More popular than Jesus Cleave's article mentioned that Lennon was "reading extensively about religion", and quoted a comment he made: Cleave's interview with Lennon was published in the "Evening Standard" in March 1966 and provoked no public reaction in the UK. Church attendance there was in decline and the Christian churches were making no secret of the need to transform their image into something more relevant to modern times. Music historian Jonathan Gould wrote, "The satire comedians had had a field day with the increasingly desperate attempts of the Church to make itself seem more relevant ('Don't call me vicar, call me "Dick" ...')."
More Than a Thousand in Setúbal, Portugal in 2001. They moved to London in 2005 to reach a wider audience. More Than A Thousand’s debut album “Volume II: The Hollow” is a follow up to the EP “Trailers Are Always More Exciting Than Movies”, billed as '13 songs about loss, separation and human decay'. It is based on the band's experiences in the previous two tumultuous years. "Volume II: The Hollow" was recorded and produced in 2006 at Tonteknik studios in Umea, Sweden, under the supervision of Pelle Henricsson and Eskil Lovström, the team that had produced Refused, Poison the Well, Cult of Luna