last Miaoux Miaoux album that was never played live so I thought I’d get a good recording of it. ”
Having been on tour pretty
much solidly with Franz Ferdinand for the past three years, Corrie has been enjoying some time off. But lockdown and the opportunity for reflection has proven useful for pondering how best to go about re - engaging as a solo artist. New material may be on the way sooner than some people think.
“It’s such a weird time to be a musician, not withstanding a pandemic,” Corrie reflects.
“The traditional structures for releasing records are still in place but the way people consume music has changed completely.”
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