“I don’t want to feel pressured to achieve commercial success. “Labels want pop hits, they want to make the dollar, but you can’t force that,” he says. He acknowledges his debt to “Too Close” – “it bought my house and will hopefully put my kids through college”, but insists that he is not chasing after a repeat. “They had to be tolerant to be politically correct and they tried, but they’d never worked with anyone who observed the rules of the Sabbath before, so it was difficult for them.”ĭespite his past struggles, Clare is not bitter and admits that making his first album without Island’s support would have been impossible for an “inherently lazy” musician.
“You can’t even turn on a light switch.” But the clash between Jewish holidays and Clare’s busy musician’s calendar hasn’t always been so easy to navigate: the final straw with Island came when he was unable to perform a Radio 1 Live Lounge session due to religious commitments. “It’s a prerequisite of Judaism that you’re offline and disengaged for those days, which is a special thing in the modern age,” he says.
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