In those days I don't' think they were even demos.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love listening to demos. They're so raw.
I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.
My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.
There is not, in my view, a single European demos.