THIS YEAR’S MODEL

In a candid and at times emotional interview, John Mitchell reveals the personal traumas – old and new – that went into the making of A Model Life, his harrowing yet ultimately uplifting fifth album as Lonely Robot.

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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…

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