Phil Oakey: 3 Big Questions
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- The Human League introduced synths and electronic sounds to a broad pop audience, and enjoyed massive success and worldwide popularity with their multi-platinum album Dare and various hit singles.
As one of the founders of the band, Phil Oakey must be responsible for the sale of thousands of synthesisers around the world, so it's fitting that we met up with him at SynthFest 2019, where Gaz asked him the 3 Big Questions.
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what a fucking dude Phil is, still 100% into the music. So inspiring.
Saw The Human League in Auckland last night and I was standing up front with a musician who only knew a few songs, but even he remarked how well an oiled machine the group still are. At 68 years old, Phil’s voice is still incredible.
Being Boiled in the encore was goosebumps stuff and a real trip down memory lane.
Been years since I last saw them. His energy was boundless, covering all the stage. So ably assisted by the two original members, also sounding untouched by time.
He seemed to be struggling with the heat of the venue, especially in his heavy costuming. Or was he just living out the character in the songs.
Genius and was smiling the whole time, like a person grateful for being able to still share the music.
How likeable is Phil? A quality bloke and seems like a total music geek. Also looks like he would have been 5 years old when he wrote his hit singles!!
14.02.2003 aquarius
14.02.2003 aquarius
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Phil Oakey still looks fantastic. I won't ask what his secret is, but I'm glad he is still in good shape and chilling with Gaz.
His secret is to consume the blood of small children. That's chilling alright
64 in the video, this year 66 :O
@@antoniogarcia4249 He turned 67 on the October 2nd 2022.
@@massmurggor4108 The same age as Bruce Willis and Whoopi Goldberg. all 3 born in 1955.
@@pantera89 And Angus Young.
His spirit appears to be even younger than his incredible look .
Holy moley he's lookin' good for his age!
yea he is now 66.....
I sure does
Only good? Amazing yes
67 now. \m/
@@pantera89 \m/
Had the pleasure of seeing the Human League here in San Francisco a couple of years ago, having never seen them but loved them since Dare. Absolutely brilliant show. Love Phil. Great interview!
Great to see Phil, such a lovely bloke!
He looks amazing
Nice chap...modest, intelligent and excited about his medium. Him & Martyn both heroes, not that i idolise individuals, but heroic in terms of overcoming limitations of technology and the class system by altering the language of the British music scene through the sound of paradoxical futurism.
Nice interview!
Great to hear Phil is still excited to be exploring and doing his thing...... 👍 ☺
Yeah!!
I am a big fan. He did parties happier with his amazing musics and fantastic voice.
jealous of you gaz, looks like such a pleasure to chat with phil, love the guy!
It’s funny. “Dare” and the equipment used on that album influenced me and got me really into synths
Plus you have to credit Martin Rushent for those earlier albums, he did a lot of work on the production. A shame he's no longer with us.
Same here
Thanks Sonic State for a delivering so many positive moments within 2020. Merry Christmas to you and the staff.
Three great spanning interview questions from Gaz. Most influential event(s) of the past; current influences of the day, plans for influencing the future.
Looking forward to more Sonic State in 2021. Gratefully.
excellent chap , iconic tunes
Brilliant answers and a brilliant piece of Geekery! Thanks Gaz and thanks Phil 👌
Also, shout out to 'Tomorrow's World' Phil a staple of my childhood.
Legend.
Wow, a reminder of when we could just GO OUT AND STAND NEXT TO ONE ANOTHER! Thanks gaz!
Loving the 3BQs. More like this please!
Nice to see him doing so well. 🎶
Always will love the music.
I love his voice, I so wish we could all hear it on a new record. Go phil, you look so youthful , ,please keep going, I was of the dare generation, still the most perfect pop album ever. Plus a shout out to the genious that was Martin Rushent RIP-
Haha.. I bet there's a lot of us that can relate to "the other two guys didn't drive... couldn't buy a car so bought a synth"! My car budget certainly couldn't stretch to a Korg 700S so I snagged a second hand Korg MS10 which I still have to this day!
Great songwriter and genuine, top bloke.
Great artist!⭐
Crikey he looks amazing!
Well done Gaz, and thanks to Phil Oakey for championing hardware sequencers !
Top guy is Phil. legend of synth pop and alsop loved their more industrial early period.
The marvellous Phil Oakey
I met him a good number of times once I moved to Sheffield and Phil's a really great bloke, would love to speak to him again soon.
I've been lucky enough 2 have met the 2 Human League Sweet 💗 s ie Queen Joanne Catherall ♥️ my life time special hero 4 a lot of things, Queen Susan Sulley ♥️ & King Philip Oakey 2 after a few fantastic Human League gigs. Ace band IE The Human League. Little does Queen Joanne Catherall ♥️ my life time special hero know. But she is largely responsible 4 the best night ever of my life.
I met him when I'd just turned 14 after a small show in 1980. He was adorably sweet and the most gorgeous human being I'd ever seen. Had I only been a few years older. 🙈
What a Dude. Such an amazing bloke. So real and genuine
Great Christmas treat! Thank you!🎁
Gaz, you must’ve asked him if he’d come on the GWShow ? Imagine chatting to Phil for 90mins about early HL albums and his synths ;-)
Straight up legend
How young does Phil look, he must have a picture in his attic lol, he’s so gorgeous 🥰
It may be an illusion exacerbated by the difference in hair volume, but the directions of their eyes and stances relative to each other makes it look like Gaz' head is about two-and-a-half times the size of Phil's :D
He's such a bloody nice bloke
I agree lovely guy and very youthful for 66
Legend 🙌 !
We love Phil, what a bloody decent chap.
What a treat😊😊😊😊
wow what a lovely likeable geeky guy.
what an absolute diamond Phil is!!
How old is this guy? He looks like in his late 30s! Crazy.
Epic Linn Drums on ‘Fascination’ and ‘Dare’
I found some Linn drum samples last year I was very happy and use them here and there.
The 700s and that traveler filter. Still a beast.
Mr. Philip Oakey, a musical living legend.
would love it if he got the original league back together
Omg, yes. What a dream. 💗
Well if it isn’t Phil Oakey of the Human League. Would you mind giving me a hand with my Reliant Robin?
When he wasn’t busy rescuing waitresses from cocktail bars he would have had lots of practice rescuing Reliant Robin drivers
I wonder what he does with his synth collection. At this point he can mess around with it at home, put out some music online under a pen name and find an audience outside of the Human League. I'd be curious to listen to it.
The things that dreams are made of.
Phil Oakey doesn’t seem to age, he’s very handsome still! I love that leather jacket he’s wearing too! 👍👍 Such a cool guy! 😎
Phil looks well considering he is almost 70 years of age. no real wrinkles to speak of and his singing voice has stood well up against the test of time. seen the human league recently on tour in Bournemouth UK 2024. the place was packed out every one having the time of there lives at that concert. it was so good.
The guy doesn’t age ( Phil, not Gaz. Gaz is classically handsome). How lots of hair and no hair at all can look equally great.
@Le Gaz looks like bigfoot...maybe he is bigfoot.
Ummm...so I just really like his music. He is next level intelligent and although English is my native language, I only understood about 10% of what Phil just said.
Sheffield's finest there in the form of Phil. And not forgetting the loverly Joanne and Susanne as well; always modest and down-to-earth but the Human League have always done South Yorkshire proud.
I like Phil Oakey. I think he is a knowledgeable, nice chap who is modest.
You look sooo good…
How does he look this good!? He’s around the same age as Paul Weller but looks 30 years younger wow
I wish Behringer would clone or Korg rerelease a 700s. I had one as a teen in the 1970s. It was my most creative and productive time ever, which I attribute partly to the 700s.
If they could clone that filter, that would be amazing.
Omg, how nice Phil Oakey looks, he seems to be 45!!!! :O
Hes 67 now, he will be 68 in October.
When he talks I think he's going to start singing 'Louise'.
770! I love you, man👌✌️
Phil doesn't age. Clearly, his success involved a deal with the devil. ;)
@Donald Or a shot of JD a day.
@@WAZA___ No chance, anyone who drinks alcohol does not age well at all, much less JD.
I was at Synthfest 2019 and I did not see Phil Oakey. Gutted.
I LOVE his accent ❤
Ahhh Phil❤❤❤❤
Did he mean the Metropolis?
Empire state human, anyway.
Analogue Solutions has a Europa sequencer. Yeah... confused. Buy both! hehe
I like to imagine he refers to all eurorack modules as "Europa."
yes, the Metropolis is like the RYK M-185 sequencer that he named
That was before the COVID.......?
Wow that goatee makes Phil Oakey look pretty edgy and cool.......I definitely approve :)
Phil's great but I don't know why he didn't name check Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh .I thought they'd all kissed and made up but this seems to indicate otherwise.
I was lost after he said "hi folks!"
Does Phil mean "Intellijell Metropolis" perhaps? Nice chap anyway, and looking frighteningly good as everyone else has noted. The Electronic Music lifestyle must be better for you than the old Rock'n'Roll lifestyle.
Maybe the Europa from Analog Solution
@@alexanderloetz3213 The description of functionality sounds like the Intellijel, with the probability sliders and so on. I don't know much about the Analogue Solutions box, but it looks like a simpler device, more of a Roland XOX style sequencing approach.
@@andrewquicke1054 He probably has both of these & is getting his wires crossed. Seemed to know his onions otherwise.
@@andrewquicke1054 it does sound like he is talking about the Intellijel Metropolis. He also mentions RYK, which is the sequencer the Metropolis is based on, the RYK M185. This has sparked my interest and I'm working on an article about these sequencers!
"I'm quite happy with digital control of normal oscillators" Who isn't? 🤣🤣🤣
Any idea if Phil is working on a new album?
Really hope that one day THL will release one more album at least. Credo released in 2011 is very good, has a lot of hit songs and prooved the band still got it. Unfortunately the album ended up extremely underrated as it was poorly promoted due to a very low marketing budget...
@@jamesbestrr4532 I have credo I remember I was off sick from work and my mate bought it for me and dropped it off, I take it by bad promotion you mean hardly any promotion? Any promotion is good but radio play and prime time tv is where it’s at and sadly there was no prime time tv and only radio 2 played the songs, I love breaking the chains that’s my favourite on the album but nothing since credo, I’ve heard that they have said they are always thinking about another album but nothing has surfaced, I’d love a new album, that studio they have is something they should be making better use of
Where's Martin Fry out of ABC when you need him?
❤❤❤❤looks good
He said ''Mogue''. 👍
geez....if you had to guess...."do you recognize that voice?" you'd know straight away....!!!
That’s a Christmas present. The legend (Phil not Gaz.........)
Russell Brand has let himself go. Phil on the other hand has moved on by final shaving off his trademark comb over.
One side of his chin hair is much longer than the other.
14.02.2003.
Wow.. almost didn't recognise Stephen Hendry there with the big bushy beard.
Lfo😊
You need a new camera-man.