News of the weird: Apparently President Obama is getting speech inspiration from The Guild League these days. In his speech to a joint session of Congress this week, Obama used the phrase “the quiet burden of their absence” which caused The Huffington Post to report:
“In the most oddball contribution of the speech, this line originates from the Australian pop band The Guild League on their album, Inner North: “The shirtless sky, the burning bricks. The quiet burden of your absence.” I’ll put down money that this song is on the Ipod of Obama’s twenty-seven year old speechwriter, Jon Favreau.”
This puts The Guild League in the same company as John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, and J. R. R. Tolkien according to the newspaper. I told you this was weird…
In other news, the mighty A Layer of Chips fanzine has published a Matinée interview which we have added to the archive page along with a recent interview for Le Popstop. Thanks Sam and Jenny!