Electronic Sound May 2015 (Regular Edition) | Page 15

PAT POPE’S
‘FAT OF THE LAND’
PORTRAITS, PARIS 1997

“That was a really good place for me and I just wanted to get
straight onto this record in the same way as I did the last
one,” he confides. “But the building was fucked and water was
getting in. I had these really heavy velvet curtains covering
the walls all around the room and they started to go mouldy.
After a while, I’d put down loads of riffs, but I didn’t have any
finished tracks. I just thought, ‘Fucking hell, the elements are
against me here’. In the end, Trevor [Horn] wanted to sell up,
but to be fair to him he held off ‘cos I was working on the