'Postcards From A Young Man, it came pretty late... it felt like it needed it to make the album sound complete. Y'know, you can hear in it records like Design For Life, and maybe even Second Great Depression off Send Away The Tigers. Lyrically, it's just my fascination really with the west of Wales and looking back at my old postcards from James and Sean and Richey, and my mum. Y'know, my mum used to do this thing where if I couldn't go to a gig, say if The Smiths were playing at St David's Hall, she'd send a postcard saying "Oh, my son's really ill, can you send him a postcard?", not that I was, so I've got all these brilliant ones off Morrissey, and there's one off The Jesus And Mary Chain when Bobby Gillespie saying "Get well soon, from Jesus Christ". I was literally 14 and 15 at the time... got one off PiL, a really nice one off John Lydon and stuff... my mum she was ahead of the game.'
'Postcards From A Young Man, it came pretty late... it felt like it needed it to make the album sound complete. Y'know, you can hear in it records like Design For Life, and maybe even Second Great Depression off Send Away The Tigers. Lyrically, it's just my fascination really with the west of Wales and looking back at my old postcards from James and Sean and Richey, and my mum. Y'know, my mum used to do this thing where if I couldn't go to a gig, say if The Smiths were playing at St David's Hall, she'd send a postcard saying "Oh, my son's really ill, can you send him a postcard?", not that I was, so I've got all these brilliant ones off Morrissey, and there's one off The Jesus And Mary Chain when Bobby Gillespie saying "Get well soon, from Jesus Christ". I was literally 14 and 15 at the time... got one off PiL, a really nice one off John Lydon and stuff... my mum she was ahead of the game.'