Shears on Scissor Sisters: ‘I’m sure we’ll start in a couple years’
By Nick Levine
Jake Shears has spoken about the future of Scissor Sisters.
The much-loved pop band released their fourth album Magic Hour in May 2012 – then announced that October that they were going on hiatus.
Speaking to Attitude recently, Shears, the band’s frontman, revealed that he has been writing music in his new hometown of Los Angeles, where he recently moved from New York – but said it was too soon to say what this will be used for.
“All I can say is I’ve been writing music, who knows?” Shears said coyly. “Who’ve I been writing with? Just, you know, various friends. I feel like if I say anything it’s just gonna… There’s no real, like, plan.
“It’s been interesting getting into the L.A. world because I’ve had to meet new people. In New York there’s so many collaborators: I know so many people and I can just pull someone into the recording studio and get writing. In L.A. I’ve had to, like, meet new people and make friends. It takes a little while. But I’ve definitely met some awesome people now and I’m enjoying writing again.”
Asked what made Scissor Sisters decide to go on hiatus in 2012, he replied: “I think the thing was, when we hit the ten-year mark, we were like, ‘Oh my God, it’s our tenth anniversary!’. That to me was sort of a wake-up call. We were either in a tour cycle or a recording cycle for that entire time and we made four albums. And when [instant camp classic Let’s Have A] Kiki happened I was like, well, we’ve said that, I don’t quite know what else to say.”
He then added: “I’m gonna be very excited some day to take it back up again and I’m sure in the next couple of years, some crazy idea is gonna come to me and Scissor Sisters will start the next record.”
Continuing, Shears admitted that he misses his bandmates and being in Scissor Sisters. “You know, I miss it a lot, I miss performing,” he said. “But I feel like it’s a good thing. With Scissors, I felt like we just got to this amazing place where we felt satisfied with what we’d done – and once we hit that satisfaction point, I didn’t really know if it was a good idea to keep going with it. Right now, anyway. I felt like we sort of said what we wanted to say for now.”
Shears will join his close friend Kylie Minogue as an advisor on The Voice this Saturday (March 1). During his chat with Attitude, he revealed that Kylie and the Scissor Sisters recorded “a whole album’s worth” of songs together over the years – read the full story here.