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Scritti Politti are an art band*
gulp and moan I till your face turns
blue on forr The fact is theyrve produced one of the best singles of the
year with rr,skank bloc bolongna tt, tu*
rned in two Peel sessions thatt ve
eclipsed just about anything done by
Tom - drumsf vocals
Ihey live together in a housing cooperative in Camd€or their house is
a barely organised shambles, not unlike their stage showirgsr They donr t
know where anything is, but they have
fun finding it.
I asked Greenr the gangling
centrepiece of the .band, , how the t&n': s
written by this bloke ealled ffransc:rl(?)
while he was in orisonr iie
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which were snuggled out of prison and
later printed.rr
He was- inprisoned by the fascists?
G: trYes, he was a political prisonef,r
l{e uere influenced by his writingr i*hen
lre started a6 a group, but not anymor€ o
$ti}L r it dos t nr t rnatter , the
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Are you comnunists?
Ion frErr I think we all voted Labour.
Didnr t we?tt ( it appears they diC )
soc ialists
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name came about.
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Tlre apparent uncgrtainty of each others
poli tic al- af f iliatioirs serve ( reassuringly). to dispel any suspiciorrs I had
about the band being jus'i another bunch
of art scLrool $iartyrs coming to save
the city by use of, the nnihed-up pulpi t" I
Youfre not tryins to Eet any great pol- ,
itical rfiessase acrCIss vsitlr your sonEs? r
l* ; tNo , not really. You can say t-rhat
you feel about certain thj"ngs but you r
any sta$sering hopeful the b.brcr has
served up in nontbs r and performed
some of the best gigs seen since
Davici $6rrie 'risseql aff.
They are I Green
- vocr*"&s r g:rri tar O
It: I - bass, vocals
rWell r I was very intereated in this
boolr called rtscritti Folitch6
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he| s voted Communist in the past.fl
i.ii eI : ItYeair r I have vo teci comffiuni st . I
vated twice last time ? once here and
once in Leeds, trying to iceep lhhtcher
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cantt tput a message acrossf iust like r
tirat. i f you try to do that you just .
ena up slonganising, itt s a bit point- '
less * like lonr iiobineca.f r { Ana who
li ster:s tc r:im? )
vlhy are you in a band?
G: rf I t just seemed a natural thing t,o do.
vr'€ prefer r.rorking within the context
a rock gtroup works j"n rather than that
wnich an orciinary artist works ih. rre
like the people we deal witn in this
,side of' things, whereas we donr t like
the ;f'yl::* *f people t*6 t d have to cieal
with in the r artrsorlu | * Anci musi"c is a
good way of expressi*g yourself.tl
Isnf t it linited?
u: rr,tell E €verythinsts limited rea}ly"
I think you can ds quite a lot with
wcrds anci rnusic. rl
'i': tf il band has far less lirni tations
than most artiets" Yf know, there art n't
that many rul€$ r and if there are we
i'rant to avoid them.rf
torn met Green at Leeds *rt rlollege,
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after spending a year sultivating hie
mousey dreadlocks in his hometown
art school at Srighton. N"ie ls past
seems to be cloaked in nystery n apart
from the fact that he was an old friend
of Greens who was hanging around Leeds.
tthy did you turn to music as a form
of expression when your d been tau6ht
how to do that visually at college?
G: tr weli nobody listens to that. I f
you do a painting or whatever r and you
are really excited about it and yourve
put a lot into it n you turn around and
wait for some kind of reaction. iSut
it just .isnt t there r it t s hopeless.tl
Didnr t you do ar\y performance art
there?
Gl ttNo. In fact I didnt t do n:uch tirere
at all really. tt
Is being in a band nuch of a vocation to you. If you encountered
the same apathy on s tage as you
did at school, would you still
sc l rii er on?
G: lt"ijr.r.rlol i surrrcofire wef ci lc*!l
for another ',,u'3.'r cf expre,ssing
our selv€s r be ing in a b*n* i.sn t t
the be alL and end, a11. rt
ldhat sort of refi ct ion have yslr
been Setting?
T I Very gooci ren 11y, the paper$
seem to lilte us and resctions at
giSs are Sood.. Ytknotlr ]Jwople
that coffie to 6iiigs no'rr actrinS-l;r
know most of the son{irsr anr] thatrs
It f s xlore 'bhan 'ire do l tt
incredible.
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n:ake up sonf,,s snstage r;uite
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a bit.
$omet imes half the set is
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I usually hr;te banii s
but r'lith:,',au it seerns qu it e nstural.
iio lFs1r finh, it easli?
l\: : trlt i.s f airl;ir easy r 4s to hotr ;;';ood
it is deFends on how i,{* fe*l 0B ihe
ni;,;ht. ltrs difffgult to tell" if a
certain bit of ir,rpi,ovisation ie
1d-Jci'kinr; or r:ot , *ecause jrou I re too
i-nv*}v*ci in d*ing it, but it usua'1i.1'
It ffiakes thinss a bit'
seei:is alr:;;iht.
ffiior# i.nter'{*stin{l for us enc}" t}:e nc*ople
trlrt- cori!* to see us.ll
ji.nother rintere*ting: | '.:'venL that
#isl1r cr Ii:&:.,'' not occur dur:"ng their set
igi {} Bectisn i-lhere soxr:eCIne conieB
onsta;qe and re*ds scrnethi.nq cut abcve
s jerl"i,y- Cui:tbed-uF itackdrop slJritr1j eS"
bli cli+ ,$crits.
fire{in: rliiis }iave sonietirin$ d.ifferent
r1-'{}J"''.' t ine.
A bit of the lccnl
ne $p,*per uf i;i'ie ioi*n r,,igr.f* 'l)1e;,rin,ii
in or $oi;':e thing, usufi lly the most
bernal bit of the paper we can f ind t
jus* to sort of point out whet itfs
l-jhe l-ivinl; in thnt nsirticuleir toun.
It t ti not re$lly relevsnt to anythoin,+
cther than the t irne and place we sre
',d€ just grah anyone urhs
lr-1 ayir:S in"
hap$sns to be around for that bit.rt
It, s*effis t o be an ext ension of the
radio tapes on tti',pgntern klorldtl .
T:oln I rtI su ripCIse it, is, yeah I it I s the
s&il:e sart of idee. Cnc, nii'ht wa$
51ood1 ire hed l4att (ttre ffiangiler and
e*J-r:ost l+t,h m$nber) re&din6 out sl-1
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prjp*fsr
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I Learnt was a by-prod,u ct of iny
a'rg:uing; with the teachers.
In
order to put an arsument acrcss
you tencled to read up on that
subject you were ar$uing about.
in that '.'day you Se t a di f f erins
oninions. ?hat hras alL I learrecJ r
I read quite a lot, I suppose
partly Cue to that experierlce.
3ut overall it wa6 h/orthl€ss I once
they realised you weren I t going to
sit arounC and paint all the t ime
t h ey Save up on you.
f I ffArt college is great f or just
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lazirp; around in. You can Set
away with clcing fuck all for a
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Fro r^ t\'g
},leil : rtlt's'increclibls what soilne people
wr it e . , Chr ie t , trangular sound rt . I
rnean, where does the c CInver s.r t ion So
from ttrere? |
Perlraps we ehould a sk Ian Fenms r r
who , as if he | *; lpeen wa it ing f or h is
cue lig;ht I has just wa ndered in. Ian I s
been playing; the odd t chunk t ( oops I ) of
sax with the $crits and Frag Vec recentlyl
a task which he perforrns ruith toasue
f irmLy in cheek {r*'hich is pr stty dirf ic}r1t )
and notepad in pocket. Iie spills his bee::,
ffioans about lris f ellor,s rockscr ibes and
t ells ne how good his own bernd are , ( the;1r t re
ehit) before bouncing out into ttre nis;ht,
no doubt concoct ing anoiher we ird, rd'rond erful
and totally und c ipl"ierable acre of the
I''iew l"{usical Sxcess on the wa,y home. U}:
well, s0 r*uch for the pre.sse
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f ew yeaf s *lt
You start ed t i:e band a s soCIn a s
you left?
O: tlltore or lesE. iie bcoked
studio t ime b"ef,ore we brere even
a {froupo I'nre had thrre weeks to
$et s0$et]::tn*t rusd'q f or it.
i',5-e 1 was st ill
livin$ in Leeds
and he had to boruow soneones
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bass and c ome Coisn f or the
ses,gion.ll
You I d never playp$ anythin,E?
i'Il tr$r, not i ju-st learnt the b&ss
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part for the sih4l,e, it only taok
& f e'*r doys f it t's' qlt it e €# s$. tt
Can you pla.;r properly no,rr?
i':tllieahr I consider so. ,,je11
enou gl:, an:.,r1,,lay. tt
!t'hich is all that ma.tters.
If mors Feoiple !.rsrs as i;r;; ve/stu::iC
e$ il:iE I ',ye I d have fi vsr:r. raal
niusical i'*voluticn cn oir.r hcnis.
$cri*;ti F'ol,itti believed in the*sel"v.csr sild cast all traCi;Lcns
,:*sicl u :n crder tc i::et tl:inFis
talkins about th'b' prr,;s bring us hanrti ly
i:tcvinf,:.'j"'here
tfi? s no hcit:b.lrCino""
to your imag€. Did you ever actually thinlr
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cor?iiranies
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about how you d like to be seen by othereS
no
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went
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want ecl t o. ?iie "iloder is in i he
performence ar t, with the instant reaction
iran*s of tilcse bol,d enoug4h to
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you get frorn t he aud,ience* Theref s no
g;rab i.t. ':'rue, oth.er bands heve f
calcuLated att ernpt s at Fr o j ec t ing any
ione i h is, it t "s just that the
vFart icul-ar ima Se though. "
,*cr:-ts Cid it r:ore ilranat ica11.r
tou tend to atr ply arty t erms t o r,',rhat you t re
( i' succsesfu3l;,,r ) than n:ost.
doing rather t han tradit ional rock I n I ro11
l+as chat &n ir,lpcrtant f actor,
etandards
Inaltinr,'it
alone?
T: ttlrlelI we wa nt to Set away from those
trYeahr verli riiuclr so. Ferticufi:
standards and traditionse and I suppose as
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1ar1;,'at the tjne. ;ie haci tlris
we went to Art c oLlege we t end niaybe t o take
icl ea tllat tirere chou1C. be hundreads
that attitude touards thirigs. fl
of
banc.is nakinf ,J , j.. y. recordsl
But I take it you didntt like art col1ege.
and if we c ould do it , anyone c ould. tt
G I lt0h god rlo r Art college in a cornplete
But youtre not as entl:usiestic
waste of tirne. The tutors are Fj,enersIl"y a
aborrt
the idea nor*'?
j;irst
bunch of wanke rsr l reslised
in rnji f:-rst G:?t','ifell,
lr€sr ftts just that in
t erm at Leeds.
practise
it can prove to be a
$ut the er,,per i ence did you soffie gccd t}:ou[i]i.
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tirerets a lot
more to it than just going in
taping a song. tt
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ha d t li is idea of ov€rthrowing the big labels y I knoru
It was a bit naive I suptross r
l/e wanted r and st i1l do want,
to de-nystify the-business of
making recordsI dls-*rnile all
the mytlrs bit-by-bit. That t s
irnport ant t o us. tl
T : rf lt also means tre have. Sot
t of al c ontrol over rshat stuf f
is released. fhatf s v€r1r important to us asweIl, werd
hate to be told what to do by
some record company people.!r
ilow did the single sell?
l,lat t 3 tf ivell , we r €-pressed it
so the total ttras E , OOO n and
they t ve all sold out except
f or a *c oupIe of hu nclr ed. at
Rough Trade. rt
uihat did you tdo r'rith thq
m oney you got from it ?
iulat t : ilBou ght € qu ipm ent , Sot a
van and crashed it I i* e put
what was left into Setting
studio tirn€.ft
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they t ve cl.one sols e iL;i *tq ibu t ion. T$ and
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have :', lsCI '=,u,t up some ir ore :i:caey fcn
us to record .:egff, in, ,so there s gcing
to be a three tr'r cr, sinflle corni*g oit
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att: trl'iot really, they ffCIt interesi ed
ii n us for a while, but all yourve fl at
t o do is prove to thenr youtre not
a aking any aone.',r from tire l:and and
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t hey i''o abray, rl
il hat plane are there for more relea se s?+
? 3 rr,ofef ve got the 12tr e.F. cominf o ut
s oonr It I s Sot six tracks fro;: the Fe,e1
s essions on it , lropefull'y it | 11 he cu'+v
f or leos than 2 quid.tt
I n these Ca;'s of 6 qu id alburis r tha tfr t
f" of to be worthwhj. le.
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t he Beeb are being sods about relea l/tar
t, he tap€sr due to red tape i,*ith the
usicians uniorr r ao the releese dat
h as been pui back to about i'lovernber
'if hy rel-ease the Feel secsions at al 1"
T ' ft I Cos we went into ttre studio an d
r ecorded a few thlnss for possible
r eleasel but kJe werlnf t happy ','rith th el
f inal tap€s r so we ,scrappe d that an d 4
d eei'ded to get these. out as they ar a
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o ood and, already rec orded.
7 OO quid in the studios Bo we had t o( tI/
d o something, tt
Fl att : trfhe € r p e is ha lf
Rough tracle
"a nd half St.Fancrn.$. (S.P.s label)
t his t ime, I cos they I ve helped us
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rnstee d of relying on the b is money
of n mn jor l_abel (*.ncl the *uitrioni*g
effect thnt soes rith it; the ba*d
is helped by xoug;h rrafi.€ and an
i:lerestecl cr-rcle of friends, r+ho
oft'er critisisrns rn{,noy1 arrd encouragement - ';'he r'uhole orru**ticn l:an,.r,s
on co*operaticnr r;r.ther than cagh.
I t give s the ;c p i ts the f re ed,
they neeci, r: nrl i t helps keen things
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Gre()n: ili',is1 1{ou}r.i3i r f, }*,r.ot to be thought
of es t profbs riion. 1 i rusicil n$ r fts ,sttch.
.,'e r/oul-cltr t t',,.jarjt tc he conEt,.,.ntly
t,.'Lirilr.g r:"11 the tiirre eniJ 1.,i,r,rrrlirrb
.r-?:o:rt sr. len fi"grrres ::ncl gll- that.
just tirj:e g,;ii;s n s t}rey co*re fil-r:ns.,, t*e
the i:,ri:d h*s stil.l cnl.y rlone {rrirty
od,l g:rgs tri cl.rtel l.-irrt thr inrnrct thnt;
theyive hecl h,rs i:een corjsid*"*hle.
itve niet v{}ry feirt :reop}e rrho dclnrt
-li]':e the''i i-r.ilil, c{rll.Eitl,:ring
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unccnventiCIfl* 1 ". ljj,r*,.?ch it is a fact
tl:n t lfove{; li'el: :'" ctri;l} roel" I n I fcl_1,
at-tdience ii; f.rr less lr";l_trolr r:iriclecl
th' n is fienef.1r. 11)' tlrcirght, It r-.1.1
1or:Jls pron j nin;. f cr the ir_: t-,irc r
l-Jould you like ascess to a i'iass audi*
enc e , or do you l ike your cult e ta tus?
Niel: rtidell I don't think tha t just
because you have a rile ss arr:,d ieirc e yorl
autornatically get l.istened to. In
fac t I think it I s more lil(ely tha t if
you have e smaller number of people
hearing you then they r*ill be more
interested anrl rec eF t ive tc r'.rhe t
you I re Co itrS. A ny'r';ay , numbers Con ' t
really interest trsr I just d.on't
th j nk l+e rd appeaL to a radio audien
c e in the d* ytirne , I can I t see them
be ing tha t intere sted . tr
You I re cbviously resgae influenced,
*re yc'u big fans ?
Niet I " r es, tr*r€ " 11 are , which obvios*
Iy gives , s a comrnon basis far nur
own stuf f . ,,ue t ve al"l got R -,ot of
reggae , particulEr rl y dub thi:tgs.
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Joe tiibbs, i>crs tch , Srssi C1arhe , t
those scrt of peoTrle."
Scritti r:'olittis t scnS,s tencit tr: convclr r$,-iods
rn-ther than riessaFi€,i!r ','heirs i* ni,qht n:Lrsic,
+ihen ti:e eub*concic)Lrs seqqni.g tc be rrn,*e.:rrtJ-:ed_
and. the rninq: nrire ;:bl e to re, shuf f l e rnd
beco!'1e recentive.
Thn.tts Clne roqsir,tl',i1:;r they
are ,3" herd hend to riet i.nt*, trn d"iticn:": aflrl.
sllsll'icicnn r-,:Est be f ': rgr:tten u}: e& yi,lt re
ccnfrr:*L*#. by ihi,s ba.nd.
,1.-s ;ret t}:ere ,=re r!rr f,1:,ns for :.n al.h'tjn.
There is strll roor: fof ir,'':i:cveriicr:t, l;'he
Scrits rr€ 1o*se etli:uf:ih fr-r th*re to be
trr::orfl for aore i,ieng. "'h-ers in alsa r,.'0r3
for ysu. I I cl advise en)'c;tie to {"c, $nct see
them nc'r,J. ,bcritti jrolrtti n-re not eetting
out on n ny lc$entle rS r*ad to starri*nr I they
n.fB just ,:-r bu.nch of j.nr1 fr,'ir.irrEls e3perimentio.ril
a.ncl J 6oi the irnpressicn the ,:psj*ct cr:u1.6 be
ca:tctll-ed *t .3.ny l$orrient, if they thous'ht t}:eir
control or artintic grntjfj-cation 1,.rBs d,itrin*.
ishitrg- (an cbr,'ious t:y-procluct of -n], 1:.-,.ncl t
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t.t-}le na.rt in thisi d=,r nC€n.bl-e e:.r":eriment?
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*Go e nci s€€ r
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I'Iho rsrites the lyrics?
T: rrGreen c3.oes the l:rrics ;,. ncl. l're e 1l- do
the ffiusic. tt
I fling in the old sound CIr sent inent
questicn o
G: rt1 I m involved in both, T sui).iiose the
lvords ii:terest me t co,g T t m very interes
ted in la.ngu=lS€s. "
IIfrat aspect of langua{Ies^
G: r?In the '*ray they ' re interpre te C. I t
stems from art college . You 8e t ,&
picture of 3 yellow' blobs in a corner
and it t s "supposecl to i:tean ,sol?:e thing.
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just loolced into horr pespl* Sot a
'meanins from that sart of thiilS. I
looked. in'to the various t,lefs in nhich
. at thought or f eeling is cori*unica teC,
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where do you ever see a decent nrticle ?
They have become the hated band of the
new wave G which is pretty unfair.
Sure, they nade nristak€s r but rras
their talk of being ''oh-so-r,?.d iea1 |
aay worse than the dann and their ou'tburet
of naivety on voting Tory'/ Their 'rrradical ,
stance was no worse than say, thet ,of the
CIa sh. Gene Oc tober posed in gay ma gg
for soffie money .r before being in a band H
but so rvhat ? David .l onansen, Oebbie Harry,
Gaye lt dvert did it too. So rvould J ohnny
.r,ydon if he rrere beautiful enoush. Gene
did go over the top in fa c ing his eudi enc e
uritfr violent outbursts , but tha t trn s no
wor6e than the early PistoJ-s or J&.mned.
And rememb€r r CtreLsea where right there
in those clays too.
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it t s uncaltnf,r Bits that scund iike Joneselr s riuitar and baclt'ing ,vc:cals, bits
of Topper style c].rumning, there 's even a I o nffier lFersicn nf an *ld ref:Se.e
track ( their I Folice and. thievesi ) ' Thi s pq.r t icular snng is ths oldJirnmy Cliff ehestnut *'l*lany rivers to cross fl sul:g b;." i,ene :'ri.th excell.l"ent
vocalising. t',fy own faves r:f€ the Clanhelilt *s; r1e I'enf r t?lecirlef and fFaols
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The Piralohas are undoubtedly Brightonrs hotteet band a.i the monent. Born on the
crest of the Jubilee lear Ner,Warel their humorous" cyni.call self=parodying blend
of punk, reggaer. pop aad honesf=to=good.ness entertarining silliness, has brought, then,
via a single (liffXl/Coloureel Music)
three tracks on the very pgll received
"ttd
lfau-Ltage t?8 Ip to the verge of a. contract
rith a najor record cotr|any. This
interview night be one of the last they do ag; a relatively unkno&n,phenonenorn. B1r
rrthe;rtrl me&n; The Pirhanagr minug the rhyrthm section of Reg Hornsbury, (taee) and Dick
Slerie (aruns).I spoke to John Hehner (guitar, vocals), Bob Grover (guiter, vocaile:)
and Zoot Allures (sax, silly nane). Inevitably, talk cf the recorcl deal fea.tured
proninent1y1noulconversation'.'so1etlgkickoffthere
+ Is there &, deal ln the off in$
Until you sign $oil€thingr there I s
nothing; is there ?
+ Eut Sou have turned some d,own?
ZO0T: 0h, yea,b. We told CtsS to fuck
off yesterday.
+ Becauge it sa;g.n I t a"L good enough
BOBI Well, there is and there isnft.
dearl ?
JOHNs l[e d.idnlt
like the bosses I
shirts,i The people art Virgin, wear
much nicer clothes.
8OB,r The first offer we had ras from
e publishing companyr to make an
a[bum, 'Ihey rooed us on six cans of
heer end tro packets of crisps, That
was their id.ea of a free m€al .
+ So you I re just wa,it ing f or the
right d.eal to come along?
ffiB,: It von,f t come a-L ong ; we I 11 harre
to fight for it.
ZOOI s We Yant a deal that will al]ow
us to ma,ke &: single and. maybe have it
flop for Bome reas:on and still be
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able to make ¬her one r" without being
kicked. off the Iabel.
B0B r $ome t ime s 7, if they think a band. I s
good. , they t 11 s ign t em up ; give I em a,
nainute advsnce r. d.o nothing about the ir
first couple of stngles so theytl+ b,ombr
and in e f f ec t the'y I ve ru j-ned the band I s
'career for a couple of yee,rs, jus.t to stop
anyorri€ exploit ing them to the de triment of
other bands on the laber. The bis companies
still operate like that. Theyrve got loo
many bands, on the label r and. they can lt
afford to pr,omote them ailtc
+ If and wben you do signa, d.eal ,, and
assuming that fate d.oesn i t befall you,r.ill
image play a big part in your livee?
JOliN: 0f course it will. Welll get a; p.R.
matr and all the rest of it.
+ Lro you th ink tLrat s id,e of i t is mad e too
much of?
JOHN r
tYell, there I s two sides to it.
f iret thing is that r,e I re no t eas ily
classified, and thatf s B.: good thing.
theyI11 tend to concentrate on the
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lvnrlTidun!: eharacter of the beild.. The
naiin thing ia: getting an engle.
BOBI Thatrg,the rord that alra,ys cropg
uP* a'lrgl€.
JOES.T But itrs,good to haye a1r angle to
be anr'initividtual thing, nnd aot ao
movement thing.
+ But ienrt it a contrived
indlriduality?
JOHI{I llhatt*. the.other eide of it. Tha.trs
the dravback* the fect that yourve got to
live up to an lnege. We rant an irnage
theSre us; one tbat ve dontt have to live
up to.
+ Don-rt trrou think tbait.a' &,b,it naiiue?
Surely you roro.rt have an awful lot of sa,y
in the na,tter.
JOENI Yell, r€rve talked. to a fer people
a&out this' and they seelo to think reire
a;ibaad rhorre quite eaey to p.R.
B0Br I think theyrll try and erptoit the
faot that ve make fun: of ourgelvea, rhich
ie the sEqe ag, not having an inage,
really.
J0ENI So, therers ao such thing as, no
inage.
3OB,: Our inage is reaility.
J0El{: Everybody thinke their image is
re&I,{tyr, but itts not. f tbink theyrll
exploit our dead"par,humour.
+ Xes, tha,+rs arother thing. f,unouf plays
a..big part in, your nuaic, doeen0t tt?
JOE}II Yee, but itts aot like fhe Albertosn
though* all piss-takea end the like. Itrs.
part of our rorld*vigrr ma.aaa€ln,. Our reld.=
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gaiat.
&O8,r Nah, I d.oart knor rhat youtre tal.king
a&out. Hu&our to ue iE the ire,ee as beer.
It d.eaderna tbe blor a* bit. Our huuour I s
born of sg,ffeaing' aot happlness.
J0SNr Itts dlifficult at the noment because
vhen you fire.t etart getting notioedl they
put you in a* bracket= nod, punk, humorousr
fhatever. . .
+ Do you think youfve got a b.umorous
inage, tben?
JOH[: No, I d.onrt want us to be knorn just
ara eonediang. Therers a lot nore to us than
that. 8ut in the final analysis it doesnrt
natte:r that nuch becauae r,e rve built it up
not througb the pxess but through playlng
'to people, and they knor,,r,hat rerre ebooi.
, + You seem to have nenaged to retain your
accassabil,ity and d.orn*to-earth feel
rithout f&lliIag into the "Irn-&rworking*
clase-Iad*f rn-aalright,r mould.
JOEIIT The nsin thing. to avoid, is
trying to
be Joe Pub,Iicl llke Jinny Fureey. Wben re
net hin he rd. jua"t come bsck fron e. holid.ay
ia Barbad.os. Even hin! The lead einger of
Tbe Ruts d.rives around in a eports car
vith personalieed nunbes=p1at6s. Their
inage iE a,1.1 so transparent. They try eo
hard, but it d.oesn,tt ring true.
BOBr t{e put the stress not eo niuch on
rhal re are, mole rhat we arenrt.Werro
not superg"fiars or ronderful people.
r:ith rings or somethilg.
+ 3ut arenrt trrou-worried ebout that
sort of thing happening if lrou beoone
reII=knorn?
B0B: Theyrd have a. hard. jgb fighting
our lyrics.
+ A fery of the. grouprs songa these
deys seem to contain en elenen,t of
social commentary. . .Thiugs like Happy,
Fanil;ies' Ivlotor Car, Love GMe,..
JOHN: No. A few.;of MX songs.
Do you see this eid.e oi it obniug
into your nu.sj.c nore?
JOlINr Not panticularly. f dorrrt knor,
rbat the next songrs goiug to be about
until I rrite it.
+ 0kay. Wha.t about the Eor€Er rhioh
ssen to be rritten from peraonaot
experience= thinge. like Go,tting Beaten
Up'and the three Va.ultage tra,cks?
BOB': Yeahn *ell I rrtte songs that are
about ego problems nore thaa. a4rthi,ug.
John and I do rrite a,loi of stnilar-
etuff, though.
+ So y.ou don,r t particularly see any
thene d.evelopiug in your sotrigs. DO y,ou
T€e., Uiourselves prinaftly as enterta.i&ers
then?
B0&: r{e prohabfy afi ede ourselves
d.ifferently. The only interteiners lrve.
ever liked are tbe ones rho oaa ebeer
ne up, regardlese of rhether thetrrrre
good nusicians, or rhether theyr3e
musioi.ans a_t all.
+ Br.rt rhen yourre p}rying 1ive,
entertaiTlng peopter. do you thiuk thegn
lie,tala e.i[l that closely to the 1yricsi
anywa;r?
JOHNc I hope so. Theyrre ouppoeed to. We
take a:..great deal of troub:le at the sound
ohecks to ensure the*. the ly,rics rill
be a.ud,ible.
+ &rt I still thlnk urost pe.ople go to
ga&s prinarily to have a. good-tinfn and
arenirt too concerned. about listenj.ng to
the rord.s.
BOE: Well, re s€e. people there rith grins
on their facesr, which ia rh8.t re judge it
by, so sone people nugt listen.
JOENr Ird hate to think'that varre
s,tanding up there al.agging off aII theae,
ggonle,we hate, vhich is basically rhat
allr_aboutr you knorl and. everybody
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Aga,inet Racien tour gigs you
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and this is relevant to aiIl the Sroups invsly66, not just you= hor much
ras that to d.o with publicity=ss6ft1n€
and. hor rnuch to d.o with genuine
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Z00Tl lfle d"itl i.t for the moneeeee,!
J08Nr The point ian before the tour, ratd
alread.y do&s ahout trenty IiAR gigs in
Brightonrn vhich aobocly outside the area
rould hax,e even heard about.
BOBr I think that, ae a band' onr first
thought wae that it ras,a gig. ye rould.r.rt
hare done it if it had conflicted rith
our beliefel, but I nust ailnit I never
thought about it conscieur\r. B*cism ilas
&iu€r,,rord, to ne= Itve rnever had anything
&3q,1;!r.,; aayhOd.y. lYe rre uOt into RAfi juet
because itrs. a fashion.
ZOOtr RARrg,Ulfifa.shionable in a.. ragr not
and rcrre gtill doiag it. A11 the little
baarils use lt just to get their nanes heard..
+ That rs rhy I a,akecl the question.
B0B: Well, ag: I said., re did it for the
Siger but we rouldnft have if it wBS iD:
eupport of sonething against our principles.
+ Alright, a stendard. intervier qUestion
nor, for the eake of our nillions of
read.erg. Hol, ditl you start, and. rhat did.
you have in nind at the tine?
JOSN: We started. rell= re enjoyed. it,
rhich ras the irnportant thing.
+ Like so many other people forning bands
ini tbe sunmer of t77r 3rou rere excited by
the punk thing, and d.ecided to ha.ve a go
y.ourselvee?
ZO0ft Yeah, re junped on tbe punk Rock
be,nd.ragon.
+ Iitren I firgt aar you' you didnrt seem
like juet another punk band.
J0[Nl Uor. re rerenrt. IYeused to try
aaything, just to see rhat vorked and rhat
d,iduit. We tbought, mistakenly, that it
ras about variety, but it e.eens nor that
it rasntt= it ras about unifornity.
+ Talkiag about unifornityr Jou used to
rear police uniforms on stage. Was that
jrue.i a ginruick, to get you noticed?
J0trN: The origiual. thirg about punk ras
that it r&B supposed, to ahock, so Te
thought i{ all these p.qople rere coning to
our gigs expectlng to be shockedr. Ietrs
ehock ren hy reariag police uniforms- and
it realLy did shook then.
+ Ies1, you rsre turning the shock right
bgok on. them. Punks a.renrt ehocked. by
other puulat clotheg or behayiourr. but
seei.ng a rpunkr band on stege rearirlg
polioe uniforns' of all things, must haye
beeu genuinely ahocking= nuch nore sp
tban juo.t seeing the Lates-t outrageous,
alothee their heroee bad d.reemed up.
JOHNr Iee, lt hed. a,reaL visual iniact.
+ Alright= fron on€ rec€nt trend. to an
sven more recent one. What do you think
about the qurrent ltod revival?
J0f,Itr I donrt like the ray itts going.
I mea:e, theyrve got their 'rsniffing
Glue'r, and eventually theyrll tiave
their lflark Penry. Sorneone said. theyrre
like the punksr younger brothers aofne
their own thing. Ifn annoyed, because f
wag really into it. There raa a lot of
energy generated by lhe Jan, but the
ray itts going at the noment itre just
eo cynical. It got exploited. too
quickly= it ras in the national papers
before there yas a soene there.
BOB; I reckon itrs. s,tupid! llod. res
about being mod.ern and being innovatore
and rearing clothes tha,f nobody ever
vore before, and. for someone to cone
along fifteen years later and call
thenselve&,tr{iod.s ie ridiculous. punks
are the llod.s nor.
JOHN: No, theyrre not. They etill rear
their leather jackets- antt their Sid
Vicious T=shirts.
B0B: Yeah, but theyrre stilJ nore than
ten years nerer than Dodj*. yourd never
get the original Mod reariag the sane
gear ten years later, They usett to
change their clothes every tro or three
*eelcel d.id.rarrt they?
JOHN: The whole TOts thing aeens to
hanre heenr about plundering pa&t eres.
Itrs like they look in thelr picture
books and decice rhatl.to rear thiE yeer.
+ I think it's becqube people juet
donrt rant to, live ln 'ttre ZOf s' itrs
beeu such a bad decadei
JOHN.: I donrt. I thi.nk itrs juat
because people havenrt got enough ideas.
3OB: The rhole Mod thing's a
contradiction, as far as I can see. Itra
exactly nonsmod€rn.
J0HN: I dontt think theyrre the future
of rock Inr ro11, .but I donrt think any
of the punk bancla are, eitber.
BOBI The ray I eee itn either the punk
ba.nd.s are going to progreso, 'or theyrre
going to fLzzle out and all the old
hairy hairy bands rhcirve ailvays run it,
are going to junp back in egain.
+ But eurely punk nusic has progressed
enornoue\r rith the likes of The Oeng
0f tr'our and any number of lNar Susiki
band,s?
JOEN: Yes, itrs like the bourgeoie kidg
getting back in again. The best of itre
a lot better than nost of the stuff
knocking about at the monent. frve seen
a fer of thoee band.s, and I found The
Mekons really gort of,.. inepiriug in a
ray. Rough, but inspiring. But I thtnk
the arty bands like Scrittl potitti en<l
Throbbing Gristle are ehit. l{e,ffsville,
Arizona,, m&.n.
+ I heve to disagree. I sar Scrittl
Politti a few months ago, and, they
Tere one of the mo s t, exc i t ing }ive
groups lfrre seen for a long time.
Z00T I I find I know far less about whatfs
going on in the music scene now than I
did when t wasn I t so busy in i t myself ,
+ Donf t you get much of a chance to
see many, groups, then?
Z00T l We can only ge t to see tsrighton
bands normally, because when we rre in
Lond.on or wherev€re re f re usually
playing a gig ourselves. I find all I
can d.o is listen to John Peel. If I
had any noney I I d go and. inve s t igate
them irn the record. shops. That I s what
I used to d.o.
+ Are you still not making much noney
out of all these gigs you do?
J0Hbl: Naa&h ! We rve got debts. Af ter
paying f or pe trol and road.ie s and.
eerlipnent and the upkeep of the van and
then paying Tony ( nyf ord. , the ir manager ) r,
there I s not nuch lef t betreen f ive of lls.
The money comes in from the gigs and goes
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straight out again . $Ie t ve got to be
careful wha,t we d.o with it.
+ Are you dreading the rhole music biz
s id,e of it if you s ign a big d.eat ?
JOHNr Werre looking forward to being
signed up and being on &r wage.
+ But all the things that go with it?
JOHN: The las t thing we want to do. ls
play in Brighton f orever rror€ o It t s not
that we. don t t l ike playing here , but
we ve got to move oo,, Hhat will happen
if we s tay in Br igkr ton i s that f or
while our gigs rill be packed, then
people will alow1y lose interest r and
eventually we I 11 be ptayir,r;g in the
local pub, to ten people agaj-n, like
in the beginning. Signing a d"eal is just
part of the natural growth thirrg.
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Welle fhe Piranhae ARl,l groringr and i Gantl see them playing to audiencee of ten
for a goocl rhile yet. nut at the same timel theyrre hard,Iy the next Beatles, and I
only hope for their ee'k6r aad the eake of their potentially large number of fane,
tbat they don,ft ov€T-eatinate thelr value to the nusic i-ndustry by holding out for
too uuchl a"4 erd up heing elappeil on the rrists and. e,enrt home rithout any 6upper
f,or being greed.y bo1rs. Their cour&ge in turning d.ownr eone b.lg d.eals alreaity is.
aituirabler rhero so nanJr ba.ad.e opt fbr the faat huck auil errd up inr.g-traitJackets,
hnt theyrre not indispeusah'le tri the nusio irdustry or the oreat,ditish-Fublic;
end if they push it too farr the record conpaniee night juet IosS pettience and
imtereetr and then sooner or later they WILI b,e back playing to ten"people in the
locel puh.
For the tine beingr thoughr deal or no d.eal, they are due shortly to release
their second eingle, Yap Y:ap:Ia.p/ Happy Fanilies on the locatr Attrii labelr, rho
releaseai tbeir tro otbei vinyl excursions to date. lfho knors? It night be ihe next
[Are Frieads Electric?" or "Oangaters'r. If gor, it roultl give then vagtly inproved.
bargaining Bower rith the najors.
When I talked to then, I:iound them affable and ready to talk about thenselves
and their music= not playing at superstars or wond.erftrl people with rings. Letrs
hope it stays that vay. There rag also an agreeeble }ack of carefully thought=out
collective world=vierr for aJ-1 Johnts kidd.ing. During the intervier lhey frequently
disagreed rith each other and argued. anongst thenselvesn and. that oan only be a
gootl thingl the ray I.see it. !'ricti.on rhich causes constructive, positive
resPonses among ite nenbers is the life=blood. of a group rhich rants to continually
chaage; gJroy, mature. Thie lot aren,tt a buach of earnest young nen trying to cran
their earnest young viere dorn our throat*1 Pop Group style. Theyrre basj.cally a
good-time band, and theyrre there to be enjoyed. rtnjoy then.
By the tine you read. this, the fears I expressed further up the page nay prove
to have.heen uafountted by the ners that The Piranhas have eigned. a iavourable
contract vith a hig conpany. I hope so, because theyrve got a,. lot to offer, an6
their music *ill appeal to many people.
tr'itnql rord. to the Piranhas thenselves: Donrt blor it, Iad.s!
IViICK D\trYER
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You I ve heard of The Fridfe House in
T0 Bg s€€N.,.
Cn nning
Tovrn? THE'place for banCs (a.ny ba.nd) to i:la.F in
the tr:lst fnd, a.IcrF.ir lieccs of the Mods. ijell
there I s ilior€o It I s ,r1 pub ; i:r gig and a record
cornpaily a 11 rollerl into one r. nd run by Tem:i
Iiuri:hy ( tir e boss ) , Glen ''uririry ( pub m,x.na $er and
bo:*er) , and. Jon I'{cGe,:.dy ( ttre i::ost inporta.nt one
to )'ou I cos he I s the ()ne to send t:rpes to if
you 1.;i: ilt e Eig )
A. Pub v{ith a record conpany?
Itrs a pub and bands play there seven ni6hts r lre€k ( r,.rhat a"re YCU doing tonight?)
By day itrs a record conpany. Teruy llurphy satr the need for another venue several
year6 ago. He started r.rith band.s l-ike Tom Robinson, The Stra.nglers, The;lezilos
etc. etc. and lots of local groups, tlhe Ticl<ets1 and lirore recentLl', The Oockney
Rejects, amoung others. So pleased nith the succsess of the venue, he decided
herd piece together an aIbum, just as a thankyou to all the bands whord nlaled
iher6 regularly and oomehotr been overl-ooked b3'the supposed-:y ecclectic elres of
the BIZ. Ehe doubl-e live album rA week at the Bridger r..'a6 recordecl and produced
by Chris Thorepson ( then of l"lanfred ltrenn ). For sorf,e cif the banrls it 'nrae tfretr
only recorded vrork, but for others ( titce Night ) it was just the leg-up they
so badly needed.
Ttre last
ffithestartofBridgeIIouserecordsrthenoneofthefeutrue1.yinQpenda.nt
record conpanies. A brace of singles folLowed. tsticky Jackf frc'rl The '-:arn: .T€tsr
IRockashochar by Rebel, tltll- be *vour FinUpt by'ihe TiclcetsI rl'rrods doriIt sbil
rent (an ode to Durex) by Z:omo. - fony Bl-achburn d.idntt play e6* of them.
I,lot deterred,'-Uerxy decided to go for bust q"nd rnalie a couple of r,,3.buns, one of
Itheatricalr rock band Dogrn'atch (sort of a cult brnrl in the East pnd)e and'nother
of an amalgae of srurtly dressed people '..,ho trere going <lown a stcrm on i'ionday
nights ia the pub....Mods.
T'he Fresent
I'lods llayday '7?.
* 1t nen nunbersl ! ner* bands r'
'Ihis, the clefinative nod (and BridgeHouse) album, h,rs been the l"bels big;lest
succes6 to date'and is nor* universalLy aval-iable through rristi. Tlhe n:cds still
gone
play on lionday nights! even thou.gh many of ther:r featrrred on the rlbrr.m h:-ve 'llrirl8e.
the
on to bigger things, Secret Affair, Squire Pr co.1 the;7 stil-l return to
-l.es,'-:on?
C.K. thatts the story so farl aod:rhy shou)-d you be i:-:ter.:ste;l:ln.lli.strry
'al-lling
l'ounded
c:,r.l.leci.
tl,ell, lets say your., banci, rny band, but lets say 1'ourre
and yourve sent your tape to five miliion places and the:f stj-Il danrt ltno',: you frcn
Adan (the r,taunclei. r*hot). gut youtve sent one to the Bridge antl Lhey lffer you,L
trJ-ay a fetr ti::ies and thel' selrrf'.,'h:.trs
support gig (nig deal eh? - It rnight Ue).3o you
r.;rell
r,ghatsit?'t
river
you
Ao?ItDor-rn the
that son!
, sortehor.'lr(;u rri;ht end up'.'rith:r"
piece of-plastic that says on it ttThe'alking'.'ounder'1 tr !!)orrYi oir the river l'-'aiting
ior the r*ind. to blor*'r. Yiah, this is a.lfiost - true storl'(the sinSle isnrt out;rnrt)
The t'uture
r'
i"iell, apart oron uFcoraing releases fror.: RolI Ups fferry Iia c i voy" th e f u ture is
to bo ther f inirhing off th':
l".o r.
(ths Inon Js$nt
work at $q ts*fohe.lc)
L ovc,tr
!#ALwt Nt
uJ*L;ruk**
a l5-
THt FoY
.N
Jvlic wa.tcd to rrrn g! . Ar. o\Iernati,ne ojinim
Or "N d*iust;1 i^iJ,*^t
t-r,^ tn.l po+sor.s-* J.lla R,ccl.;tl.
f tl* h,r,qsic r^d^stry-tte ,,;h. cs q, sto.,,
rfA foolleh consistancy
is the hobgoblin
of l-ittLe mind,s. ., ( Ihe farnous J ,r;;y Parsons quo tes frorn $mgrson , ( ph il osnper
,
not keyboard reptilian) illusi"uting
how to live the life of the rnost cont*
roversial critic of rock'structr-lre and
survive . rn o ther r+ord,s say vrha t you
like, but be sure you rre, sitting by the
escape hatch when you do so.
The prospect of rneeting the dyna*ic
duo of supposed. shlt-faces-ff.bout-tor;n
'*rithing tha plush c oc oon o f the r. E! . e.
was r to say the lee st r interesting. To
turn the tables on the enfants terribles
of the ( -open brackets- ldet - close
brackets I rochd,ream prornised to f l ing
these chic of"f ices into a stn te of
chaos. t;r s the man nigtrt s,r.f, I
FteLting typewri ters*toppling f iling
cabiaetg-f ires burnins oti"*u or p*yCIia t d
bank notes and free copies of
'blorr
train comingri -reels of f ilm flickering
a Debbie lramyT'Neil ,spencer bf;droom
6ceue on the fast coj lapsing waII. gnd
the sole survivor bein6 one honest john
fanzine editor stumbling out thr**gt
the fura€s r cordroys, and, piles of
un-€&rthed guilt. ythnow the score,
after all they,ve snidl r had &. mission.
x- Do you ever set sick of this rrrockbiarr
thing you re involvecl in?
-A soft u,est\,ountry accent pipes up from
behind the desk. r discover its source
is one 20 year c'ld Julie i:rrrchill-. irtere
'nre no fangs or diecernable bald patches,
.iBlrriiiell , you get useci to it. Tt is a
tsUISI-JESS a f ter a1L 1 f ecord conipenies, l_ilce
*nI_colnpanyl af,e afounrl ta make illon€,yr to
sell produc t , you can t t blnme thern for
doing that.'l
tt$eLL procluctrt- seems g- pretty l*impish
opinion from sorneone who cla ims to vra.nt
fo destroy the star t.rorshippins scheme
of things.
x8 "But hasn t t .rocli I n I robl go t any niore
ryeaning than th,* t ? r t knoll , crea ti;i ty ,
indipendance I El.rtistic expression, n
venting of feelings blah, b1ah..
Tony Parsons clipped lissex
shunts into the fray.
TP:rtYeah, of courser.but thatrs a very
priveJ"edged view. Bveryone has sot to
ha ve money to survive r no rna. t ter horr
independn nt anyone is , they should,n I t
critisise sorneone purely I cos, they ',r&rt
to get some. rt
f,-pan you hcnestly say yourve never
written soneone off just to caus€ a bit
of sensatibnalisrn to further your ot n
o
career?
Pluq tN.,..
,r 3. hueh decende (one s f the var:s*ly
Pregnant vari*t;r y
x* You cerry a rot of influence, after
allDo you feel any resrronsibiri ty to
the peoplg you r+rite about:
':'P: tt'igg11, nol.J you nention it, T supt:ose
rre have a cert+in nrH0rent of infl-u*nce in
tha t respec t. -i, r ve honestly never thought
about it th*t r/eF, :l" just r,,,rite r.rhat f
thinkl aod r rm totally h*nest ,.,he'l
it
come6 to r+ritin.e nbaut n b::nrtr sr r;:h,rt_
evefr I dontt pre*judn* rrlrrr-,rle" ftrs
just that r donrt hel-i*r* in hcnouringl
Ileoples reput,- ti,-,11s r l" jr:*t *it ,i611.,,11 and
write the truth. l lot or ,--,enple ,:lcnrl
lilte the tru th , hrrt r. c$uldn r t ,Eiv* -q
Cenn ,rboirt thcse Lr€o|:-1.e. rl
JB:'t:'.ie just cl.*nrt see the .poir:t of hein,g
so llolite *nd ,qenerolts to ,snme c:,f
people uhen they clr;nr! cieserve it. these
rjome
of these 'rsc]: star$ r "brea t :re{:ple l ilte
nhit just 1:ec,,dt fi* th*y hrve p r:o11 _1ilee
reilutation'
irre just ig_Irire their *,frst
things ancl trea t ther,,: ll *"crd in91;g. rf
peopre clon t t agr*e then they can cone to
their nlrn opinions, ilrey eloir r t hr r/€ to
t*ke .ny nctice of us.',
x;' so )rou r ve never {ione - il.d rrret Fiomerne
tr'ittr the intentic,n of c-1,_,fp;1 hetchel_5oU
Perr.y sold his Airfix-eroded integrity for 8500 Dy Tloggrr rY u rights of the Sniffin' Glue Brittanica to the ancient manager , rpl
Glye's Adverts, who published them as a t2 paperback, The Be '#a---i"-*l
of Snitfin' Glue. lt thereby joined the ranks of the long line of e:
pu *',-nloitation books, all written 0nder sweat-shop, slave-labot
cc
;lh
'/7y,'
Sirnira.t.,' .l-'_^,Tctched'Fan-Scenes.
Iarnla
shoe_sl
Wher
of vinyt i
rit tney had pur-
sornethi
death w
s e rIin
s
g,e';;# j:
w il;.::tl| lq a
;*jffit ol': ri.'fiil
^1
iTq',:
i
rec o rd,
r
re
s in
.:l lri
flygg;
"co
,, fanzining soon
m e wh e r
rn i n o ;J,vi
ng
;' ij
'77 the fanzines
lne; duplicated,
rooil;T:'li":1,fl{'i'"-13;l;"',1",:*'lir?i,:'ffi ,::;",",";
{iisrn";frffi ::li:*
r-grown wimPs.
ox rock papers,
the Queen, the
ring unemploy-
#:::
/ou would have
every coo
oi*ffi ;Tiffi irjlii":i;ff
genuine
ta
,f;I',*fffll:
en ts
";
;;';,giigfi$Hii
on them?
'
IP:rt No. Youve got to $o in r+ith ..n onen
mind. There are people that you.thinlr
are going to be l{..rn}<ers who lrr' out to
be aLright.
,
I.--n ':uch- as?
Tp:,ji;e11, I didn,t think Ird like Fee
i'Jaybill much, but r.rhen J rnet him he seernknen ryha t he tlaa
talking '.bout. y f t<now, t clon't iiii" ;;;
tubes imager &nd f on15, like tvro ilubes
songs, llthite.punl<s & Donrt touch !-ile
there) Uut r{e got on fine despite -ij- ot
that- -here 4.re lots of tinel
thnt
'hen
sort of thing happens.tt
l- .;hat do you see :16 being the role of
the rnusic ryriter ?
JB: ...\11 t{e do is 1et'l;id$ }cnow .,..,.h.t is
going on, and give r:ur c.pinions on it.
f t.s up tc them to check them out.,,
.f,- Are the rumours of pa.ycla true?
Ty:ttt\ot rea_Llyr.if .a rvriter rrss rnu$ enou_
gh to tal<e bribes then he d soon be out
of trork. Things li}<e tha,t gct around in
this buisness, his r+riting i.r,'ur.rl. be 'urcrth
nothing to anycne. rtfs not a big problem
or r.nything.i:
J(- Have you person:J.ly got many friends
who are musicians?
TP:tfNot mn-ny, a few. like T was chatting
wi.th tro€ the other day, we ve been frieia
-1y for a l_ong. tiner and I rtrasltrt sure
hovr he'd react ,to rneeting me again a:fter
ild said rvhat r think of the ciastr nor.+acl...
ays in the pajler. ,.ilfvrrf , t{e still Sot on
o.k. Hef s a selu.ible sort of bloj<e, Strummer, he realises what I ,gride about ,oeo_
ples stuff isn t personal.rr
JB: ;i.rugt cos lre havrnlt got nany rock_
star friends dosf art ureajr, anything. 1./e
dontt have rary friends anytray. Tir.tf s
how r,{e like it.
,,'e just hav€- a snal1
circle of good friends from cutside of
the busine66. Ve donrt go in for the
Ui6 social cirbuit thing at all.,'
X- Do you ever go out: and see g"o,rps
f or your ohrn anusement ?
TPs ..nard1y everr ro. f don't think
going to see a gig is al.l . that good any
.hrayr Xou canrt see fuck al1. fbe beet
BlSs Itve seen were the early ones at
the Hoxy, i;e used, to go a lot before it
, ,bccanrc rubbish.lt
X- tave you no friende. lvho are .writers ?
dB : tln here : tt ( Stre looke a.round the
office at the zeal-ous scribee bashing
their battered typewnitere ) rrl{ot ,""i.
lbey thlnk we sboul d do more of the
eort of things they do, vre're not rea_
- lly part 'of if.ir big happy family
thing
at aII. t'
TP: "ItrB just a ;,iU to uso lf the editof 'sks ua to go to Glasgon 5r sonewhere
io cover a Big or eonething and
' ed to be a good bloke,
;
f
on - they were
ileeved single.
-r.-- a*r,+lt r-* r,rwytirrnri oT Tanzlngs hlmsglf, Mark Perry of
Sniffin' Glue (what a girl), became just another Blast Furnace when
he shut up his printing press after Sniffin' Glue's twelfth issue. ln
this farewell edition he enclosed the free gift (no one would buy it!)
of his newly-formed band's first single - thus perpetuating the limp
myth that all music journalists are frustrated front-men.
tt --!aa
r./e don t t rrant to, then r./e
6ay we rjonrt.
l''lone c,f the cthers say
tha t, "
ffliost
Jll:
of then o"""' frustratecl roclr
shrrs anyvray.
i{ave either of you ever been
Iin a
band
?
fP:
',
ttNo,
of
je r.roul cin neither
,
t r"ra n t to ;:
l/ilY.
?t
;;""
nllf";
:;;:
JB: "Ihuy 1e.,6 horrible ltves, r.rusici*
ans. llp and doi.rn the- r,rotorr.ray
oi: the
tirne. If'd hatb it.,i
:t- _'eople could say that
lrou,re not
quallfied to,g3iticise the
:,or1< mlrsic
ians do, aF you heve no exDt:rience
of
working in their rriedium .,t'.ii.-'
could
say
th:t,
IPtrtPeonl..q
but itrcl
be ,:. stu'.rid cri ti c ism to
.
na6e .
,re are
v*iters,
rre
clon r t l.rant to be n'sicia:rs,
'v*iting
rue enjr.,y
,,.,,e
and rre goocl
t t I- s our job. r-'e ' ve both bJen at it.
borrght
up on rocls
, it r s n lriays fr*"" :r
big part of-nusi.c
our iirr"", !.re
l.*ite v,rh:t rve think ,:,b.ut rock"-nisic
";; n:iu to
;r-nd tha t t s just r+h,.r t i.Ie d_o. ,,
JB: ''l/e clonrt claim to Br able to
-ituy.
a musici,;rns lob any better
than
c,:1t?,, .:nd rrrueicians l+ho lrio.,..I1 .bout
should['t claim to be able to-J"-";;us,
job.',Jhen we hr.ve rousicians
guost things here on the paper-it
"*iiir.,6.;
are usually terrible_ no styf e :r t *y
aIL.tf
fP: ItI don ' t mind being ."i
ised ,
but l,.lf of the neoplc that tic
clr: it
can I t even lyrite their o, jn nage.,r
FaultLess 3-ogic . ,,. uri
can
criticise r,rithout being ..61ster
to
pi
brft F musician cr.nnot criticise rvith_
"y,
out being r.ble to ,.,,rite. f:dd con:ing
frorrr a cou:-]1e whoes o*g,rnrurtu ;;;(however ur;.,o1:uIar ) usu.alIy
hi;;iy
vnlid. I
only
that these
"tn such .,tbink
tro have had
lot of shit thro_
iln r t then in the ,rrast, they are
confused as. to why it is ueing-Jiup_
-.tched in their d.irection. ciiti.i.e
people three_ times and they t"na-to
dismiss it without bothering
ine the reasoninf, behind it; to €Xar._
I think that this talk h,s touch_
ed on a coupLe of points that ut
"rfais
be outlined. . In *y oninion trvhtch
as uselese as .anybobios) werre
stuck
with three factois rirat i;;t-ioili'
go together.
Generally, ,rnusici-ns r (none of
whone hranrt.to take a job on th;-n.fir.e.)
tant critisism to be mJre consrtctive
and specific.
Journaliste ruant th ir-piecee of
critisism to be good reading, io uphold
their own reputntion as writer & ,,iiti..
.
f
+]ra
rditors want to sell papers and vrill
go to i)rnctically any lengths rto do sp
( including re j ec ting- r.rork
tha t is not
ilnew6w.o"T-thJ ttgrr|controversiaI rr
ough.
or va;uelf icnnectcd .-iiirr-trr* enristo.!
$.
!o attract readers. )
lioich ie all- fr.ir enough I suppose,
after all, theyrve all got their jobe
to cio, and itrs truer you canf t bianre
thern for that. The trouble with that
is it Ie1v*es tlie people lyho really
ma tter,
0$,mugs r"rho f ork out a hard
earned fiveg.{rr an album, often ie
uninfoy'naedl,a;6 tr, , where in the first
place., .i\nd.'it i.- us people ,rrotutorra
be looki.ng, to indipbndant shops/labels
aa$ magazines for our future years of
consunership. By trAliS FOR F{l1iS (supp_
osedly) Stit1, bacl< to the talk.
X- lfirat do you think of the rockpress I
s tandr rds ?
TP: ttThe n.n.€. is niles ahead. of ite
so-calledtt (Ripper??) fr..1.ivals, but
I suppose ,it's fair to say it isnf t as
good as it used to be. Itrs lost a- bit
of its spark, but I thinli tha.t reflects
on the record.s being released at the
noment.rt
At 1e.st its not vice-v€r63r
TP: trllell yeah , it a in ! t TH."r T poverful. rt
X- fs the rivalry betr+een papers l,ery
cLc;
strong?
-
TP: rr Yeah. i,'e all hate each otherl
Our su;;]s,6 are different. ,his laDer is
nore live1y. r hardly ever bother. read,_
ing the others. 'tlgoa.g is alrightl a
nice bunch out there, tre only write fcr
them for fun, the,v pay you sod. .oI1.
l.- i'hat is the money like Eenerally.l
Tp: ttlf your freelance itrs'good. If
you I re on the staf f it's pretty qa p.
,hey len ve you pretty r:ruch to your
own devices thoughr so it's a good
job to have,,,
Itrs a job thc.,usands of pe,-pLe wr uld
like to have, when the rlroe€. advertised the vacancy left by hrsons q Burchill they !/ere swarnped witb applicn tionsc jrlthough the post had aLready
be en given to Paul tqorlg y and Danny
.raker.before it bra6 even made pubJ.ic.
t'ry and thinl< of alL the papers and
magnzines tha t have tpop t rrrriters on
their books, I can think of at least
two dozen, which rnakes this a massively
over-subscribed profps sion that , e
supplying the hot poop to a1I the
houseivives and young Liberals on this
doo-wapping Isle of ours. The bu ness
of writing guff about nusic ie alnoet
a6 big a.nd dirty as the nusic bueinese
itself, and neitner can survive wrthout
the other. Both are equally bloated,
both are equally nice to one ",nother.
l7
Papers lroo companies for thoee blg
bo ok( rhe n he t/as a nere ithisp of a laC
;lg :edt1 t6, ttThe l! idstt , nubl ished by iilhe
exllueive interviews, conpanies
bombarcl bored ha.cks wLth free recNe w EnrtTl ish I ibrary ( remember them ?
rs kiLnht9ff, d I & f liana' where amount t hnir
orde, luneheer Farty iavitations
It' telr,1 ry gems ). It sold ?"5 r|o0 cc,p ies
and buienese trips.
rrltre the easiest job in the world'i
be fo)re,b ein61 dis*continued. Leatri nE! the
rnd, er to wa ste his dubious ta -! ente
offere Es. ;urclill-- whord argue?
bo v wond
X- What would you be doing if you
tf (}:rkiin
n$
r$ in a gin distill. ery and th e
wer'nrt in tbis Job?
ten tioned dockyard. :rh€r r in 1-, te
af OT:ernrnen
,7 6,,hhe
JB: "Probab1y down the till of the
.e nftsl{€red en ad in the B.m. €.
as kiLngsf
locn I Co-vp. rf
;f or ttgunslingers", as did J ulie
i:lu:rc:hi
.11 (tfren a r,"lere 16 year- old j el'ri sh
Tony reakois herd still be on the
i11
sc holcIlei
dockyard.
,gi r1 in bear.i ti ful downtown n ris tol- )
re st is history,
IE
th
)t- g; it'e Juat an eacape then?
'd id you vrrite I Johnny t ?
x- jhyd
I woultlntt of thought it was rauch
TP 3tl j:'1
,ut o ( tfre publishers ) came a I ong end
lut
fun writiug about otber peopLe a1L
rg.
rd. 11S to 1."'ri te R book.
ke
your life.
ire thou sht it
uL be worthwhil"e., . so r,:,'€ d,id. "
lfP: ttthat I a probabl-y right. rt'e *a
x- r:t wa s bil"led a6 "the obituary of rock
opportunity for ue to write r trhicb
tn rr:ollL"
,f- " and. you s)"ag,Sed off paact j. ca 1"1 y
we both wanted to do, aad got pald
iI1ts in it..,
ev
er
one
Itfs'
')to
for it at the eane tLme.
nr
t'ha
t book t"rt s an r'ttempt tn d e ntrcy
rnost
important
not
the
certainly
s0tme)oof those niyths ttrn t $r.rrrar*ned tho ne
thing in tbe world for uB. rtrs
juet good fob a couple of yeare.
pe,o ',1e, r il.d this buisness, ''re ius t i-94::ore d thhe rlrlss thettve been carried f'l:if r":Ugh
rhatte why ve quit. $erre Just a
fr or1it thee t 60s , seyin g ttr* t r*ck,q ta rs
bit pieecd off rvitb the routine.
sh,ourlddb
p e talten serir:r;sl;r an* lcok ed up to.tt
r:r,- What a.re you going to do now?
TP: rrA filn. TbaneE approached us
r*tth the idea I but when theY heard
what we r*anted to do on the technicaL
side they backed out. lre went to
the ts.s.(r. with tbe idea .,,nd they
welconed it with opcn artns. They've
got an arny of techniciane dYing to
have their rbilitiee put to use.
fbey're lookiag upon it ae a ehalleage.
X- Did you get in e.ny trouhle bece-use of it'rtre going to be the best proggramme
fP: rt0h Ssah. llondies il,inlra.gementt the
on rock ever. .4LL the other etuff
A d'rerts r lit*rm 1 ly dcr"en,r of peoFle t]:rr€n tabout rrtusic oD t.v. ie uatered*down
ehit. l','erve got a r*hole load of vie- ened, to sue ris r V- rrrhere in cr:uf,t right up
to the dr y the book trIn s clue to come out,
ual ideas we want to put to use.rl
fheytd
i'rp?)lieC fc,r Rn injucti,:,n to ,sto.-, it
X- *ohat sort of effecte?
rrlote
rel"€,:serL,
being
but the judge rul.ed th*t it
of eplit-screeni-ng and
TP:
phorilri
orit.
J re*"lly erijoyed coTnnil in*
one
filn
on
$o
super-impoeing bits of
fi'r
the
evir.lence
the cnurt ca se. I thin}.. if
want
donrt
I
another. Iots of thlngs
rcoE
Hriter
wasnrt
1td l.i]."e tc' he € l.awysf,.?!
t
a
sone
you
looee
itrlL
to te1l
*ni e hA t € n ii a
cke t
i'li
por!;
Lawyer
th
of
a
poesibilities
lbe
-,n
inpact.
of ite
e
c'f
?
ful1
Fp
e,C
end1e66.rr
are
televLsion
,*{- faLking of slanCer r Cid ;r il}one 6ctun I ly
JB: It$ony and I are narrating itt
sue you in th'+ en d ?
wcrve got accsess to all- the film ln
TF: rr},lo; nncl thnt just Tt]'ovesi th''1 ever:irthe B.B.C. archives, theY've got
everytbing. h/ut"e getting paid roore thing r,.Fel sa id in the bnoh t"ra r; true. r'th€f,r'lise they i,.Iotlld. 've Con€.
for thie tban for anYthing werve
!+lhors been the bj.gnent infhtet'rce on
Xcver done. The looney in television
your
juet
rvri ting ?
it
fl"ing
ie ridiculous, theY
l.J
-a
a!
.,.j
I
11S
tn,iO'
-11
?TT
r.i J] at
J-l
I
;
!
t-'''o
l?
around. rf
you etlll be writing?
{-nl{iIl
ttoh
yeah. still contribrrting
.IBr
paper
and things. Tonere
to the
doing a book.tr
X- What about?
l[p: rrNot tellLng you. T]ts a novel,
eo youill- have to wait and see.rt
It tranepire that Parsond wrote a
u
TF : rtJuL ie rf
Do I detect a del+y Sl-,nce bett*een the
ri gt',1}Y -I,,'B ds ?
X- !'tea t sor t o f th ings do you r ea d ?
TP: rrl go through phases nf reading things
by one au thor r I Se t intere s ted in soroe one n.nd read evefyt{ord he t s }.'f itten. f tve
been through Kerclu& c r I'it"' gera ld r loo ds
of I em.lt
. N;.
is*
- t'dih a t sort of music do you listen
to?
fptt Early Pistols, a lot of ,sprinEsteen, some Tim Euckl€X. tt
llow street.
JB: rtEarly Hoxy , oh r all sor ts reft- lly nn;rthing th'' tIs good.
X - :,fo you ever go out an.d .buy re c orcls
for yCIurself ?
TP : ir1t r s funny you should sny th:a t.
lJe t ve just started going out ,:.nd
buyins our ewn records =S.is. Tt 's
much ffiore funr Hl{}.kes it t:iore of an
jf
?r
event. ll
ir'e ge t f ed up l.ri th Tre ing bombar *
ded with free recs,Isds, it rii:g sounri
great to Sotsr but it certainly t;,rlces
JB I
rr
r;Te sell.
a lot of the fun out cf it.
free
s.ny',ray
ones
mos t of ttre
r or" give
I gm away. tt
she
As if te unc!.erline her Point,
gives me' the r oP Srouprs ?tYtt,
jL- Is the actuel r:jusic stilj- *.s itilr:*
ortant to you aE it htas t+hen yc,u 'ere
back in school:
JB: ttl\io. l{ocktn'roII isn't irurp r,r t *
ant at * 11. l,'Je I re just not intere -"
rt I s jus t ,1;ood. stuff
sted in it.
to have cn in the b^ cltgrot:nd i.itren
you ' re tallting r Y 'know. tl
Yeah I f do . Calcula ted ironY anil
all $hat. TheY d*n I t re311Y c:'r€
about the stuf f tha t seeps frcm the
regorcls they rnnt on sc much :'bc'ut.
,tre .?pparent that theY, an'd i:helr
,colreagues cn the pr perF are -uore
concerned. with the im" ges an'* person
-&.lities that 80 urith it. *he
truth is, nobodY reallY cares
. about rock I n I rol;]' , no t r ea }'r'y '
lthough I d.on t t n. lt$e ]rs * #ree wi th
the s:-'ecific cftntent of their cl-evsr*
clever Fritingsn J vrish theri: elrery
$u;cses,.s in their self*j"npased niss
ion. ;r nd if tha t li:ea.ns I I m no t a
rcck fan , then LLF yiiurs 'rfiff. te .
I',{aybe vrhen the 'industry' collapses
se ! 11 be able tc look n t the art
ra ther tha.n the artists . Bu t f or
A
noH, r r
As I step out intc: CarnabY street,
that oh-so-tric ms-rket p-1"ace t','here
rr f gens and ;,. rlarchY ba d.ge sell
siqte-by*side, anC re,sFectehle bu3-
rinessil:en flog cheap ilrug
paraphinalia r just fot the tcurists, one und.erste.nds ) ., I een 't h*lP
bret notice the sericus elr.*rreflsions
on the f-c€s of the hcprdes of pu.nles,
hippies nnd mods elike Rs they p$r:'de s-long living cut their Little
piece of the rncl-" dPgn.fil . , *:ids
vicfir*ised feEtrires fl*.r,e d*r".rn r'rithI
a $tor*n i c gr i"n ' r'f t IS onl-;r r* ck n
*ral
1 ll
I'CI.L".
+
'
*,{n
by
VleNAsHr!\ BeetN
off the self-irai;ortant veneer of'ifallt
t3
rock rnusic for *" long t rs they
em.
to
to , and ffiore Po'.-'er
r1
l-
/fs
-nlrvicr.
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Deer: ,End. Dp.ns s *
A wor thy f ollor+-uo to their fu"rcon ' 1
c ontr ibutions "Af ter d,e rk "
"Cr'iminn 1 riltenti cnsf r.
n€miR ic ent of 'Tyr anersauru,S He x in fl biz" rre sort
of wn- f,. Pit ter patters alongr sticl.-s in th e s.3 ne
plac e sr yllinor'.r, t hat sort of t hin,q. *.,ove: y ham
Great .
8u
nui ta f C{:,UfteSy c f ;r ncly uopla n d eler,'a tes i t from
good
to riCiculou
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t\t
a
virgin
Memories - PUBLIC It1,1,G8 ',don't fergat the l,td.
How rnuch longer wil-L P.I.L. have to live in the shadow cast by the PistoLs?
They're creating the most incredible raod.ern dance end idiots ere sti.l-l forking
out for the conttnuing swindle variations. This is superb r+hite punk disco
music, long, dark and proud.
Smash it up r T$E DAI'1NED chis',',ric1(
llmost sophietiea-ted. rrore ftve Ehmunds than dAryneil. Ttre captd.in lets rin urith
his new found lead and someone fiddles with 0n organ at the back. Sou canrt
blane them for trying to rnove on a fraction, fut itris lacks just,'about every
thing. 'iop of the pops fo<lder?
You i ve got my number
lbe band which makes old rnan rock ntroLl put in his teeth' slip on hie locs and
get his first hard-on in years. IIot as good ae the surrmer hi ts t thre e tir-es is
too nuch:) but stiLl overflorving vrith ,.iispos,'ble energy.
fh.e monochrome set - MoNCcIIR{.r}.i.i silT rough trade
r6os sounds dressed up for the r8(-s. If fhe Valvet lJnc']-erground vere frcm the
:iest coast the resu-l.ts may have been l-ike this bcpfing dirge. Neverthelesst
way better than rilost - rrfrst.ade3eb1,e / you*re depl-crrbLerr - itts al-I fluch "t
lot of fun.
Never I ad nt"ithin
Never get nuthin' neither tri th this. i lik',ed i,icldle Tor;ers end evcn lleenege
l1r4i'.'.i;:*g, but i{:'' seems the;i t re just conteirt to be :iuni.erlc.nclg ailsll*r to ,r,lhafil
69 , and if that I s true they c:r"n s]'t cvii, i t.
the open .r FII{ITR,\ ?ICI'I
The trouble is, bearrtiful as : etllines voice is t
it I s Rever had the inrliviCual charecter of ,tia*
uxi€s r and here she seerns to be trying to ncund
as smooth and bland lcommercial) as Debbie }Iarrf'
rtte an obvious attemqrt tn get airplayr itilC they
nay be sucsessful .:"lbUm cUt r {rilcl they iii"i } be
sltgseggful. 1lUt bett'ieell yau ernC ne - itf s pot
really too ho t,
Found out too late - 999
Tbey were good once , bef ore rrFeel ini, alri gh t ' ri th the cre!r tf end atl that er3jl,
If yod like 6O year-old punks rn: king lii yer r-t:ld rir,U$iCn ;1,1:ut11 lc:ve this.
Come into
to
LAT€ exTRA ' ORCHESTRAL
tvl A N o€ u v eRs 45' Et?rlQtqw'
Straw Dogs - "$TIFF I,IFfT,H
ouT AqAtN onr Ff,cTt'8$.
Ikrleearn Photogrn phy
FTI.IG}iR.g.
Celluloid love r SA s0bgx EX CELSI EVERYTHTN q oN THrs
Flore pi ti ful- than an#{ry " I I ve
PRqE CEPT 'THUnSm.(S.
Perfe c tion
alwa ys thongh t .lakes v*ice
Dock of the bay - rHU$SDAY$
scund.ed l ike .a dent is ts dril1
Auto- Fuggestion
mounting * brick rrrSWR.Y. Rring
From eafety to where ...? ,r JCY PIVI fiTON
back the *evice-or forget it.
Faet U
fta.rcogl ?
EarcOm is tta comic for the earett, or so the
tlg. Itte a 12 incher
lads at Faet tel}
Kil].ing .Toke *cpr * I{ILLI}fG Jf'KH
'minutes,
complete trith a
lasting 2A odd
Iialici$us *te$e
comic and a F,osterr aJ-I for just over ?
quid. the idea is to get recorded stuff
A debut ten*inch €.Pr frorr: a
out from bands too youn6 to Se t a bona
b,* nd thn t n re a c 9mpl e tlY unknown
f ide contrac t r and. to supply you r+ith s
que.ntity to ff!€. Very T,yd'oil-1i1ce
much information about then a"s posniblet
scr#-tchings r scrnpings t n-nd thin6s
as cheaply aF possible. A rnore '.',iorthwhile
ttra t g* bump nor,r and # Sh,in. A
gimmic you l*ron I t f ind anywhere. It I s
gaoci debut :i c tun 11y. S Fpbllody
about time independant label-s investi$*- ted
John T-:eel h;.*"e st*-rted to
e"rently
a fellr aLternetivee to the *.ctual use end
pl"ay this enC Tiroriiises lr session
f ormat of the vinyl . Hopefully this is
sosn r sCI :tc) cloubt tlre;r | 11 be
just the be6,i nni 3S. Joy Sivisiorl r probably
hip and in the F,ounds altsrnntive
the best ltaown of this brrnch, were & bit
che rt by x*-Irts.s r
of a. let-d.o\.ln to ffi€. Suto-stlggesti'or: trsugUgi-y }"ian
seethes aLons anid a mass cf vausely
gestedtt sounds and snippets of speeded-'up
tape ( playins backwards ?) . It h* s the
Liark Fe*;,rs *H*:fi-rl3:"11** .
game fl,llellity of ctillne$S fi.s i',As i:oseesed
.$emi-csncir:Hs rrintg sl:at c'ut
by the Doof,s I building ta ttre enevit,=ble
over tinn*y pian* anrS. r*,*nic
clinnax a t the end, , bui somehr:w it d,$sen ' t
gu i- tar :rr: is€ . ,t n ntheri' f *r
quite i+ork. From Saf ety to wher€ ' . . ? is
th*"se *f us t,ih* feel evffir:ithing
; slightl,y upbeat ktnltz of the undecided.
is tr-t:ong trith the lv"i,r3d ' I
Tlrur*Aays t Perfeetion is s.k. , but they
{:entirnepit*: ; br: t T waul-dn t t
th*
love
set theinselves apart r'rith the beet and,
Yet t- no,ther Sf *tlT.' to
buy it,
most bizarre version of the old *tie
*u t f r-:'r thc: | '
tch
Red,ding ge& ,gitting in the dock o f the
Nuc J.ear -levic e * TIl:i i-:TRE I'lfiI,5RS
bay. It eounde like tlre Velvets c irca
Loaded, loose and slurr€d. ?his alone makes
$orry, thi* wa tered*d-ctsn "$atSgy
it eIl worthwhile. lguscraxr from Cleveland
af & record dt]s,tntt bel*ng here.
(not Ow-hi*yow, Teesidei. Corning from there
1* ds '
Try Time *ut
*t€alls they t re probably Roxy L'rusic fEtns r it
certainly sounAe it. Their barely controlled
Col* cuts i *-e - $TIV I3ATGRS
hysteria shows their ycuth, and it I s good to
?hi s is tha t itew York *u'Po?Fnu'
$ee bands like this getting a break. il'i:ey
the Ile=d Hoyn "inf t it? G*t
eertainly donrt let therfiselvee down.
etabbec t* de*th or ssElethingq
A ltogetlrer I Bf eat value for mcney r great
dic?ntt he? ; Thrtrs rigEht"
enob value'tfo, I-Jatch all these three banels,
Hessase to You RudY - THe ':Pst'*l r'S
the fn bul,oris eequel G i ER]I il'Btl
cl-n
-'
,=
\
F-
r,-'*.
tone
fhis label has brought out 3, ,now 4, nice
c o f fe e *table/nro d ish /r *ggg e ishr/da nc en"bIe
solutions to the revolutions. llow can the y
fa i}? they t re on telly rff{rre than Farkinssn
( thant< god ) . Nothing much to do r,-rith n nything, but good rrrhile we treed bt;r ter.
Plastic smile - }{ERTCN iJA RT{& S
Ctrtrysn 1i#
Fespi te the :'ronderfnL titJ.e, this
isnt t a pa tch on the Da t.* Panik
cl,:r ys .
And Y*u I d think the)'f dt lenrn
play
in syilc b.y nolr i',iotllcln t you-i
tc
He!
Beggars Banquet
can t t
believe how
everyone sw&llowed Gary Ftro one comes ano ther
bunch of dipp€f,s. r dontt like I this, but r
I
Can ,t unc!.erltand, why l{ods ' don t seem to
alout them'seli"ing outi,
eitb*r*'";;;;t[i"e
l{ho or secret A f fal-r
Tlhe
would
I mean I
that?
ever do
Fros the label who still
f
21,
rmagine a urall of speakers blasting
out ttNo feelingsr'. A dancefloor co- ntamin6ted witfi bodies ddnc ing solo ,
a pulsating m€ ss bump:ing into each
other! h*ving tfunr. those srightly
familier fgces cruise the coruidors
fraunting their latest clothes for
hero€Ei. uv light illuminates false
smiles r making thenq evsn more unreal.
Danger stranger, you r d better 3:aint
yer fac€. r
Itfs all a, see-y&-later situation
it t s all "I must go buy a clrink',
it I s all looking for my friends
-the peopl-e f was supposed to meet*
And t go buy my drink
and, I stand against the urall
-we aII stand a gB.inst the w6l1lAnd this pla c e is so sa d
tcos we rre all losers
losing heart and 1osing friend s
it dosrnrt rnatter
"no feelingstr.. rf Brtlee{ber?
But Jbhnny didn I t mean ttra t
I know what ,l-ohnny rile*.nt
Johnny had his head screwed on
-but not llowLike a 1l of ua
doomeg to die
*''like rrall fLowerg
:,n glorif ied opert houaes
waiting for friends who'11 never a.rrive
;_uet 'lLke t|" good times. o ,
-
'
o
*'
rtfhe FXusic Hachinett
:'Pa.trik Fitzgerald sits anid the potted
plante of Polydors "hospitality lounge "
he coneiderg playing '::ith the Frloiind 'rd virl,eo
equ iP#rent in the c nrner r but d ec ide s t
recite a- fev nor€. noem$ frorn the tattered,
exercise br:ok {in hin kneel Scrqwled rLo'rrn in
s.-: f €s r tr'* ins and r,r8iting :{oomg
, they build
into e rireEs *f exnerienees,End, ohsefvstiatrsr
r'iss*ta.li eB c,f the rnoral s, politics r ha blts
*nd
institutions we all love to hate. liis
iriting is s-bout f€nlity. IJe is literal ,
unl ike r sflF r a Bor,,rie CIr a Burroughs, he flb.kes
no etternpt to disgr:ise his intentisns wittr
cut *out c]'rarica. tures and ?rhunt the hidden
rneaning " lyric isr$ . He is hone st . Theref ore
he 1e..ves hir*seL"f r'ride o$en to simpl-istic
critisism. His ]:on*sty can easily be misconstru.de cils neiveity, his down-to-ii'arth
lyr ic;r 1 ntyl e as irnrna ture writing abil ity.
l:jo n'* ttrra]}y he ' s been the t. 1. get f 6r sn ide
j*pen concocted by rockscribee who ar€ too
out:of"'-touch to understand or too secdre to
care r &F& h6ve just one more single to retr' i e,.',r
iref{ire roing home to tep:.. Althcugh he ''in't
god.s gift to EnSl ish vgs€ r his writi.ng is
a f t en insp recl and thoufiht-Ff,ovoking, T knnw
how l:e f eeJ.g.
Itrs a lot lii;e th*tr the lt{nsic iiachine.
?'tYealr
, J wro te thn t ages a go , a Il, these ,''."runks
were jue t boi=:pin I around trying to I ook contented r, Ild in control, ttl{6 feelingst' was on.
Tt just seelied ft bit ironic at the time" It
c:' It be rref y s:= d, , th,* t pl" c € . rt
fha t poern 1 Rlong with hundrea ds cf others,
will probably never see the light of dny.
F.itusernld maf be erratic, but he is prolific.
Thi s f,ea r he t s toured all- over liritain , and
done gigs in l.reland , Holland '' od l'ranc e,
r::
2t
releasing the 17 track l'Grubby
Etorieert 1.p.1 a book of Doems,
and the "AII ser*n uptt & tffmprove nysel-ftr eingles on the way;
ltre not rare for him tti'slip
in new naterial at gigs (or on
certain radio sessione) eithen
'njhen asked about his workl.oad,
he sniles and looks s3.ightLy
cbuffed.
ItWeLl-, I work on the theortrr:
that I In going to drop dead at
any monent trrou see, tha,tts not
a morbid theory, it's just a
was gcing to be treated differently, thenl might as
uell neke a oint.out of
that difference and survive
vifhptrs vhy you et..rted
writing;
i:one of the reasone, yeah.
uuet to prove to a1]. those
idiots t school that f an
somebodyr yikaorv...
Se grins. I recaLl the sentinent. The rock,n,roll
(freak/ ahow is rnade up
aLmost entirely of teenage
rejects. Towneend, tsowie ,
Dury, Botteu...
ttHello, Itm a reject,
all" of fHIS.'' (He Sestures
i
theory of practicality. If I
didnrt think like that I'd probrb3-y never get any work done.
It gives me a Eense of panic
does one arm han$ down
to workl to leave rny mark on
the world before I go. I just
. longer : r'
vrite things as they comerdor*n
"uptimismT Rejectrl
Xou're very independant
in me Little book. frve got
Loads of stuff at hone.rr
then?
rrYes. 0 yes" ri'hatls one of
Q; Ie it theraputic?
the few things that f do
PF:rtYeah, I 6uppo6e it is,
after lrve got it down on pap6r believe in, indipendF!rrc€.
You've got to be .os indipI feel contented for a while,
glad itrs out of my systen. Ma- .endant rs possible. I mean,
any origion.l thoughts ycu
ybe everyone should d.o it.ft
brv€ come from you being .n
you
paranoid
46
lot
as
a
QiAre
individual. Mine do, I hope
of your stuff suggests?
PF;ttParanoid? Oh yeah, paranoya Itd tit<e to be r.e indepenie my life. Itve been na.de that ddnt as possible.ff
How' ie independance poesibway by other peopl.e.tt
l-e nowadaXs r itper"sona 1
It dosrnft require too nuch
inagination to see why. llowever polities?rf
l-iberaL London is supposeil to b rll gui:pose it t s tli,'t, yes.
a lot of people dontt take kin- I tbink people shr:ulC. h*ve
dLy to vierral oddities like thi far rriore freeclon when it
.bive foot not mucb, hat perched comes to p;uiding their own
on top of streeked b:'rnetr dan-. lives, they shouLd make
gling eamingl aseorted coloured decisions for' thensel',;es a
frxfan hang offs, soneones ab*o- bit more. I ihink pp,rty.
;io3-itics is e johe, it ' s
unbelieveable, just think
of that e.l"ection. "
feet. -r'l/ictin of their lack.
I Doa I t f olLor'; l-e-, ders t
of feelingp/victim of their
r
rR.9.I' I ao easy t* sprn-.i
on
lack of brains.rt You know
i
the undergroundr so hard to
the feelLng? Eers a naturaL
rut into action. Itte hip
noving target.
to stand there sloganising
if yourve got a guitar in
Eave you been picked on a lot?
ycur hand,.
ttl suppose r bave, yeah. nll
the time at school. ,lt's not so Qttluet how comdrtted are you
do you etand?
nuch getting beaten up or anYth where
rfl
for e.nything that
staad
-ing though, so much ns being
wiLl
instigate
some dort of
treated differentl-Y fron other
gioing to
change.
not
Irm
peopler r Euppose it stenned
or
Thatcher
something
Ehoot
fron rny size" I was alwaYo
wish
soneoae
wculd
I
though
ah'atre of being different floq
I
do
uhat
beLieve
in
sin6
I
an early age. It's Lao,e of
r,ai,age real}yl i nean, r didn'$ I would.nrt do it otherrrise.
cven kaow if ny parents liked ne Like, if there gg.€. c revolor notr it took ne ye re to work ution br scinethingr then
that oae o,ut. weLl, X finnall"y what came e.fter it h s gr:t
to be nore interesting th*n
Gatre tr; the cecision that if r
doned. sandles oa grubby, b^re
t o the f" xf crd j:lt . cn vR Ic "
ade *,utsicie) rlylkns,.,', buses g;oin5i" up nnd Ssl'rn1 f*ges l-ookinfl out of ,iindavrs,
i,;ids l-en'inB schc*1 i'rith
the snfile exF*ct* ticil$ r
sarile pre;ur3ices , s $le eger
* ryth ihg
" A 1l- living in
the snfiie cycle r:"g their
pnrents r . not p, dva.nciflS.
,lust going rln to Iive niserabl-e Little J-ives th" t
are jumt the s=n€ .*-s everyone *lses, T ddnf t bel-iev
in it'r I donnt believe in '
', n]t cf, it"
,{t l-eest T can
proi=ris,e H?ys*lf that l4Y
life is going to he interestinn, if ftr-rthi*S e]se"tt
.
-,
tl-t+hgn
"yCU
1ie1.e {1 krAy
yf'H n)trray-* ?Ja].lte'-{. tc be
s-i0r,1eilng
ycu ltne t ' ycru n f,.'ver r-r.Iolll d. b
r+li en y', th,'ugi:'i t a h*-ut it
1t-i:"r ch t i:," e s
not €rft-rugh
-l trs
it't s never enough, .' ff
tf
,1 11 jiewn Uptl
It mes.ns a 1o t to * r tha t
scng, just lil"e ??lTel pl ess
Cancer t' , or ttFactc'fY" , or
even l'.he Purnle t{en rts
llFruetraticn'I.
All nsl*;ing f.nilier c1l0stiohs.r nfrne of thern nven
ITt
cffering
*ny ferJ. n]'!s"r*f,$r
"' ny '- nSr"'.r*f
fl - "Ha V€ l;rCi: gO t
-re ?
PF ; ttl'{o. r r . It t s sad t
!:ut
!1lor Tlrn no J'uclrin' mess*
ia f igirre or F, t'ilf th Ilfl. I
don't clairn tn h*ve) the
an,gt'trers I T I m c *rt'l i nl)r
not Qlrn'l if ieC tn give thenn
i have certain i*e.rsr but
thrtf s nc.t nF i'port,.rrt
z+
iliI -'
,I
I
'l-
,a
!?i
at poaLag the qurstlons. People should think,
and aupply thcir own answers. If I help any
perBoa to think a bit more about their
own
prrtlcular deetiny r and to take a nore po6otivc rolo ia' their ordn d,estiny, then that I e
8ot to be good. Youfve got to anash things
dora before you can build a bravr new uorld
or vha tgYor. tf
Do you think a revolutio$ will happen here?
Ql
trl doart kaou, I hope Bor otherwise lrn waste
tng nJr tine. f ntght aa rell be churning out
stuff like Rod Stewart or soneone. No change
la golag to halpen overnight.?1
Qt So you thtnk'you catr u6o music to instlgate
pol.tttca I chaage ?
rUcllr BB I eaidr Xou ca! use it to make rem
thiak, pcrhape nake then aak thenselves queetLoas. Tbc reet ie up to then. I nean, itte
obvl.ous trhe effect things like ttAnarchytt had
oD pcople. Uhen tbat cane out I rushed, out and
got tbat r I uented to be in on aaything like tha t
tbatl Punk shored how diasatiefied people were
rlth thinga, not Juqt nusic, but everything. "
It opeaed up a uhole lot of-doore for you.
nlcehi'tbat crploaion at the beggining really
orottcd lcr cyeryone eeened to be doing sometLdagr I uaa goiag out and seeing b'nds agal4,
ullcb. I hednf t done for Jrearsr ard I was meeting
I lot of pcopl.e who thought like ure r So f thoulIt I atght a6 uelI get up and play tbern my
tolttr rhlch I rouldaf t have dreaned of doing
brfors. lnSrusy, l, trae ln thie awfuL bandr and,.
r11' tbo rcst ranted to play old Stones things
efi crap ll&c that r s9 I left and went out on
tt outao I rrally feel a part of that movementr
lt plaaca rc ott rhea pebple Bay that I have
ffSllg to do rtth it. Tba uhole cllnate waa
cid cf clu6c, it uas rea1ly encouragiag, rrd
t li.Iod e lot of rbat urt goiag on and being said
nllr ,by Jolnny Bottcn and people.tt
tot lh{ i;bc taac backgrouad.
- t&CI| 'I,ydoa? Ob ycab r Catbolic granner schooL
afd el} tbat Iot. n
["iis brougbt up in that environeat
;;-t;-tfr;
*lcl to[ tblat aad agk queatione a bit earlier
nrtt
tle*
lI rtlpt c!. lt doca. It I e an obvioue thing to pick
llp elr trrrTtll,agre Gratrcrated r all theee peopl,e
tafll.;3 tou tberc gtorica and thinga r Lt 's a btt
,btl .to taho ttLaotq Itf e natural to aek qucstions,
brt tollft rnppoacd to elt back and accept it all.
I ttlrl. tt nkm'you a blt aore rcbelloug . 'I found
lt rXl'itr;l'tally unbcll.cvablo- I do beltcvc that
O?fffiIr ot rorctblng la arouad aonswherG. It etrikes
a sc{-f i
_|tfffi. lo rt lf tt t a ltke eoncthing fronne
werc
ffi. fltt tbcar thlaga uatching uB like
llveg.
If n not sutre if I
Cc tfu trlly, t3ldlag our
llll ttrt ldee tbou6fr 'lt nakeg uE out to be
Ot rouf.tblagr t dontt rant to be anybodl'cg
ffib
trynntt r 'aycr
trlcd acckl,ng the an6w€rs to thoee
W; til
cEtttlolrt
t; {idr I qlltt !t. tbc pol.nt rcaIly' I Gatrtt understrrl r11 tfrar proPlc gottlag into tbeee religloas
and ehu!_tlng
, ' r$l tb1r6rr.llkr ,proplc golng a_wfl
f! all- seems
,W|ulht4elfrt 111 rcnaatirlci and thingcr
nc' r havc thougbt or booking
Eliilili-Af.t."t, lo
myeerf into an asvruu for
a t"fi"vg"$ ll:"*o'
-.,
j};l'll"n:li :1"1t:'"nlriilr"i*", toth?lt'"""t
Juat
I
-
tnel- g"fng-back don't think
of the ,rn"fa andeort;a"outl
'But r
to. get yoo"u"i'r
it ' I don I t
wortb
ansner;-";;
eeeklng those
tl
knou.
dozena
your ,eci-flr idea is reminicent of
read?
'what
do You
of booke,
I I vo 8ot
*1e11 r t
rf Nothing.
bored by
""hi-"nytrrios'
quite a few books b;;-i o"o"Ily 8et,
it
find
I
flret
{"*.ptgcs'
them after the
no great
have
I
then
in
'
hard to get invol'ved
if th't's what you
influencee foon ttil"it'
mean.Iprefertow.tchthetel.lyreally..''.'F
.
Schucke.
Atthiepointone.'f!}e.gd'vaBta8egofbeing
bis r"u"r is _nai.) e e r'parant '
signed ,i;;";
of cold
ule are brought in "*lo*a
ew 6wt'gg
tn }cee I f^"ott:-.:f
p"iiilt
rela'xes
Larger' bis Past'
about
bit
a
and teffe-me
factory he
frlrle dad I e dead, tu*ilcs to _the
t*' and I Il've
itt"
worked
'
and
'trueUandr
wiLh me ui"i"" ana her
at hone"ir*iiu'srr"i;;;
o bUp t l'u:" real'ly
cours€
of
l"'lun
me
4nd,
" the dol'e
a cat r
I was oll
good, putting up tilu- me
' *I*'e at hone Juat
ep"nt
*oi-r
year8
for three
in i'"^t ":l;
,riiti's i"i- e"ttins
l"Hiilurt"
of Y"iIl^"?:";;
an office for a couP1e
tble
o f worked' in
elrt
I
and'
that
r
ted
ha
thing aerell t wberebut
;;;;""
connounity
or
eort
protleils- "na stuff,
.;;
people ""."-;itl. t;;;;nuctr
erood. I en Joyed
;
I t think it "i-r*"a
I didn
dif f erent
,
.ilavin*
being o, ttre doLeploir"l
gave I$e the
it
-""a so r wouldnft
hours rron moet,tii! thinger
inspirrtioo to
get
idre chat I it' s notin
i,ilit;" indulses in
riuerl:|-" Iitp
been
h!'s
whv
bard to """
paperg'. He r E
6orne of the lese ;t;el""tive
he looks
;;elq;oti"""ioe
'
fairly €r sf, 8o1ns
rraillytt
thinga
'
like a clown , h9 - says soqeItlEeagxtowritr;i*-offaajustanother
hprd to be as
novelty, anothet'Xfa trying
possibl?
aa
I ^]h" with
eccent"i" anrl shocking p:"" 'i""' llttercd'
pa6ies of yeeterdnys P't
ninutee
theirl5
it*oing
these token t"i"il"glug"
prrirceediage I
the
intbis
B)'
of falne'
caae here'
ien't the
rearieioe"init
t'
j
tbis
t'r
ovi"e
PF :
' i--3"
do are
of the intervievreof^1thc on€
ft!] tark.- lioet- rilppant
re -ru:18
pol'ntl;;; ' {}"t
beforeit.'Itall"'bsup;-;illghtwcight.tl
you about your
Icah, r *"" suiig io askinage '
fbe mioa sspidlt chanEe8'
rna ,,c I: I ve bsen
^^ - ilnagc
,r,ob r thie ruclcii '" t;Ev-u"""
a1l ' I 6uppos'
ai
if
gtuck with ' 1 aon ' t lii<e
I.rvebeenonfori'o"tein.tbatre6pect.||
th;l- it"g" though?i never went
t,lbY il'iu"t"
ilWe1l, tbere'B ; fev re?sons'
IFAGS' I never
in that
out to pueb any p*tti"ular
""itur"e
concioulry rriedvi;";;;;
t€.d
reapect.Tbat"ra"ofitloa.'iintintereetE€.
depends on what peoplc
I Buppose it ai;;how
8€Yera1
treatedr
tbey:re
into songsr and'
h4oRE PFrrRl t< ,.. jt
thinge z'ea1ly; rhe way they re recorded, ytseel I
find it hard to sit dorn to
record thiaga in a studio.
I canrt eettle down. I like
the inetant re.ction you get
at gige, vhich you obviouely
don't get in a little roon,
and things I do tend to cone
out aE being a bit cold and
glippantq but Irn getting'
over that problen now lcos
frve got mysetf a good tape
recorder and t hope to experinent with that, so things
should rapidLy inprove froo
to y,our play
at the floyal CourtttYeah, t&tbytalkt. It
Has pretty $or:d that.
$ome bloke ju'st a sl'ed
me to rr'rite A plaY r s0
I did , T,'Je got a I oa d
of youn$; kids t0 act
in it And sort of
invent their o1':n char ic ters. TheY were tletY
the acoustis. i'ie thought it
r, t-Ihich L ed.
r{ou1C be nice to put just a
sax together with an acoustic and have nothing else
with them except the vocals
It lenves n lot of spacs.
Bowie ha s d.one tha t ; so I
suppose itre a natural cor[por rison to make , but I know
when I trote that song r lt
was back in '?2 I think,
and I waen I t rea llY into
his stuff then anywayr I
know why I wrote that song
toe. It was a.bout nY beet
friend at school. ' IeII r she
was a girL nnd didn I t gc to
the same school as ffi€ r so i
it Has a bit difficult ' but
we worked Bomething out. rl
He smirlie, but dosrnrt eLa-
go*d. n
r IJha t future plans ha ve
you gc't?
rrgeli ybu knop J|ve
been sort of hiberllzting
for a While, tlell f fm
stBrt ing tc.r eig I b it
lYou rneln yourll n.?ke expernowr Trm doing
rflore
imental music | .uro Fitz?
nNo. Itm not really that
guite A fetr gigs nrornd.
the country CIn riy olr,rll' t
interested in that sort
and s$me proba blY on
borete.
of thing, not renough to do
the Fenetration teur'
it myself anyway. I nean l.f l-1 f ftf s true to say Bolrie was
Nothing t s redrl 1Y'$orted
an inf luenc e then .
record tbinge to see their
effectl and get used to being ilI like him a lot. I suppose out dt the rnoment 'cos
Ilm r'rithout I contract
he was the nearest I ever
recorded, nrybe even juet
r,
I
rsa.
f
igure.
hero
to
had
a
. t the mom€rlt. !'
record all my stuff there.',
ie tha t ?
Back to your imngel donrt
lIy admire his klriting abil- 'tl,Jhy
riJf,rs just that liiy
ity, I respect him f or wtrat
you bl.ame the {rre6s for it?
con tra c t with PaIYdcr
trto an extent. They never
hets done. I didntt like
lout , anel theY I re
tf Lodger?f at f irnt thou$h t
ran
me
aek
anything interesting,
t
but it s grown on me rotro tle hqmiqs and harinfi al:*ut
theyrre very predictabl-e and
f 9.rfi9,to'ing it "
didntt have a lat to saY on
obviouB. rl
re yotl g'-:,ing to go bn ci:
tr
reeentthose Capital things
f I feel guilty as f ask the
Srnelf irionder ?
with
disea
bit
was
a
ly though r I
next (obvious) guestion.
tl
the r.rhol-e ;m int 0f
*pointed.
"1,{e11
Then why ilo lt?
to trolYdc,r bras
ne.fioing
Hen
h/ith
tfWell, I euppose it sticks
vlere
invclved
r You
\
of l'Icrk
(
lot
pitt
a
Bov,rie$
to
nn&nn
f
irst
Set
Ser
By name in the paperr the
ii)heY
thet5.
f
ror:
cnreer.
abray
on
in
In
earlier
Your
on3-y other time I
nentioned
crf f I'Jith it pissed
1.,r€]'.€
ome
t
c
thn
about?
did
I{ovr
is when I get slagged. off in
trWell , be ing rea 1IY n+ iv€ r
It,e bnly tsete ( Stennet )
the review section. I doart
and his r+ife r3oing it
-1. just tlrote to him " rld
let it bother me'l
tc sort of helP People
asked him to be mY lTlane.ger.
(r tnin* he doee)
out
rr..itfs just that I donrt
A bitr nnd When T
I thou6ht If d be whisliecl
selling qu:-te I
btarted
away and be made an ovef,like to be judgect by their
tlie:r 8c't
i.lf
records
1o
t
llY
night star ! I ron
u6ual stanfurrds, which are
extra
I
the
with
up
fed
easY.
that
thousht it d be
alwaJre the sane. Irdant to
d.
wnrkLoa
a
rne
helpecl
i r1rwaf, I Ken
make stand:.rds of mY owrl.rt
r-You dicl- gigr'; in Trel.a nrl
Iot. He susgested that I
' He rounds his conments off
rec ently"d idtt t t You :
to
l
esscns
singing
take
by concluding
ttYeah, 9olYdor lilte ne
tfon the vrhole, journalistic
i.mprove rny c onf idenc € r and
ther€o T was met dt the
I did and he got rne inter
quality is niL.tl
'
A irPcrt b]' th e chn irn'n
ested in the thea tre and
Now you 6ee why Patrik Fitzr
n nd given a ri de in thi s
things whichIt I d, never
gerald is the dgrling of the
' preea. Back to the beat.
thought of .
play
people
I
fhe
ParafWhen
noid Wardr they alweye seem
to say...(he cuts in)
nI bet they eay Cruel-lest
Crine sounds l"ike Eowie!rl
Yee, Huaky Dory actually.
r(Be laughe ) trReally? HeLl
tbi.tre funny rcoe'thatr6 one
of the few Bowie 1.p.ts I
. 3iott got. I suppoee itrs
I10W On.
?l
.,1
'
rr
-
--tP
':-a
bloody 6reat limo, yrknow,
I thought "fuckin hell"
like! Iref"nd,s weird, itre
really .ol-d fashioned, in
the hotel they thought I
was a aut or sonething
'cos I v{as werring tbis
Kinono thing. It seens a
very bigoted country.
The gigs were good though,
except in Dub1in thebe
punks uere trying to be
like relfast punks and
had a bloody great fight
uith these Catho1ics, and
= bloke r,as stabbed, which
wasnrt very nice. fhe ironic thing wae they didn't
know I vras CathoLicl I
origicnally went there nith
the intenticn of doing a
Roots thing, yrknow, finding
your ancestors, but they
were al1 dead so.I didn,t
bother! rl
(,{:Are ;rou going to do any
more poetry books?
Itt donrt know. I did the
first one rcos the people at
?.II.A.P. (fower ltanlets Arts
Projecti are friends of nine,
and itrs a sor.t of good
East Bnd caurie yrknow. ! may
do a songbook, reos loade of
people write to me acking'for
copies of ny songs to playl
and I spend r*eeks writin6 the
ihings down, which is difficult rcos I canrt write nusic.
Q: Eave you got a lot of ngw
na teria 1 ?
"Some yeah. I bavrnrt been
writing a lot lately becauee
Irve been coasideriag retiering. Irm not sure if what lrn
''doing ie that worthwhiLe
anyntore. irve been re-eva1uing everything. lrn aleo
pissed off with the record
industry side of it. Ird like
to write a song and bave it
: out straight awa.Xr but the
whole proceaa takes too 1on6,
and by the time sonethingrs
out Ifve f,orgottea about it.
I like the instant reation
that nueic is suppoeed to
have, if I didn't rrant' that
*rd probably just rritE
atories and. poenE.tl
At first l though this retirrment tling was juet a
quoteable ploy, but it does
aeem . tha't Patrik is, serioueS-y
thinking abott bis role in the
L7
ttbuy me,/se11 me rt rec ording
routine.
rrltrs just thr,t Ttm a bit
disench'nted with it all
at the aoment; I probn bly
wouLd have cuit before if
I didn t ha ve c omitments
(fre gl-anc e s over hi s sholtl *
der a s if the PoS.ydcr brass
hn d just r+a lked in ) tta nd f
enjoy perforrning if the
reation is posotive fr*m
the people !;s. tching rrle r
So If11 probnbly continue
to do what 1 am now, it
just seems very clastrophobic in ldngl-and. f lsent
to rngterdem rec ently an d
it wa s r€n lly free nd
easy going over ther€ r then
I got back to i,ondon in
the rush*hour, it ?rr s
raining of course and
everyone wa s d,. shing a.bout
looking ntis€rp b1e. I
thoug;ht I rra s go ing to
cr.rck upr it was a f,eaI
shock to come b,*,ch and see
this city as it re.11y is.
That didn I t help na tter$. "
Are you going to move ?
?rf doubt it, I live here
and in sorire ways it t s
great, itrs my home after
aLl, not that I feel- at
alL patriotic about it.
I wouldn't mind Living on
the rsle af Wight thou{iht tt
Do you feeJ- hemmed in?
tVet'g much so r f In typecast aB a muaician here,
I consider myself nore of
F. writer than a music in n.
I I d lihe to be reffiembered
for ny writing rather than
?
'"1
:=
f
my music. rl
Is your writing irnproving ?
ItI think 5o r rnost of the
stuff I I ve done up to now
has been fairly lightweight.
Just scratching the surfrc€.
f ts,r uniting gloonier songs
now, Jf$ not woruied that
theyr 16 gS.oony r ' cos they r re
more important than the old
stuff. rtm Just tryins to
pinpoint trhat I s blrong uith
the schenne of things r using
short, acoustic pop sorgsorf
r It souneis lilte .Jac quee ;:reI'
ttHa I I really like him. I
got an alburn r:f his in France
which is reeLllY piood. VerY
r.rei.rd sort of caberet stuff.
I I ve also got one bY
of aLl peolrle,
singing lirel song6 in
english. Itd Like to beach the stage when I can
write as rrlell as him.rl
lHave you any plans for
recording ?
ttt''Jell
, maybe ItlL use
the Honey I get from the
tour to get some studio
time and d,o a few things.
I t m no t sure t the fiionlent. irhat I may do is
do a few catchy one6
tha t I Ll- Se t Eie in the
charts, then I can do
vrha t I like af ter it.
i: need noney a t the lronlen t. tt
rt t least he t s honest. I
hope that he dostntt need
to resort to radio fodder
to get Fome more recogni*
tion, it r-rould be a wa ste.
Che day I-'atrik FitageraLds
Er
VenenoUs W0lt'ld-Vieg iS
uratered*down and nme"de
sa f e'? will be a sad orLe.
Although I don't agree
rsith everything he Say6 or
doee 1 I do befieve that
as lopg "r F threre is room
for sqme honesty in this
I buisnessf that relye
on
its half-truths and fleeting images for its fast
buck r then th€re is room
f or patrik Fitzgerald.
ttHhatever happetrB r I t11
never sell many rec -nrds in
rny care€fr I d,onf t expect
to, thatts not why ltm doing a 11 this. ,$o long p 6
some people listen it I s
alright. tr *I suptiose so
l"Jetrie out on the street now,
interview over, I have a
parting shot. I ask hin
ttrha t he thinks of the compo
a-risons made between him 8Johnny Ol-arke.
trThere I s no comparison. He
just r.rants to rnake people
laugh, T r*ant to melie t em
think. Itm not a stand*up
comed,ianr ard I ainf t
j oking 3 rf
will
rnonths
llhe next fer'renerf,ence
of
the
r*itness
Fitzger*Ld'
the rler,' ;;;"rt see r
- ntta 1'te wilJ-
f net an Alien the other day
he wn s r+alking dol.rn fottenham uourt Roao
Trying to seLl the bibLe
whispering his g,.,spels in riy €ar r
He told me
ttHarf this prane t ' s alien nowr fruth t :
Come down frorn ano ther 1:lanet r
arying to convert you Lot
I cos you r ve rua de ,a rness o f your 1o
t,
tr,e don t t have any unernploynient
lle don' t have any wars
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r*hatts cCIuntries?
Countries don I t exist on our planet.
t,
.5
All urerve got . s a rol; of rulers
They ain t interested in rnoney.
They I re content to go on living,
They I re content when everybody else
on the pLenetrs content.
Happy ru"i th the r'rorh tlrey do
Happy trith the amount of leisure tirne they I ve got.
Happy r cos sverybody else is happy
Ienrt th,:t good?tt
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: slcs o f the ba ckro onr boys in r'a"ul ty
Froduc ts basement l,.Iearhotr6€ o Fuck
of f ltt Ch well , so mnch for free
speech , he c ou?promises bY rubbing
his hnnds togetbert itis atrfu1 cold
d.ovln here- tkrat dos t ns t t+or]<, eithef r
The room looks like --rl abancioneC
f ilm se t , ha If declted out in P1ttsh
le,r.ther chairs and Slossy photogr;r"phs
of assorted FaultY Persons r half
& di*r clus ty jung1l of old Posters ,
Hoovers , t*" tterecl speaker cabine ts
and ess*r te d j unli.
r.row r s lraul ty run t
n-.ie1l, it I s Il-}e ga1 R,:Cords, Step
Fofr'i.:ifd I and, De*ltford F' un City. I'1iles
Uopeland cllns nost t:f it. but doesr: t t
tio
do mucho end Ine and the ethers
all of Beptf ord end bit,s of the athef s r
.Uverythins'frarn dcing the post to
record"ing sr b;:.nd cr sorilething. ft;i11
r,'or}'is pr e t ty t""e11 .
Cr"rinS;
- i'lhat h,:rve ]rou been
-i
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le
t
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r
o r.JI?. ca
rrUF 'till
recently Jtve been plrrying
drurns f cr the Lemon ni ttens from xeed ingr rlos I ttanted tc Set int* other
things , li}<e ba cking .iruople e nc tha t.
$nytiay , tha t f ell through cos they
vrere f uckin t me i: bout a bi t. I was
go ing out to lt€ac].in$ f cr rehersals
and th ey r.,7€r ' n . t e ven, turn it: f'- up J- i].i€ .
orr t nol{ I I re d c infi thing,: i'ri th ,=on e
other pecrle, like e uibing p,i:rt tuo.
It's a- sort af "oltinuation from the
f irst thill-,::. i.Je | 1I be record^ins it
erouncl christnr,::rs for releese ebcut
'u
I
eburery. f
* lfith You l','riting it?
tlYeahr I wrote it e11, but I don't
dictate to thenr ex3-ctl-y t+hr-t notes to
play or r*nything, It *"inf t that strict
T0 do that yotl have tc be a
realty,
virtucso Suitarint or 6o:r:lethingr *rd- I
.r
f
l'Ie
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.tthetus
hc;r"r
atI contribute littl.e bits'
one
st
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the
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LiI'.e
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to
say
Itd
nativest,
the
say, 'Release
J)ennis that I r.rant it to scund heavlrn
like the iungle. so he r,;ror.ks out1;f8his
part and cornes back l.;ith it, e-nd,
stick.:r-11 the good iden.s I"Ie h::-Ve t*g.eth€rr Dennis (surnsl is great; I
hirn , ' cos
think r | 11 a lr.rays rvorlt ',+i ih
rl
g
!{e 'r'.rork so 'tie 11 to f thef '
: ,nhat are YoUf soi:"Ss abaUt?
ttI don ' t know really. A t the time r
write them I have no idea wht t they ' re
go in$ to be about , l:ut in r e trospe c t
sort
they I rs about lonliness.
i
"u*
J"ike.
l{orldt
of one Han ageinst the
2L.
I suFpo$e I just f e*l th-'' t 1'J3 y t''' bout
things irofiletinsg. J I m. F. loner a$;rtsnyr t
r ha te crCIwds and tlart i eg * n et th j nfis "
A.lso r think tha t th;r t i,n the rnr in
proi-rleri in the lr'lsrld ' There I s nr:t
enough indiviCuali.tyr silr1 if r'. l*id
ge ts out o f l ine i;: some ldn Y , the
systern thing rruts hiil CCI'u,;rt r ;r I know '
He builds tt-p al.J, thie effressi'-'n,
Ehatus :+het fl i,'filRS :rj-ih ,5*cit',t;"r r"r
uh;,rtever licu l'r* nt tc c*r l-l it ' It 's
real-l-;r l".cnelF? ,'le*,11#, *r firouils nf
-r?*oFls, lilc* tl:e prini:'s s*-)'rr feeJi.,solrteri, n:rd th,rt brinEn E, l"ot of
jlrcbJ.et,:s, rhat I s l';l:,r t th*y' re,l"b*ttt.
.:,
Li.enr.ti"clJ".'f
* l,,Ier* ),rau feelin;i I ilip th" t t+h*n y*t1,
st,r.rte';.1- *:Liffirr' Ghte ?
It reahr I sul)-nr:se ,toc f felt 1il-e th-rt
al 1 thrr:u,qh rilJ'r timn at sch*cf'' I
h,r-teel "11 th.e r-;th*r }:lidsl r never fittecL
l-n 1:rlEtt the:::,1.t rlLs f nll'reys felt llft
*ut *f ttrinliso I ,qnt cr:"t *f ',eFtfrrrcl
',rhen J cnL''J-d, *theyJise If d sti1..l tre
there J-i'l:e nll- r1* r:ir'ten frc::,: nclior'L'
Ytknot,r, r cf.rt fir, inla L rr:b cn"d ntil],
aes n cla se.u: of ,;he hl ok*g f r0:'' schcol
stil-l ther€r still serving their
,r pJlrenticeehip ti, e;,r s t'' rteC str* i,rht
after rchce,-l-. f nfteded. ta fiet r'rtt cf
1 su"-po$e th* Glue he'rped me do
ti:a t.
rt the tirne the punk t'hing ';iss
it.
beinSi ignored. i:). the JJressr anrl T got
thc ider, of daing n11 nltern*"tive thing
to o over the liunlt ba nd-s . T sar"r a lL
these t.merican tilings you s*e in sl:ecial.ised. sl:oFs. Lilce f.i'R shetlts aild
Country n-nd 'lesterl:. -Li€:is thingfi r sort
of
af nei-rs bulletins to }<eep the fann
t1:*.t type of n:':-:.siC up*t'J-il-;=*ter tCcn the
nrusic prnss diCn't real-ly ci'ver it.
I just d id ;c and ae sirlfriend clid
some r:rl1 ,a frer*x riip-chinc t wori:" s" ncl I
tcotrt t ent ill;ol,'jl1 to the sho r; in 'toh*
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na"{ thought it was great nnd g,ve.
Sane vrith gigs, rre did.a free tour fop
quid to finance the next
the sar:1e rea,sons. I donrt think recordE
one. It just got bigger from there
are
bea thoulgh. I mean, most ;;r;i;-;;;
orr. Caroline Coon dor+n the l{elody
s-ensible
eni[ugh to b" able to pick
got interested aad then al1
' r+hat they waht,
lpker
see the price, and decdthe bands started getting in the
de
for
themsblvee.
ftre att a'questionpapers. The last one, issue 12,
of
what
record
a
is
worth. ''.,trat tS a
is stipposed to have sol-d 15rO0O.
record
worth?
Recently
Irve been obses*
I packed it in thea tcos ii'uas
sed
vrith
the
idea
of
doing
r*hat $crittl
getting a bit boozy and self_impo_
colitti
done.
uut
alL
th6
corners
and.
rrwe
rtant, yrknor,l
were dosn the
dispense r+ith all but the mu6ic. I thlnk
pub the other flry a[d...fr1 that
there is a pLace for alL the rest of it.
sort.of thing, like ?,igZag or
But
the occasinnaL one of them rrould be
sonething. It r d done u,hai it 'd
good alternative to it.r
a
set out to do. f wanted to move
- Having nore or 1-ees your ou.n label to
on a bit and do something else. I
play nithl have you gone into naye of
always want to do that. T just
nahi.ng the actur"L physical side of
vrant to be as creative ae I can in
records
sny cheaper?
the time 1tve got. Like f|ll go
Itl'IelL1 I thou6;ht rl:out thatl but f rve
home tonight tnd paint, no one ti,ilL
come to the conclueion that the procese
see them but thatrs not irnportant.
at
the moment is best in terms of gual*
If everybociy did things inltead o f,
ity
and cost. f think thingc t.ike fl-eki
eitting r+atching the telly all the
discs have go$ ' future, but if ;rou r.rant
time ittd be a 1ot better gener;rIIy.rr
things to be L'sting, ivhieh f do, then
Have you *irays been like it"otr
this ::p.y's the best. '{e d.id Love liee
Itl{o. the school I went to nasnrt
limp
as a free thing e,s,a- eort of rnessinteresteil in that. r wanted to be
ager
and
if they nnnterl to lierp it tl:en
a footballer. t stiLl Like football.
they
c<:u1r-1 t:.pe i.t, thlt s o,k. But
I go down palace at the noment. It
donrt lr*nt nry things to be that disnowould be nearer for me to see Milh'all
sable
a-nci insb-n1, I d{ontt -ut out
but r juet go to where the beet
euough stuff for that.rfl eanrt see why
otuff- ls being pJ.ayed. f used to go
6one rnagazines donf t ab tUt thcugh. i
to -tuLhaml and q.p.R.1 and CheLsea.
nean,
someone like Tnig:'t+g corrld do r,ne
they where glamorous io me. rhay
every issuel That things wasted, f donrt
always had players that Looked like
uant to get at tenr )-ike, ;;rhno.rr, nice
raale modelsl now they have pl=yers
geezers and all th:rt, but irh"t they sta:rd
that play l-ike rnale mode1s. I think
for is rubbish. t!
all_ that supporting one cl.ub is just
- tleve ]rou rn$ Sige lined up for the
ei11y. Fuckinr stupid idea th"lt!rt
iuture?
trl'lot resl-1y. Trve got plans for one,
-l'Jhors on the new striff?
-8d
frA felv new
'reople. Annie Wombat of
l,ike to clo i"t do'om the Y.1,'] .0..1 . or
the $issioaaries, San out of the
SOITI€':rhere. ItlS Sort of an abeUfd Soft
Transmitters, a bloke from the Lernon
of opera 'thing, r.rith a namater coning
Kittensr all sorts of different
on and a_!.1 that. rt should be real_ly
people this time. I want to lreep
good if it comes offr just a good laugh
working with different per.;ple for
reall-y- r think ha.lf , the albun r,rif I
ever, I l-ike th^a.t. Iive got a sinbe that sort of thing any'.,ey. L ike it
g1e with Dennie corniag oui in a week
carries on fror': tlife in a d"yt off
or tlto. ',
Vibin' . It lcoks I ike one nicle | 1] be
Genesis P. O*idge involved stiLl./
-Is
more lil;e th.t and the other side-r'i'tl"
rtlror I bardly eee him anymole,
he.s
be straight four r,tinute soniTs, :'ith a
al-r.rayb busy with uristLe and all his
etart
ancl a fininh. rtrn still '.+riting
pro jects.,,
i.t
nor.r eo f dt:n't lt:ror+ for ',ure.
&ow did your connections cone about?,
tr{het r*culC y"u l-i!:e to be thcught of ner
t'r,e met at this dinner p.rty! He
ItIf T had to be catergorise<l lrd rsant to
llEed
oy etuff and tre became friends, he just
be classed ;,16 a r10-er. .lJot a vrriter or,
had second annual.report out and f iist
a rriembex of this b-nd or that. sru6t a
-ened to it and tilied it, this was about vralking do-er. r had scme kiri say to me
early t77. We got together on a couple
that T didnrt do anything aayr:iore, but
of thinge which where quite interesling. uhrist,
tr.rerve done J albume, ! sin63-ee,
He l"et u6 use his studio to rehearse in
ue've been tourin6; free, lf ve been dcingi
asr.relI. lJetre just friends how though.
stuC"io r*ork uith reor:l-e and things for
-You've put out a couple of cheap
the l-abel- lilce. What inore do ya have to
recorder ?f,e there going to be any more? .do ?
ttil reakon eo. rdos there are prtople ,o1ho
A11 things consi"deredt he dosrn't have
realJ-y want a record but can,t aglona it. to do anqthing $tnf€o r . r r
rne fifty
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Piranhas, prime i;overs
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otr r gave
the unorigional fsgynesa
of ttreir name totaf- iusti*
f ici: tion , and rnoved o f f
aga in.
They I d achieved
th e ir obvi ous a ims ( looki *
ng l ike the l{eartbrea.kers ,
sr{eeting the obligatory
; swea t , sounciing l ike the
erafiorl€F etC., ancj pleaSed
the headbangers in the
pro0€8Er r eFsonally thor ,
I couldn t Bee the point.
Ttre Pirahnas are a diff_
erent }cettl-e of f ish etc,
e tc .
rhey I ve estabLished
enough so's not to have
too much to prov€ r but
af,en I t well-known enough
to be abLe to eit back
and rest in their littl,e
groovs e lhis could be
a heaL thy situa,tion to be
in, but not in their cn6eo
' Clos they H.d VB ea t ba ck.
not workload-wis€ r but
they . ve got their f orma t
and they seem to rrant to
stlck with it. rf you I ve
aeen I em once, then their
alL-important novelty
value weare off . .c ew
people would, .6ee the same
f iLn twic € . . oarrd, they I re
u6ua11y tha t predic table.
rhe snile spread,s thinner
D AF[TtsTEs TqS
r+ith marching bessr cbs€rves the fads' genuine invas_
ion of our ercr des l+ith the
s ca th i ng
r ca sm , tha t on ly
the l,ir,:hnas possess. It
m,ny be a comnent 0n societ*
ies enslavement to rni!.chines
or a :':iss*talce of thosel:rho
foLlol'r fnshions, I could,n,t
cnr€ though, f cos it r s fun*
ny ( f thinlc even nichard
J3ranson ryill- see the jol<e ).
The other nelor stuff dos r n f t
fare sc r+ell though. rrA l-ison r.iurpheytr , despi te the
rrelcone inclusion of Zoo t
on vccels, just sounds like
ye t fi. no ther ,IIa ppy farn i l i e s
ilermutation, the the ahomi*
nable rlltla.nne corfle Up for
cof f ee ?tf r rEith it , s obvioue
d,ouble entenc-l.re and references tc cafine being a
stirnulate just thror,rn in
f or good, mea sure ends up
sounding like The rlalron ltns..:i!"
ra-n through a.n ? ssortment
of structurel.ess jams with
Fenrnan wailing strings of
rrords i they ma de a song of
ttJ r ys broken my l:, string"r
pnnctu* ted '.''ri th the J-,ens
blood --Curci.)- ii:pi Iau,ih. ir nd
i so it l.ient. fi'he iden s rrere
Froi:iising l:r-r.t the mood a.nd
elrecutinn tr'-In s e:"r;harrf, sing.
I t encle r:i tJn s boring + nd
rrni??.s i:if ed s i f the1r , d
''Johnny 6,
{Tone a nd iila ;yierL
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Goodelt. Perhnps s.fiother
t ime , fe n. Ehe Scri ts
desnite Grerjns tr:,;: th rrrrsr*
atic:n thet aftern{-}oi:1 , l,"rere
*xc*ptir:nal] , ?hey Fl"s yeii.
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i gh ts n t ten:p t ing to ups ta ge
Lenny Bruc e. Irleedless to
sey, it bor*bs. t:ld rrugge*
tts like "Tensionrr &?rl,clv€
game tt etill
shine ( desr:ite
the enevitnbl l*"clt-J.ustre
cleliveries ) Er.nd help them
score yet no ther London
triumph. And ; irnportently
everyone l_e,,,:.veg 'uri th e s!fliIe. I can t help but !tro*
nder though, hon long it
toriLl be before the e;r'liles
turn into yal,,/ns next tir:re
arnouodr fhe bends fa.ns
are c;e tchinn up on them.
.n
rf
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ld
g.
gz
safe r'tith Greens nerves
end ri id only" one ir*T:ro visecl t'ruffiber, }:rit tha t
rtidnr.,t- detract frar:: the
overall effect. Greens
Vc;iCe 1','3-S still -lerfect
is repea ted , the d,arc €
beconea robotic I the once
, itfs got to be one of
',subtle innuend,oes
the rnost na tur..lly nielstart to
odic tocls :: f ound. t
sound like 3rd form blue
':'he yirnhnes have nolr
jokes. rt,seems like a
sl
ips and har:gs be tw,ren
$o t enough rna t er ia 1 f or
the,
script, the movenents are
:,.,Ounding o in tr i c,:r te
one 6great a lburii r aild one
b;r ss a nd i'orns tinny c on
so neat it seeme almost
everase orr€; but i f $ontecheoreographed. ThankfuLly thing dostnrt happen
-pe tanc e 0n the drums
sooil
l
ike he l,':i s bcrn l;i th
ly though r the band were
no one t s going to listen
phem
elightly the better for
in his headphones.
to eith€r r ;r-nd that r+ould ,A
dernon a lcohol tonlght t due
Their
set altcrr]=: tes begic.
to the uard,ens nore c ivil-- be tra
f' tr+een dubbed regga e ryt The Fa3-11 Scritti F'olitti,
ized licensing hours) and
hnns : j erking be t\.re en
Ian Fgnman lir sorneon€ r
things rlrere a little more
sec tions of haunting
_{.1.: .C.4. Tot 0rt. fr:d
spontanious. The autommelody, .itf d ge: dor..rn a
The f ire t ba nd 1o oked jrre storm under the ,.tsstway
a tic del ivery hra s blunted
,
tty,
Lighted rnrith aDgle*noi on: a Saturday nigght. They
they were almost eloppy
se lamns they sto c cl in
played for only ?-5 ninutes
for'a change, and uohnny
hum" n r'rn lJ. onerq ting the ir
waa the onLy one in unifo, but tha t mnde things
f,tu. t'hey seernd, rvi t ty a ga in , synthesis€rsr irnfortuna tely concise enough to r+ork
they sounde d l ilte I'ra f tr-rspk even better. - Very engunowhere more so than with
ancl no one seemec]. to knou
rrSpace invadersr,, ( good to
lar e lto ge ther . I ean t t
their neme, A plea"sent sc,1.1- semember mnch ebout
aee nore nevr stuf f slipped
the
mystery t}1l*t I wouJ.d
FalI t]:atrs not been saicL
-in without the usual- apol- nding
not mind investifi'.'ting again. bef of o. ihey,'re r'rorth
ogies) whichl oomplete
Ian Penmens, tlradical" thr- seeing though.
ee piece (2 guitnrs & drum
kit/ htad problems, fhey
aB the Music hall humour
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