Chords for End Of The Road 2017: Father John Misty on Ryan Adams and Stealing Kendrick Lamar's Stage show

_ _ _ _ Hello, we are here at End of the Road with Father John Misty, Joshua Tillman.
How are you doing? _
Fantastic.
Oh great, perfect answer to that question.
You just asked me that off camera so I can't fake it again.
Don't tell them, don't ruin it.
I'm fine.
Smoke and mirrors, it's going to be fine.
This is your first ever festival headline set.
Yeah.
What is in store, pyro?
Yeah, lot of fire.
I was actually bummed when I saw Kendrick Lamar's VMA's performance because that's to
the T what I had planned for this.
So, kind of stole my thunder.
Anything else?
No, no.
I mean outside of Kendrick Lamar, you know, guesting.
Okay, shh, we won't tell anyone.
Well this is coming out after the fact so it's fine.
Yeah, we'll all know then.
It's going to be [Em] amazing.
Yeah.
I can't wait.
Have you had a chance to roam across the festival [N] field and assess the vibe or have you been
ensconced in the backstage area?
Well, I've been ensconced.
Yeah.
Okay.
Like I'm here under, there's a heavy military presence here keeping me.
They're just off camera.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
There are some healing fields out there.
Will you be going to get healed?
Are you needing any healing?
Oh yeah, that's what I do.
I do like that about the English festivals is you can like, _ you look at the schedule
and it's like, come discuss mortality at the existential cafe.
_ I've never actually gone and been able to do anything like that.
I've heard of a croquet lawn so you can just have a game of croquet.
I can't go out there because everybody thinks I'm James Bay so they freak out.
I see it.
I see it.
It's very similar.
There's also an ethical alpaca knitwear stall.
Oh, cruelty free alpaca?
Mm-hmm.
Finally.
The best kind.
Finally.
A Mac DeMarco headline last night.
Are you a fan of Mac DeMarco?
Yes, very much so.
What do you like about Mac DeMarco's vibe?
He's just a sweet guy.
Yeah.
He's like a really sweet guy.
_ I love that new record.
_ _ Yeah, he's great.
I heard that he_
I wasn't here last night but [G] some guys from my band were.
_ _ They watched _ him and then at the end of the show he crowd surfed and they all went to watch Pond.
By the time they got to Pond, to the other stage, he was just getting off _ the crowd of surf.
Indeed.
_ He made a 20 minute journey across the entire_
Yeah, and then he was like, I think my bus is leaving.
When did you last crowd surf?
_ _ _ _ I kind of _ like_
I'm not sure I've ever surfed across_
Have you waded?
Yes, it's more of like a wading pool situation where I fall down and then they kind of maybe
do a 180.
My crowd is_
I think they're concerned because I'm quite a bit older [Em] than Mac DeMarco.
[N] So I think they're like, we better get grandpa back on stage as quickly as_
We don't want him to get hurt.
So you're a fan of Mac.
You're also a fan of LCD Sound System.
_ You were singing their praises the other day.
What do you love about the new _ tracks?
I'm really terrible at_
I'm really good at saying what I don't like.
I'm not so good at talking about what I_
But I kind of prefer it that way.
When you really like something, I feel like it should sort of override your rational mind.
It just took you to another place.
But I just_
You know, I _ _ think_
You know, I just don't listen_
I don't even really know that much of his _ kind of canonical music.
You're not a fan from the early days.
I just really randomly_
You just heard it and thought, this is good.
I really _ randomly started listening to it.
I think_
I mean, there's definitely some_
I think in some way it was like, oh, that's how you do it.
In terms of like_
Because I feel like I had sort of, with this album, had made an attempt at _ _ distilling some
of those modern anxiety or whatever.
And I think he just did like_
Just kind of ran a master class in terms of how to do that.
So that's great.
How do you feel about the song End of the Road by Boyz II Men?
I don't know it.
It's a classic.
I have like _ major_ Given _ _ my_
In the 90s, I was listening to Christian.
We've talked about this before.
We have indeed, yes.
Yeah, yeah. _
The new album.
You've discussed this in Australia.
You said on stage a couple of months ago that you're about to mix it.
Oh, new [G] record.
Yeah, new record.
Not the new one [N] that came out at the beginning of the year, the next.
How's it all going?
Are we almost done?
Yeah, it's pretty much done.
There's one song I have to _ _ _ put a new bass synth part on.
Okay, important.
Yeah.
What's wrong with the one at the moment?
Spending hours _ just screaming, crying in frustration, going through synth patches, trying to find
the right one.
I'll do that for you.
But then once that's done, we're all done and dusted?
Yeah.
And how many songs?
Can you tell us anything thematically?
Are we dealing with the grand theme?
It's got 10 songs. 10 songs.
Neat.
Yeah.
Concise?
Yeah.
I _ wanted to_
I was just kind of _ _ like_
Yeah, there is no_
The last two records, I'd say, were kind of pretentious, but were squarely concept records
that are sort of like a singular theme and whatever.
But this one is not.
Okay, more freeform.
So there's no [F] kind of linking theme?
Just [N] 10 tunes, _ kind of sprightly BPMs.
Sprightly?
Yeah.
And anything else you can tell us about it?
Or are we gonna keep it under your hat?
That's fine.
And next year for a release, I'm assuming?
And is Jonathan Wilson producing?
No, I produced it myself this time, because he's on tour with Roger Waters.
Oh, well that's_ He's busy.
It's gonna take up some time, isn't it?
Is there a working title?
I can't tell you.
But there is.
It's the NME.
I can't believe you haven't asked me about Ryan Adams' Twitter beef yet.
_ So how's things with you and Ryan? Nice segue.
Have you kissed and made up yet?
[C#] _ No, it's_
_ God only knows where that_
I don't know where that came from.
I really don't.
Do you know each other, or is there just a_
He used to text me a lot.
Oh, okay.
Has he been a sparring_
I hope he's okay.
[N] Yeah.
I hope he's okay.
What's your favorite conspiracy theory? _
_ _ _ _ _ Conspiracy theory?
_ Oh, there was one_
Somebody told me a conspiracy theory _ that was like Taylor Swift is the actual daughter
of Anton LaVey's daughter and was like switched with JonBenet Ramsey.
Oh, you're bringing JonBenet into it.
You can Google this.
I know about the Anton LaVey daughter.
They look very similar.
It's incredible.
Yeah, you can _ easily Google a ball.
Okay, and do you think it's true?
No.
Okay.
No.
Fair enough.
Absolutely, categorically not true.
Well, thank you very much.
My pleasure.
Enjoy the show tonight.
Great to see you again.
You too.
Have a good one.
Cheers. _ _ _