THIS YEAR’S MODEL
Steven Wilson recently told John Mitchell that A Model Life – the fifth Lonely Robot record – is his favourite among all the things he’s done. “Steven asked, ‘How long did you spend doing it?’” Mitchell tells Prog with a cackle, “and when I said about four weeks start to finish he said, ‘Fuck off!’ But if you’re getting three hours’ sleep a night, then getting up and working all day, like a robot ironically, that’ll happen. I do get into a trance-like state with music, that’s how I best operate. Writing songs is like catching lightning in a bottle.”
Months after that creative fever, Mitchell’s in a physical one as he talks to Prog. He’s just returned to his Reading home from Berlin where he went to see Queen and Adam Lambert, and caught Covid for the third time. He’s feeling rough, but the past few years have helped him refine ‘buggering on’ to an art form.
“IT ALWAYS SURPRISES ME THAT ANYBODY WOULD LIKE WHAT I DO. I MEAN, I’M GRATEFUL – EVERYBODY NEEDS VALIDATION – AND I
