As he releases his candid memoir, The Lightning Seeds front man shares his complicated thoughts on 'Four Lions' and how grief over his brother's suicide changed his life for ever
As he releases his candid memoir, The Lightning Seeds front man shares his complicated thoughts on “Four Lions” and how grief over his brother’s suicide changed his life for everwas finished before it had even really begun. It was 1989, and his debut single “Pure” – a song Broudie recorded mostly by himself in his spare room and was limited to just 300 copies for sale – was about to be played by influential Radio 1 DJBroudie sat next to the radio expectantly as song started up.
Broudie, 65, has a gift for what he calls “the bittersweet thing”. Where does that come from? “I’m a miserable bastard and I’m desperately trying not to be,” he says laughing. “I’m a person who finds it hard to live in the moment. So I’m really trying to err on the positive. I don’t want to give in to the negative, because that’s my natural habitat.”His excellent new memoirreads like one of his own songs: full of heart and sparkling melancholy.
But he admits to being nervous about the book, as he didn’t intend to reveal quite so much of himself. “I’m a little unguarded and I didn’t mean to be. When I did the audiobook, I kept saying, ‘I don’t think I want to share that, can I take it out?’” It meant at Eric’s, the famous Liverpool nightclub at the centre of the punk scene, he was more reserved and self-conscious than many of the “larger than life” characters. “I think I just felt outside of everything. I felt a little bit alone. Some people weren’t great to you. I think that made me extra cautious. And I think that tends to keep your head down. You don’t want to be the frontman. You want to be the guy behind the frontman.
“It’s like Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’,” he says, of another misread song. “It’s just about the tournament – it couldn’t be more straightforward. But songs do take on a different meaning. And I’m okay with that. Because it’s not mine anymore.” While he had success producing The Coral and The Zutons, it proved to be a dark period for Broudie. In a few years in the early noughties, he had a series of bereavements: both his parents in quick succession; his sister Sharon at 44 from a brain tumour, and then his older brother Robert from suicide shortly after in 2006. It left him feeling like “one wing is broken”.
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