Robert John Ardiff: ‘I like it where you have the dirt on the tape’

Robert John Ardiff: 'I normally play a Gibson SG, which is about 20 times better than the guitar I found in my mother’s attic'

‘How are you meant to enjoy sex and a relationship?’ The reality of living with your parents in your 30sWhen he took it home and played it he felt an instant connection. The guitar’s sound was “nothing amazing”, he says, “but I like it where you have the dirt on the tape”. In other words, the instrument’s imperfections matched the sounds he wanted for his songs.

So the album includes snippets of singers from Barcelona and Rome, and of a musician in the eastern French town of Dole. “A musician friend of mine in Dole introduced me to a trumpet player, and one night we just set up the four-track in the room and pressed record. He played some beautiful trumpet pieces, and we sampled bits of them.”

Hewson, Gordon-Levitt, Carney and his regular song cowriter Gary Clark then “went into the studio with my bare bones of the lyric, the verses, the chorus, and then shaped it”. The influence, says Ardiff, was the John Prine and Iris Dement duet In Spite of Ourselves. The result was Meet in the Middle, a folk-pop song of no small charm that is typical of Ardiff’s natural inclination for tuneful subtlety.

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