Today I have the absolute pleasure of talking with Philip Oakey, part of the trio - along with Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall - that makes up that iconic band, The Human League! Although most people recall The Human League and immediately think '80s, the truth is they are a band who have been active, either making new music or playing live shows, almost continuously since their inception. In between tour dates I caught up with Philip to talk about their latest album, the beginning of MTV, and the hard work of everything in between.
(Total plus? Listening to his sexy English accent. HOT!)
How are you today?
I'm good, thank you.
So tell me about the new album, Credo.
Well, we just decided it was time to return more or less to our roots. In Britain we've been sort of a bit swamped with guitar records for a few years and there seemed a little opportunity - people have maybe gotten a little bit bored with the guitar stuff again - to do a synthesizer album. So we went out and did it.
Do you have a theme to the album?
The theme's more what it's based on and it's just the fact that it's based on old synths. Sort of new recording methods and so on but more of a sort of celebration of what got us into music in the first place. Which was, you know, synthesizers becoming available for the first time.
