Circuit3 Interview 2022 - Technology For The Youth Electro Synthpop 80s

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hi i'm mark wibrow and this is the electronic cafe  the channel for the lovers of electronic music and   this is another very special interview edition  hello and i am andy mcnab so let's get started so welcome to another brilliant  interview episode of the electronic   cafe before i get into the meat of the  show just want a couple of mentions um i made an announcement just recently that we've  had a couple of milestone moments so the facebook   community has now passed over a thousand members  our youtube channel just over 3000 subscribers   cannot believe how we're just growing really fast  now it's starting to get real momentum but i just   want to say on behalf of mark and myself a massive  thank you to every artist every person we've met   from this channel um and the feedback we get is  just so brilliant so i just want to say on behalf   of mark and myself thank you if you've got friends  that you feel should know more about us and check   on that and appreciate our music out 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i   have to say what a lovely lovely guy super smart  super funny um just a brilliant musician and be   prepared to be absolutely wowed by his collection  of synthesizers that you'll see when we go when   you see the interview absolutely stunning but  you know absolutely just one of the nicest guys   you could wish to make was an absolute pleasure  to spend the morning chatting with him and he's   this amazing piece of work you haven't got this  album yet you need to because it's really really   really good so sit back and enjoy our interview  with a brilliant peter fitzpatrick aka circuit 3. the most striking bit on the cover as well  peter is that mine seems to be signed by   somebody and that is doesn't so i think  once well you see i i i is quite upset   but i would i would actually send that  album back to analog trash because   whoever wrote on that now should be ashamed of  themselves oh well okay so i've got a forgery be drink only friends the overviews okay everyone welcome to another interview  edition of electronic cafe and today we   have a guest that we've been loving and pushing  since there's a release of the price of nothing   and the rather brilliant value of everything um  a couple of years back and now he's got a new   newly released album technology for youth look at  it there it's the electronic cafe the brilliant   circuit free well better thank you patrick  peter welcome to china cafe my friend it's so   dear mark to finally meet you i am  delighted to be here because i've been   i've been following the channel for some time and  i've seen i've seen who you've interviewed so i   part of me is thinking somebody is going to tap  me on the shoulder in a minute and say sorry but   there's there's something more interesting than  you coming along here will you just get off so   stop now no no listen he's  bringing have you in this new album   yeah technology for you it sounds fantastic  you must be really pleased with this i yeah so   there's a bit of a there's a little bit of a  history around the album to answer your question   yeah i'm i'm sort of i'm in the middle of what  feels like a storm around this album where while   i was doing the last album price of nothing value  of everything yeah i i got fed up halfway through   for various reasons and i thought okay  i'm not enjoying this go do something   different and i started to write other songs  that clearly did not fit into the last album   um but all of a sudden after a couple of months  i realized oh thematically these are starting   to work together so i actually wrote a lot  of it while i was recording the last album   and i just put it i just parked it put it on  hold and said right let me finish this album   and i'll do that and then i as soon as the last  album went down um i completely neglected really   doing pr for it uh which is to my probably to my  detriment but i i went out i just went came back   in here and said i have to finish this this these  songs and the little uh instrumentals and stuff   and so it has taken all in all it's taken about  four years to do and i think the the longest the   most difficult part was just the the the supply  chain issues with vinyl production because   i had plans for it i i knew exactly how i wanted  to present it out to anybody who buys music and   i've got a i've got a following of fans and i  wanted to i wanted to make something that would   delight them visually as well as uh orally  you know so yeah it ended up with the with   the five color variants um you know you can see  you'll actually see here in the band cam page   and where you know you've got all  those different variants there and   i mean they look they look great and you've got  you know you've got like this silver one and then   the one that everybody's gone for is that one  and there's only there's only a couple of those   left the sunrise one and the other one that  everybody went for was the blue and white one   this one yeah yes that's the one you got yeah  so it was um you know it was just um the way i   visually i had the vision for it which i think is  important and then of course the cd and everything   so i try what was what's what i did this time  which i had never done before i so-called road   tested the songs so i i joined the pandemic um i  started doing live stream shows which is something   i'd thought about doing and finally and then  realized okay well now's the time to do it so i   i rigged up a couple of little gopro type  cameras in the studio and a switcher and stuff   and just started doing these live streams um  which were were fun it's kind of saved my sanity   during the pandemic and i just i discovered  i have a fan base out there because really   and other artists will probably tell you this  you just make the stuff you put it out there   you might get to chat to people who've heard it  but you're in this little bubble and you don't   know does anybody actually listen to this yeah  and and it turns out bloody do which was great i i i knew there was i knew i had something  because i i i didn't hate it and um i played   it to a couple of trusted people and they said  yeah go for it i did re-tweak a few of the mixes   and i realized okay i need to talk to a couple  of labels about this and analog trash within a   couple of days we said yeah let's let's work  together and uh which is great because i i i   i know they're i know they're artists and i know  them as a label and then i brought in shameless   promotion to help out as well because as you  can probably tell i'm keen just to get back to   work in the next album which i've already  started writing and what i love doing to pr   it's the organization of it i'm not great  at it and so i'm so glad to have shauna   out there just doing that for me and of course  analog crashed themselves or setting up things so   no i i'm i'm just thrilled with the reception  yeah you should be proud of it i mean you know   as soon as i put it on and mark said  the same as soon as you hear it you   just fall in love with it every  train thank you so much texture   beautiful sounds really great thought-provoking  lyrics i mean you know there's obviously a massive   sort of small it's like a love letter to that  space area you know yeah yeah i think we're all   we're all of a certain age i mean yeah yeah i  know you're older than you but i mean i'm yeah   i'm fascinated by it yeah early space race and the  apollo and gemini and i've got books on nasa and   all that stuff so yeah this kind of um technology  for the youth album this is she's kind of aimed at   that era i was all over that yeah me too i mean i  i i like i i grew up i was born in the mid 60s and   i grew up i remember watching the moon landing i  was very very young and i do remember watching it   and i was just obsessed with space and science  fiction and as a kid if you ask me what i wanted   to be when i grow up it was always oh i'm going  to be an astronaut yeah and then and then reality   kicked in and thought yeah it's a bit dangerous  i won't do that and so i but i was i was in love   with science fiction all and also i think around  the time i was writing it there was a couple of   things happening a lot of the apollo anniversaries  were happening it was 50 years since so i was   seeing some of the stuff on tv and i observed a  couple of things when when it was we were getting   uh i'm not very well educated in history but  what i did observe was it's kind of like who   invented the telephone and people automatically  say alexander graham bell well alexander gray   bell was the person who first patented it  which is not quite the same thing and it was   so with a space race there is the official  story which is heavily influenced by you know   us media and then there all the other stories  and that's what started grabbing my attention   because i started looking at it and thinking so i  heard about i read about ed dwight for example the   first black african-american who was supposed  to be in the space program was supposed to go   in one of the apollo missions and didn't and  i thought to my shame i'd never heard of him   and and that's what the song space walking is  about him and in the live show i use video of   ed and it kind of explains what went on putting  it politely he was shafted by nasa and the us   government and it's shameful and when i started  reading those stories of what else is out there   yeah and then then you get into conspiracy  theory stuff which was the best fun ever it's time to begin let's go i would i would fall into youtube and wikipedia  rabbit holes and i would have to write things down   and just so i could go back to them and i  was it was picking out sort of key words for   me that i thought oh yeah that'll jump out in  the lyric that'll jump out the lyric and then   it would just get into this story so it's uh and  so each of the songs has got something behind it   and uh yeah and i think that helps because  um i i think when you're singing it then   you're you're relating the story which it makes it  a bit easier yeah did it start out as as one song   or did you always have it in mind that it would  be kind of like a concept album you know that was   the form it would take so what happened a thing  that happened about let me see i first met her   six years ago so i'm sure you  know hannah peale who is just   it's just an amazing artist and i i got to  meet her and chat with her for a few minutes a   few years ago and we've had the odd message you  know online i'm not even an acquaintance but uh   it was uh i i did the journey to cassiopeia you  know album and i wanted and i was listening to   that i thought yeah gosh i'd love to be able to  do something like that and i said that out loud   to somebody who said peter you are able to do  it you just haven't done it so i thought yeah   and as as the song started as all these space  race themes started coming into these songs i   thought ah so this is it this is what's happening  so i i then made sure that if i was gonna spend   the limited free time i have for writing music  in doing that i would orient myself toward those   stories and it almost became a race to try and  capture as many stories that i was interested in   until i had enough material for an album so it was  it was intentional but it didn't start out that   way yeah it was kind of just a very happy accident  and i'm in no way comparing myself to han appeal   but she was really inspirational and in a couple  of the messages she sent to me just i just thought   yeah she's right i should think about it  differently and i'm glad i did i mean you've   got you've got the public service broadcasting  race for space and you've got daniel speech by omd   yeah there's a there's a few albums out there  which go along the same lines i mean you're you're   always going to be under you had tough competition  there wasn't you you weren't yeah you did it   well i've flattered to be mentioned  in that sort of space but it's   pardoned upon but it's a um it's a it's i think  i think when you when you look at that and you you just see there is a there's a really  great scene to mine with all of that   because there's so much in it like even  the album title for example so you know   omd just got slagged off by journalists for  tesla girls oh they're making up words now and   i remember that happening and i'm thinking really  just don't display your ignorance for everybody to   see yeah and so you know that that was going on  and then i thought yeah i need to capture little   little phrases and things and i ended up looking  at i thought i want to have a soviet inspired   image and visual and aesthetic around this and  i found this magazine called technology for the   youth which has been around since the early 50s  mid 50s and it's this wonderful i i describe it as   washed out pastel color uh you know low-cost  print yeah and if you if you just even go   searching for technology for you you'll see the  images and they're just so wonderful and there's   a mixture of propaganda in there but also pure  science and a little bit of science fiction in it   um and that's where the title came from and  it was all it all just started coming together   rather too easily and maybe it was because i i  just i had that focus and i i knew i was going   to be searching for all of this stuff so maybe  that's why it worked but it does feel like it came   together quite easily yeah it's a great looking  album cover and you're right but that you know the   the 1960s russian propaganda posters for the space  race and yeah and other things yeah is visually   great i mean franz ferdinand used it didn't they  uh yeah yeah they did that they they did the the   very the the yeah it's the like forward rusher  type stuff and it's like it's a striking cover i of mean yeah my daughter alison is a is an artist um  allison did all of this and there's little hidden   things in there like the astronaut cosmonaut we're  not sure on the left if you look is actually dead   yeah the skull yes yeah so they go with the  lost cosmonauts conspiracy theory which we   deal with in the song transmissions yeah um  and then you know it's like the tape sticking   on it it's almost like the how the designers  were just at to some extent they were building   the aircraft on the runway with some of this  stuff yeah and you know bakelite components and   gaffer tape like how many gigs have we done  where everything is held together gaffer tape the most striking bit on the cover as well  peter is that mine seems to be signed by   somebody and andy doesn't so i think  once well you see and he's quite upset   i would i would actually send that album  back to analog trash because whoever wrote   on that now should be ashamed of themselves  oh well okay so i've got a full drink sorry   so so addy we will definitely we will definitely  have to meet and i will make sure to sign that out you sign my first one so it's fine did i oh great   you might wait did you get your  signed no he went all right everyone it's great mate i'd listen about it and i'm sure there's people watching thinking  does that matter i collect vinyl it does it does   matter that's why i i'm flattered when somebody  asks me to deface their album when we make but   honestly i just love you just going back so i  read some of you in rock bands back in the day   about that journey oh a photograph a photograph  appeared on social media three or four days ago   oh really and it's on my timeline if you  care to look for it i must i'll i'll try   and post it on the circuitry facebook page  and maybe on twitter so it's from late 1988   and there's a row of people one of whom is um  a former member of thin lizzie and then there's   at this um this very youthful looking  individual with with long peroxide blond hair   who is not that far from a roland synthesizer  over on the stage and it's me so yeah i am   so when i was in university uh i i was in a  band of course and i was approached by somebody   after a gig in dublin asking me look would you be  interested in joining something that's a paying   gig and i figured yeah okay so it turned out it  was former thin lizzy drummer drummer brian downey   um and i thought it was cool um and i i knew you  know like any kid growing up in ireland in the 70s   you know you knew lizzy where yeah and but i  wasn't a i wasn't i wasn't an obsessive fan which   probably helped because it meant i wasn't asking  questions all the time and we had to just get   down to it and learn the songs um and it worked  out great because i being in university paying   my hr university i was working in a supermarket  packing shelves a couple of nights a week and   all day saturday and after the first gig i did  i realized i'd earned more for a two hour gig   um than i did for a full day and a couple of  nights in the supermarket so i i went i went   into work the next day and handed him my notes  and said right i've joined the band good luck wash away the and gary moore the late gary moore came down to  the gig one night we did a residency in dublin   and he came down to the gig one night just to try  and persuade brian to go on the road with him and   um gary walked up the stairs we played upstairs  and i was setting up with the guitar player and   i had my back to the door and you know typically  you'll get people coming in asking to see brian to   one of the scientific lizzy album or whatever  and some voice comes in is is brian there and   i said no he'll be here later we're setting up if  you wait down in the bar and the guitar player is   looking at me and his draw his jaws just dropped  and he said you just told gary moore to f off   downstairs man and i said and for that i almost  responded yeah well just so we showed that i   went oh crap whatever just done and he was he was  well he was quite popular at the time because he   had he just had a hit single uh the loner and he  played he actually played with us that night and   there was so this is pre-mobile phones you have to  understand and there was one pay phone in the pub   where we played we played up there was a big venue  upstairs and the line of lads who would come in   every week phoning around dublin saying you have  to come in tonight you have to come in tonight   the place was rammed people up the street and  it was good fun i mean we played with him and   eric bell who was the original guitar player in  the band he played in whiskey to jar and stuff   but the only stuff i ever asked brian about was  the stuff that went on with um you know around   the area here of the blitz club and all of that  because he was living in london at the time and   he knew rusty um and but also i wanted to ask him  about mage because mitch had been in thin lizzy   and he was telling me that he told me two things  he said first of all he he guided me she kind of   looked after him and said no you don't want to go  to that party and midge had a little small little   road case with him on tour and he was doing stuff  in this hotel room and i was fascinated by all of   this and you know in my in my mind i was thinking  god if mitch came to dublin someday maybe come and   check out brian i might get to play with him of  course that never happened but um that was the   one the one thing i would i wish i wish could  have happened um but i got to ask him about all   of that and he would he would explain to me  about the concept the push and the beat and   the sort of things that you you need somebody to  teach you so brian was great and i i see i saw   him a couple of years ago he's doing wonderful but  yeah that's what i did all the rock and blue stuff   with a junior 106 which was great i got away with  it and long haired out there not at all electronic   i mean he'd worked with tony visconti  for crying out loud yeah and and like i   grilled him about that and just like it's it's  amazing when somebody has been in that orbit   and has worked with those people they learn a  lot of stuff and whether you like that type of   music or not it's which is irrelevant the the  fact that they understand production techniques   and songwriting like he explained the boys are  back in town to me yeah the song that everybody   knows so anybody who doesn't know lizzy boys are  back in town it's from toy story it's used in all   of these american stadiums so brian cole wrote  that with feline he explained to me it's actually   four different songs that they were working on and  i've seen i i've done a bit of that the beatles   used to do that like the side two of abby road  with all these sort of half-inch songs and it's   actually and the next time you listen to the boys  are back and down you suddenly realize oh yeah   it's there's there's one song they were trying to  finish there's another and they just joined them   together which was for the year that it came out  and for the type of music they were doing that was   really clever and innovative and it resulted  in a huge hit single for them so you learned   stuff like that and that was the first  time i'd ever heard of that being done   yeah i mean i thought you wrote a song from  beginning to end no you don't yeah i like   bohemian rhapsody i mean you could say  that that's not three songs put together when and i ask you this through gritted  teeth looking at what's behind them do you use any software sims  on in your process or do you   you you try and stick with the the analog sims  that the i i do use yeah i do use software since i   i have a it's it's not so much a sponsorship  but i have i have role in cloud um so i have   a vip on that and basically i will use that  because if you're on a laptop and you're away   you need something to work with so no i will use  software since and indeed i'll even use them um   i'll use them live because you have  to travel light so if i'm playing   so if i have to travel somewhere i'm not hauling  any of these with me it's just not going to happen   so i'll use controllers and i'll use soft  since but um by and large i think almost   i'm trying i'm trying to remember if i used  any soft synth on the album i don't think i did   writing it certainly because sometimes it's easier  but increasingly i found myself over the last year   when i'm writing stuff i'm actually doing much  more um mono synth work even though i've got a   stack of poly synths um so just for anybody who's  not familiar with the demonic synthesis where it's   one node at a time and it's led me down on a  certain path um with the textures i'm doing and   the the the type of pieces i'm writing but yeah  i i've and i've been against stuff since i think   there's there's two things going on with the love  of hardware like you can get in and like hit say and you can immediately just touch  it and just change what's going on   yeah and you know it just make it it's that  tactile feeling that was the prophet 10 by   the way so it's that feeling of actually touching  actually let me show you the couple of them here   if you if you like let me see i have a little  handheld camera which may or may not work for me   this is where i get really good pressure get  your credit card out uh so you can't quite see   it at the top there that's the the role in juno  106. so that the first synth i bought was a juno   106 and the voice ships failed mid gig um oh yeah  because there's there was a thing then i got them   replaced i had i was i emigrated to new york and  i lived and worked in new york for a few years   and i had to sell it just to i needed cash um but  i managed to replace it the roland system 8 which   i'm a big fan of if i was to bring us synth to  play live i bring this because it's quite light   and it's got very very brilliant  um recreations of their classic   synths so you know at a push of a button you can  switch to a jupiter eight which is great um this   is the poly synth rack so that's the that's  the sequential ob6 which is the collaboration   between the late dave smith and tom oberheim  and this was the pandemic sid the prophet 10   because i i i wasn't going out so i found myself  with a little bit of cash and went a bit mad   um i've i have a friend who enables me and i if  i ever say to him thinking about buying something   i've put away the money for it he says yeah go do  it so he you know he he's he's enabling my my my   habit here um i think behind me uh i have a lot  of mono synths over there so from the top there's   a pro one which of course is the vince clark  synth all over yazoo's album there's an sh-101   there there's the reissue of the arc odyssey the  with the full-size keys there's the very lovely   moog song the third lay laying down on the left  is the mogs sub and then the one to the right   is a little arturius in um the mini brute which  is the one that i i bring to giggs if i'm ever   going to meet somebody and it's been signed by  all of owen yeah all of omd have signed it vince   assigned it gary newman signed that martin signed  it um and the one person i forgot to bring it with   me was uh tom dalby thomas dalby and i should  kick myself but i'll find another opportunity   anyone else signatures oh there's a quite a few  yeah and there's a there's a lin drum there on   the bottom and a bearing right away and i've  more over there we can get back to those i think   i'm i i try not to overpay so like the juno 106  i managed to get that for a very reasonable price   um and then so a lot of the others you're  just buying them new it's it's it's a very   expensive hobby but it's all it's all i  do i i you know i don't really do an else and a younger man again try  to be a savior a soldier   like you where back then become a night good  guy a wise guy what you don't have to pay some of them are very very good and some of them  are rubbish like the vc 340 over there which is   the vocoder string machine is superb it really is  but i've tried some of the others and they're not   great i'm not a fan of the 101 that they did um  it didn't sound quite right but what i do like   about what they've done is they've enabled this  is something that wasn't available for me when   i was younger they've enabled a whole new group  of people to get into hardware which i think is   brilliant and it's admirable as for that alone we  should appreciate that famously as well um martin   ware was very complimentary about your music  people oh thank you lentima jupiter for didn't you   oh yeah um i had met martin at a heaven 17 show  in the jazz cafe maybe four or five years ago   and glenn as well two very personable people and  we just got chatting and that was it bumped into   him again another heaven 17 show said hello  um i happened to have his email address and   after i read the interview he had said he had  been asking it are you going to use the original   equipment and instruments and the answer was along  the lines of would love to uh we'll try to but we   like for example i don't have a jupiter 4 anymore  and you know it's an integral part of those albums   and i'd have to hire a buy one and i  just thought don't do that here look i'll   lend you mine i just gotten one the previous  year um and i just emailed and i said look you're   welcome to borrow it i'll bring it over and at  first he was like are you sure and i said i want   these shows to go ahead as well so i want to see  i want to see the show happening and he was very   gracious and then the pandemic hit he was meant  to have it for like three or four months and then   at the end of 2019 the problem pandemic it and  bless him you know he uh we we kept in touch   quite a lot martin was great so we i brought  the synth over really i had a lot of time for   martin and glenn musically and politically and we  went out to lunch and stuff and he's he said uh   i said look i i'll probably head off i'm gonna  fly back to dublin in about three or four hours   and he basically said look do you want to come  down we're going to um the groucho club i'm   meeting uh alex james for blur uh joanna do you  want to come along and i just found myself saying   i know it's okay martin just just go ahead there  and then i as i'm walking away to get it to get   trained back to heathrow i said what did you just  do but he was big he was being polite because you   know i would have been a spare wheel there but he  was very he was very appreciative and he listened   to my music and you know um that's what i like  about him there's no us on them with martin and   then during the pandemic we were keeping in touch  and it was a running joke that like you know i   have a jupiter for but it's it's in a bubble  in london and eventually the shows happened   and it was kind of cool looking on the stage  um because you know i grew up in those albums   and yeah i was like wow they're using my bloody  synthesizer to do this and he was playing it   but i've actually got the presets i've saved  as presets and i'm not overwriting them   yeah and they're great and it was all of that  and he's used them in one of the songs i have yes   yeah in the after show after the the travelogue  reproduction gig in the roundhouse we were we were   in the aft show and there was various people  there and i was just chatting with glenn and some reason we started talking about the scent  it had gone out of tune just before the gig or   whatever and i said yeah well martin's sounds are  on it you know what i'm going to do i'm going to   do a song called jupiter city you know toyota city  jupiter city and he started laughing and i said   oh no i am now i'm going to do it the album  hasn't been pressed i could put another track on   and uh and i said at the  martin and he looked at me   like okay whatever you think man but  i i that's basically what i did i um   every sound on jupiter city is one of martin's  presets which which was just i just wondered could   i actually pull this off could i get away with it  yeah i got away with it that's a great thing to do so also listening to your music i mean is  classic era synth pop we we know that   you must be kraftwerk thomas dolby depression  yeah all of them all of those all those classic   classic artists and you know what you do does  have that dna going through it so that's why we   love it but you also covered in its entirety  the upstairs at eric's album the yazoo album   which yeah which i think is one of the great  clubs one of the best great albums of the 80s   it really it really it really is yeah it really  is um so anybody who knows me i bored him to tears   with it i'm a huge yazoo fan they were my band  when i was 15 16 17. i i actually did that for me  

well i wasn't going to release it um i did it for  me and i got some guest vocalists in because i   thought let's just make it a bit more interesting  than just listening to me and you know i that   was a some people like the album some people  don't like it and i can understand why because   when somebody touches a sacred scripture and  you start you know putting it in comic sans font   you think why did you do that so i i i  intentionally didn't try to be original   with the arrangements because you know  what you can't improve on perfection   and i didn't have much time i wanted to get it  out but when i read when i agreed like okay i will   put this out i wanted to time it with the it was  the 30th or 35th anniversary or something of it   and i thought no i'll just i'll just stick  with the way they did it because it sounded   great and have great fun doing it um it's sold  out like i did this lovely little metal tin and   my daughter alison did the artwork where it's the  american footballer from the only you single and   um the um in the bath from the bathroom from the  nobody's diary sleeve yeah and i i managed to meet   alison moyer before dublin's show uh and gave her  a copy and she was laughing saying she was just   talking about the nobody's diary cover to somebody  and she loved it i got a hug so that was you know   my 16 year old my 16 year old self thought that's  it i can retire now she was most gracious a   truly uh wonderful wonderful human being  um and you know delight that she signed a   load of stuff abroad with me including my  live aid program and uh she she said to me   you're too young to have been at live aid and  i said please tell my friends tell my friends where she came and then i got a copy to vince  and i very funny um i had   there was a there was a running joke when  he started the very records twitter account   and yeah i said i replied said oh welcome  to twitter where can i send my demo tape   and he replied to me saying i'll need a tape  machine for said dental tape and i thought okay so   i was in the us on a business trip and i brought a  little old tape machine with me and um through his   through his wife tracy i i got she sent me their  home address and i i mailed to him and he was   he he emailed me some months later and said uh  thank you for the for the the yazoo album that's   very complimentary stuff about it uh recommended a  charity that because if i made any money off it i   wanted to go to a charity and then he said oh yeah  thanks for the tape recorder it was useful ish   that's very vincent so i was delighted because  you know both of them have heard it and it was   it was kind of a dream that i had when i was a kid  obsessed with that album um i'm not doing the next   one people have asked me i'm not doing the next  one because i'll get nothing else done but you   know any anybody who's a hardcore fan of this will  do it um and actually i can say it now because   time has passed uh you know deb danahay so deb deb  was vince's girlfriend back then and deb is very   active in social media she she started the so the  first depeche mode gig was for her birthday party   so deb then helped started the pesh fan club  back then and she ran the yazoo fan club   for a long time and uh lovely person she's still  you know somewhat in touch with depeche and   we know each other through social media we've  met a few times she's come to some of my shows   and i i persuaded her for i before e except after  c i persuaded her send me something to put in it   and she said oh don't put my name in it though  cause people will get weird about it and i just   thought finally because everybody like eric's mum  was on the yazoo album but deb who was at some of   these sessions wasn't on it so she finally appears  on a yazoo track which i think is very so she's in   there and i've never mentioned that actually  so if somebody actually finds the azu tribute   thing i did go to i before you accept that to  see and try and spot deb's voice it's in there 17. the broken frame album in its entirety as well  didn't it yeah they did yeah yeah i thought i   i enjoyed that i liked my show a lot and so  what i love about what they did with it they   put their stamp on it i i didn't really do that  i i just for all the reasons i've explained but   i'm on different artists i mean obviously mark  and i set this whole show up to obviously talk   to great people i can also promote new bands is  anyone you're listening to and loving currently   you can share our audience anyone who just brings  to the mind that you kind of love or you've loved   the last few years gosh i've i became obsessed  with roshi and murphy during the pandemic yeah   um i started listening to this artist so when i'm  at work in the home office i can't really listen   to stuff with lyrics it's too distracting um right  there's a lot of rubbish ambient music out there   really poor but i found one person um who actually  was doing live stream shows through the pandemic   um his name is martin sterzer i'll try and put  it in the chat there's two things i love about   martin's music it's all analog instruments um and  he's got no notions about himself to use an irish   expression and he's very modest and i really  love him but also he's got a cat called neptune   who frequently interrupts and just well as he say  like he says playing something the next thing you   know is cat in the middle of the performance  going out to many hundreds of people on youtube   will just sort of walk over sit on the keyboard or  start nudging his hand or whatever and you can't   get rid of them um and you play the game you're  trying to spot neptune where is he sleeping in   the studio but his music is lovely it's um it's  not that wishy-washy ambient stuff he's got   actual melody behind it and he does some berlin  school stuff so martin sterzer is definitely one   and i think there is also an album that  i started listening to again by a dublin   artist called polly droid um whose real name  is brian o'malley he's a film director and   he's a really good friend and i'm glad i have  the cd because it's all out of print i must   try and persuade him to re-release it but it's  probably out there polly droid i think the album   is called a human is only a cell or something i  love that that's all instrumental stuff yeah and   i think nation of language yeah yeah i think  nature of language yeah we saw them in dublin um   and it was yeah and they're coming back they're  back in the in the winter so yeah i'm hoping to   see them again you can't see me again but there's  great recommendations buddy because yeah i'm sure   our guys uh our viewers will go and check those  out so thank you for what's next for circuit three   um well the album is only out matter days um i'm  starting to get the stats coming in from different   streaming services and wow it's kind of getting  a lot of attention so i've got to just ride this   way for a little while longer i'm i'm doing lots  of pr um and we're doing let me see the physical   product is going out so i'm spending a lot of time  going to the post office to send sign sleeves over   to did you say signed ones sorry yeah sign sleeves  because when people buy it and they want it signed   you know they remember in the band camp coming  to ask for it you know i mean i got mine signed   yeah so you did i mean what sort of person  doesn't ask for it to be signed all right   some idiots sorry you're breaking up  yeah you're on mute you're on you um next up is august 21st of course if people  are watching this in 2023 you've missed it   um august 21st 2022 i'm doing a  live stream of the entire album   from the studio um i i've said it out loud and  now i actually have to practice and i've got and   now they're there the fear has just kicked  in what i've realized i've just said that   out loud i'm going to do it so we're working  with uh with the analog trash team to do it   unlike my other live streams we're not doing it on  facebook and youtube etc for various reasons not   least is just how badly they they're treating  artists when you try to do this stuff we're   going to do it through band camp that's that's in  itself is fine they do it and it looks great and   it that will work it just means people have to  go to band camp to see the stream and so we're   going to do the full album from beginning to end  and then i might just do a couple of old songs at   the end so that's on august 21st it'll be at 6 00  pm uk time which is kind of lunch time on the east   coast of america it's just after breakfast time  on the west coast of america but then after that   um we are going to do live gigs in the uk it's  just too soon because summer stuff is still going   on we are going to do some live stuff it will be  around sort of the west yorkshire leeds type area   if i can get invited to a show in london  i would go there at a drop of a hat   um i'm already working on the next two releases  um i've got something special in the pipeline   as well um so there's there's there's actually  three things on the go and then last night   um a local artist got in touch with me and asked  me if i'd help finish a song with them so yeah   i'm gonna be busy getting back into just doing  this i've missed i have missed doing all of this you did an amazing thing last  week when you know a lot of   a lot of people are struggling financially at  the moment and you put that message out saying   oh yeah yeah if anyone wants a download of  the album just get in touch i mean you know   i'm gonna tip my hand give you full kudos for  that thank you that's a great thing to do yeah   thank you i i didn't yeah it's just it's what  you do right look i i've been that broke student   where you just didn't have the money for it and i  want people to hear this like it's like with your   channel you're not doing this because you you want  to make money out of it like there's there's ways   to make money that don't involve nearly as much  effort that you put into the channel right like   if you if it was about money do it and similarly  with me look if i can if i can recoup i could the   label like i'll probably watch it just now saying  peter shut the hell up stop giving stuff away   um but if i can break no they they they're  great they're socialists like me but they   i want people to hear it and i think money is  should not be an acceptable reason for somebody   to not be able to hear something you've made  and also i don't want people having to make a   decision between this sounds pompous but it's  happening people are making a decision about   food or utilities and what they love doing and  it would just kill me if i thought somebody was   not doing something essential because they wanted  to blow some money on their passion and look i   joke about the vinyl selling it is selling  it's not going anywhere fast there'll still   be some copies left and there will be cds so i'm  happy for people just to get the download codes   um because it is just about getting the music  out there um and i've done it before with with   other releases um and actually anybody watching  this look if if if you're if you're prioritizing   your builds you can't be going out buying vinyl  cds or even digital like just send me a message   i'm on i'm on twitter i'm on facebook under  circuit three music twitter circuitry music   just send me a note i'll happily send a couple  of download calls i want people to hear this   um you know it's your spot on that's a great  gesture and uh yeah it is a great gesture it's uh   well received i think yeah yeah we will do  another promo for the album so people want   about environment if we just say if they send  you notes to sign it and i'm not taking the what i do is i've held a few sleeves back  in dublin most of the physical stock is with   analog trash but i i have some and i just i just  sign them and i know i'll send i send them over   so it's no it's not it's no problem at all it  delays the shipment a few days because i have nice yeah did i use the gold pen for that was that was that was that the  gold sharpie i used on that one   i've got the black shell it was beautiful  yeah the gold sharpie is for the the vip sales   one final question yeah of two actually where  did the name circuit three come from ah so back   in 2014. so i gave up doing electronic music i  thought nobody wanted to listen to the type of   electronic music i knew how to make because  i used to do it professionally i was when i   lived in new york i was a sound designer and music  composer and i did everything electronically and   i'd given up i had zero confidence in myself  um i had started dipping my toes back in the   water of actually performing as a solo artist so  i got a guitar went out i did a workshop with tom   robinson you know john robinson man which had  heard of through his bbc show and he gave me   great advice great coaching great encouragement  and i went out i started writing songs again just   on the guitar kept it simple and just improved  my confidence a little bit and then i treated   myself to some soft synths and started writing  songs and in the first day what songs came new   blue diary and those who were dancing  came on the first album came in one   day just goofing around with the synths and i  thought i'm enjoying this and i said look just   for once in your life period just do it because  you enjoyed it save it thought not more of it   and i sent one of the songs then to somebody  who didn't realize it was coming from me and   he said oh we're doing a little festival in dublin  you want to play and that's where it all started   and i got back into it just built a bit  of confidence and um i was i thought well   i have to have a name so i chatted with a  friend of mine and he said well circuitry circuitry and basically it was it was a pawn  on the irish accent and how we say circuitry   yeah um i said to oh that's brilliant see i'll  use that and i did a search online nobody else   is using it great register the domain you know  grabbed the youtube channel all of those things   and then i a few months later a  couple of interviews and i realized   this is a stupid idea peter because you have  to explain it to everybody so that's where it   came from it was a joke with a friend about how  we how irish people will say the word circuitry   is a good name with a winner three on the end as  well yeah yeah i should i should have just gone to   um i should have taken the heaven 17 route and uh  the maloco route and just gone through the film um   with clockwork orange and just figured out  is there and that nobody else has taken yet   could i use one of them and i did entertain i did  entertain the thought for for a week or two and   then i thought no that's just no somebody somebody  will have stolen it okay i might the final   question would be what has been the highlight  for circuit three so far i'll give you three   i think seen in the circuit i'll give you three i  think one of them was just getting this album out   because it's it i had this i had  the vision for what i wanted to do   so that's been hugely satisfying i think the  second one is um realization during the pandemic   that i actually had a fan base it's not huge but  i was getting a few hundred people coming out of   time to the youtube shows that was hugely helpful  because i've struggled to get live gigs in ireland   it's that's a whole other story um and it's really  difficult and there's an ageism problem here   and i that was just so satisfying and i was able  to connect with people and then i think the third   one was um as a result of doing my little yazoo  thing i got to chat with and meet vincent and   alison which was such a huge deal a huge deal for  me uh every part of it has just been so rewarding   amazing and you met some incredible musicians  on the journey mate but i mean amazing yeah   i i just yeah it's it's mind-blowing  and then when you meet them you find out   you know how kind they are i mean thomas dolby  we had a great shot because we we he's he's   his adult son is transgender and as is mine and we  had a great chat we were talking as parents which   you know if he said to me at 16 oh you'll meet  thomas dolby and you'll be chatting about your   kids i just thought wow that's uh that's not  going to happen it happened martin and glenn   were just so pleasant so nice um you know any of  those people that i've met have just been great   even gary you would we had a great laugh yeah you  know we me and andy started this i mean we'd never   thought that when we was watching craft work we  would ever get to speak to wolfgang fleur i mean   yesterday we had a little chat with cole bartos  i saw the pictures how how cool was that you know   he was lovely yeah we spoke to martin  well we you know you know you know yeah you mentioned neil arthur there's an artist  who has evolved in the 21st century and he   doesn't get the credit for it which kills me  and you know if there was somebody who in the   realms of possibility i could work with neil  would be very interesting i mean obviously i i   you know talk to people you want to work with  vince clark obviously but that's not going to   happen martin that's not going to happen but neil  maybe because i've observed he does like to work   with new people and the stuff he's putting out  was so good so you know i i i got to meet him   you know do you know the blemange documentary  uh you keep me running round and round no i   haven't cleaned it don't you mention ah there's  a documentary um this is how i met neil um so   long story short they came to dublin the date  was moved i was traveling for business missed   the show but it turns out they were making a  documentary about it which is available online   i'll send you the link to it and the  documentary is a mix it's the blemange   the live show interviews with neil all the rest  of it and then interviews with various members   of the electronic music community in dublin or as  we we used to so everybody had their tribe and we   were the synth heads and i was interviewed in that  and uh met neil that day with during door film in   the interviews and then i went to a blue on show  somewhere in hoxton um and i heard a voice behind   me hello peter it was him he he'd remembered my  name that's the caliber of the man you're dealing   with peter thank you for your time this morning  uh pleasure we genuinely love the album it's a   great thank you it's a great piece of work i mean  um love the sound of it love the concept of it um   we love your stuff in general but we really  appreciate your time no no this is this has been a   ton of fun a ton of fun more people should come on  this channel definitely absolutely great to meet   you and uh let us know about those dates and i  will we'll happily come up to north to see you man   we're where it's grim i believe it's grim i'm  not gonna stay in too much got a lot of friends   at that part of the world my daughter's living  up that way now she'll kill me for saying that   i'm i'm going to play with my sins now because  it's it's saturday i'm going to play it all   since you might get your knock on  the door a bit later for mister brown well you're always welcome to visit dublin  um thank you so much i love you guys definitely thanks looking forward to  it take care enjoy the rest of the day but something's not quite right so that's it for another brilliant interview  edition of the electronic cafe i hope you enjoyed   markham's conversation with the very talented  peter fitzpatrick circuit 3 peter thank you again   mate for coming on absolutely enjoyed every second  of our conversation hope to see you soon and you   know i hope you're coming over here to play some  live gears because we will definitely be there to   see you right we'll see you very soon uh next  episode of the electronic cafe in the meantime   again thank you for all your amazing support  stay safe we'll see you soon bye bye for now   thanks peter it was a real pleasure talking to  you and hopefully this episode shines a light on   the brilliant music of circuit 3. thanks again for  watching see you all next time take care bye bye

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