![]() ![]() ![]() I'm happy enough to have been influenced by Brian Wilson and to still listen to and enjoy the music he made. I didn't go out of my way to meet Brian, and I wouldn't have wanted to. According to O'Hagan, he attended one meeting with Wilson and two with the Beach Boys, but Wilson's "camp" was unable to reach an agreement with the other Beach Boys. O'Hagan, who thought Wilson's musical talents were best served at reclaiming his title as a "20th-century avant-garde pop genius", had voiced objections to Thomas' desire to instead break Wilson into the adult contemporary market. One of the reasons that the collaboration never happened, by O'Hagan's account, was interference from Wilson's wife Melinda and former wrestler Joe Thomas, who was ultimately chosen to produce Wilson's 1998 solo album, Imagination. Some of the songs that later appeared on the High Llamas' 1998 album Cold and Bouncy were then briefly under consideration to be recorded by the Beach Boys. After Wilson's bandmate Bruce Johnston heard the High Llamas' 1996 album Hawaii, an unsuccessful attempt was made to instead coordinate a collaboration between O'Hagan and Wilson. ![]() In the mid 1990s, Brian Wilson was attempting to organize a comeback album with the Beach Boys and his collaborator Andy Paley. They are scheduled to perform the album The Clock Comes Down The Stairs in full. Coughlan subsequently stated on his website that due to the sellout of the Dublin show, they would be performing a one-off in London as well. On 27 November 2017, it was announced that O'Hagan and Coughlan would reform Microdisney for a one-off concert in the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 2 June 2018. They also worked together on the soundtrack to the film La Vie d'Artiste. In 1996, O'Hagan collaborated with Tim Gane as Turn On, releasing an album of the same name on Drag City Records. He has also collaborated extensively with Stereolab, he was an official member from 1993 to 1994, and is credited as a guest musician on later releases. The High Llamas were influenced by the Beach Boys, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Carlos Jobim and avant-garde electronica. He released a solo album titled High Llamas in 1990, which would become the name of a band he subsequently formed. O'Hagan is a founding member of the Irish indie band Microdisney, alongside Cathal Coughlan the band initially formed in Cork but was based in London from 1982 until their split in 1988. Sean O'Hagan was born in England to Irish parents, moving to Cork as a teenager. ![]()
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