Clive Ives Tells Woo’s Story To Outside Left

Outside Left recently spoke with Clive Ives, one half of the pioneering experimental act Woo, who are at radio now with a new Independent Project Records reissue of their debut Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong. About the origins of the group, Ives says it started when his older brother Mark got his first guitar. “I was very impressed as a sort of 10 year old going, wow, he’s actually strung a few chords together and written a song! So he has always been, in a way, more the real musician. But we just started doing music together, and then when I’m about 18 or 19, I found one of the first Roland synthesizers that became commercially viable for about 300 quid. And I bought that. He bought a tape recorder, and off we went, really.,, We were, like so many people, big fans of things like Kraftwerk, but they did that very sort of German, clean, electronic, really precise thing. And we went more into more organic electronics, which just had more unpredictable flow to it.”

There’s much more to the interview, which is available here.