Faithless: how we made Insomnia
‘MTV forced us to change the first line. It was originally: I only smoke weed when I need to’
Sister Bliss, keyboards, songwriter
We wrote Insomnia in a garden shed, since that was where our producer Rollo Armstrong had his studio. Being in there all day and then DJ-ing all night was like having permanent jetlag. So I came up with the title Insomnia because I couldn’t get to sleep. Rollo didn’t really play an instrument. He has a condition called where you see music as colours, so he’d just
