k-punk

As a keyboard player, or guitar player, or bass player, I’m decent at what I do, but there’s times when people in church get into it, and the feeling comes, and the spirit comes, and you can play way beyond your ability. In fact, you know the bass pedal on the organ? I always have trouble with it. I have to look down and play the bass, it’s difficult but when the spirit comes you don’t have to look down, your foot be moving, so at the point you realise that I ain’t really playing this organ. So it’s the same with a track. If the spirit come when you make a track, the question then becomes ‘Is it really you making the track?’

From the unedited transcript of my interview with Mike Banks , now up on the Wire website…