Before Richard Ashcroft jumped off stage at Splendour, he hung up on me

…during an interview. And after 6 minutes as well. All in all, I think I got to hear more of Richard’s voice than some Splendour punters.

After the declaration that his new album (currently the worst reviewed album by consensus on Metacritic) would be “One of the biggest hip-hop records of all time”, I asked him about how he felt when lesser bands quote his work as inspiration. The verbatim of his answer was:

I understand now, in retrospect, how much more time and things are involved in life and your meat and your genes and your environment and mix it all up and what have you. So there are many many more obstacles in the way of you ever making something of real worth anyway. I could…

And then it ended. It may have been a power failure or he may have gotten sick of me. All I know is that after emailing their publicist and my editor about the issue, it was never spoken of again.