This interview was translated for the Church web site ' Shadow Cabinet' from a Swedish magazine.

Marty Willson-Piper, guitarist in the Australian band The Church, the now discontinued band All About Eve and solo artist - yes, the man with "a lot of irons in the fire" is back. The question is, was he ever was gone ? A record was released recently with one of his new projects - Seeing Stars - which also includes Andy Cousin and Mark Price (bassist and drummer from All About Eve). Because of that fact that all three have helped Julianne Regan (singer in All About Eve) with her solo project it's easy to wonder if there will be a reunion in the near future.

- No, no, no, absolutely not, says a wildly waving Marty Willson-Piper when I met him on a cloudy day in April. I didn't realize that it's so hard to understand the fact that me, Mark and Andy are working on a project together while I'm writing tracks and work with Julianne. We're all working together on a few tracks on Julianne's record without any relation to All About Eve - Julianne doesn't want that. But we still like working together.

- It was when Julianne jumped off All About Eve in the middle of a project, the other of us sat there and had nothing to do for a couple of weeks. We thought that, OK, we sit down together and do a few tracks instead of being depressed over Juliannes departure, and that was how the Seeing Stars project started.

- The recording of the record was also a bit special, because not one of us felt any pressure in any way We only did the recording and stuff spontaneously, and I mainly just improvised the text during the recordings. It is a very spontaneous record, says Marty who points out that Seeing Stars isn't a project that's supposed to be the most important one from their side. Both me and the others have a lot of different projects going on, and it isn't really something we're going to put a 100% effort into. But that's the advantage of doing a lot of things at the same time. That you can put effort into what's feeling best that moment, says Marty while smiling cunningly.

- Furthermore I'm priviledged enough to have had the possibility to build up my own studio, where I can work freely with different things, without having different producers and record companies breathing down my neck. I feel free when I don't need to try to argue and make technicians see things from a different perspective than what their own experiences tells them. Thats why I don't want to have a big company at my back, it mostly feels burdening. I have the possibility to do my own things and then contact the company and say 'I have a new record here, and I think it's that good, you might want to release it', and they said Yes. I need no complicated Sony Music contract. It's much better for me to work in this way. Besides Seeing Stars Marty has recently worked with both his own solo projects and has previously written with Julianne Regan.

For the full interview please see the 'Shadow Cabinet' site.