What happened with this is luck.”Įlliott agreed that the move to work with Ghost was “never a career thing”. “You cannot just point at one beautiful boy and one beautiful girl and say, ‘You two should totally fuck’ to create a love child. “Everything for me is about vibing,” continued Forge. The rest of the time, we were just hanging out and talking.” “We were there for about four hours but we were only filming for maybe an hour. “The fact we’ve got this great song and then we ham it up with a bit of karaoke was just hilarious,” said Elliott of the video. The result replaces Ghost’s typically numbered webisodes with ‘Meanwhile In Dublin’. Luckily the landlord knows me, so they were more than happy to accommodate, and Tobais directed it like Steven fucking Spielberg.” So he compromised, bless him.Įlliott added: “He came over to Dublin and we went to my local which is about a mile and a half from my house. “So when Tobias pitched the idea of making a video, of course I said yes but I couldn’t actually go anywhere because I was looking after my kids. “We realised we had a lot of common ground,” explained Elliott. The recording was done, but the first phone call between Forge and Elliott still lasted nearly three hours. “If I was going to sing ‘Blackbird’ by The Beatles, I wouldn’t be changing the melody because it’s already perfect. ’Spillways’ was never broken to begin with, so I wasn’t going to come in and change what he had originally done. Certain people have said they can’t tell Tobias and I apart – but I take that as a compliment. I’m from Yorkshire but I don’t sound like it because wasn’t cool until Arctic Monkeys came along. I was surprised by how similar we sounded though.”Įlliott agreed: “I think we do sound similar. “What he put on it was so different from what I had, but it still gelled. “I instantly thought it was amazing and Joe’s vocals really add another layer to the song,” he said. CREDIT: Medios y Media/Getty Imagesįorge described to NME how he was “blown away” he first heard Elliott’s vocal on the reworked track. Joe Elliott, singer of Def Leppard, performing during a concert between Def Leppard and Motley Crue bands, at Estadio Banorte on Februin Monterrey, Mexico. As soon as I knew a collab was probably going to happen, I just got on with it.” It was the flagship moment for me, on what is a fantastic album. The keyboard intro blew me away the first time I heard it – with a band like Ghost having the balls to do something so unexpected like recording a hybrid of ‘Jane’ by Jefferson Starship and ‘Hold The Line’ by Toto. By the time we finally got to speak, I had already recorded ‘Spillways’ because I was chomping at the bit.”Įlliott continued: “I love that song so much. “So I grabbed the bull by the horns and just went and sang the fucking thing. “I heard that it was on, but we kept missing each other because of how busy we both were,” said Elliott.
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