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Taken from "The Drumsticks' Revenge" fanzine, Issue 2, 1987. Written by 'Thunder Bug' from an address in Newport, UK. Also featured in this issue were: The WonderStuff, The Sect, Playground Records, Douglas Adams, Dawn After Dark, Feast Of Friends, Le Lu/Lu's, Bambi Slam and Whirlpool Guest House.
All spelling errors and typos are sympathetic to the original work.
I DONT CARE WHETHER THEY'RE TRENDY, UNHIP, OR WHATEVER - GBOA ARE ONE OF THE BEST BANDS I'VE SEEN AND HEARD IN AGES. I FOUND MARY HIDING UNDER A TEA-TOWEL AFTER AN EVENTFUL GIG IN BURTON, AND DECIDED TO DO A 'ONE WORD QUESTION' INTERVIEW FOR A CHANGE:
CENSORSHIP.
"I hate censorship!"
OH...IS THAT IT!?"
"Yeah, that's all there is to say. Freedom of coice."
JIM MORRISON.
"God-like figure. People take him too seriously. A nice person who gets taken far too seriously. He epitomizes what is bad about rock'n'roll. Don't follow leaders. Bob Dylan's the same, he's a wanker."
APATHY
"I don't like apathy, but I used to be apathetic. All I can say about apathy is that if I hadn't got up and started doing this, I'd probably still be an apathetic young degenerate with long hair, who used to think that I looked nice, and walk around and go to nightclubs and get pissed and make a fool of myself at the weekends. But I don't do it anymore - I make a fool out of myself every day of the week, and make a living out of being myself."
ORIGINALITY
"Nothing's that original really. People's attitudes are unoriginal though, that's all. It's attitude that you've got to change - not the process. Like tonight did you see that guy with the gun?- that was terrible. That's really unimpressive behaviour, just stupid - the bloke was a real dick."
(THERE WAS AN EVIL SECURITY-MAN WHO INSITED ON LEAPING ON ANYONE WHO SO MUCH AS TAPPED THEIR FEET, AND EITHER HALF STRANGLING OR FIRING A GUN AT THEM. FUCKING SAD,REALLY)...SO - SECURITY MEN.
"Well it wasn't necessary, the shooting there tonight...because people were just enjoying themselves and I don't mind that, but I don't like that security. Although saying that we've played in places where we've probably needed security. But that wasn't necessary, and I did say it wasn't at the time."
UFOS.
"Seen loads of them!"
WITH OR WITHOUT DRINK!?
"I've seen loads - I've seen some without drink. I've seen some when I was dead young - everybody at nmy school who was out that night saw it and this included the caretaker at the school. We were in the recy, the recreation ground, and we saw this fuckin' huge thing, and I'm not lying - I tell you it was BIG...We ran down to the bottom of the recreation centre to a road that was along the bottom of it and to where the school was. And the village I lived in, I know the school caretaker, and he was there, There was about 6 or 7 of us following these lights - it was a long way up, miles up, but it was THERE. The guy who was digging his garden, the caretaker, saw it. This IS true... Yeah I believe in it, although I've probably only seen the one really properly - but I've seen lots of lights in the sky."
TERRY WAITE.
"Where is he now? Probably wrapped up in a bin liner somewhere, poor chap, Ha Ha!
OVERWHELMING WITH SYMPATHY...
"Oh yeah, overwhelmed with sympathy for Terry Waite and his family. The guy's a dickhead - I feel no sympathy for someone who's supposed to be full of wisdom, full of the word of god, and he gets all that shit. I like the idea of spiritulism in some kind of ways, but this is stupid, blind faith.
ESCAPISM.
"Something that's weird, but you can't really escape too much because you never come back sometimes. I know lots of people who have escaped and never come back - People who take things too far and in the end loose themselves, that's escapism...Although I like people who escape properly and come back again."
SOUNDS.
"Well you know, we practically run the paper. We own sounds now. Ha Ha! Nah - they just really like us, but they like us at the NME, and MM are beginning to like us now. They're all taking us seriously, it's good...Most journalists are full of shit - if I can manipulate them then anyone else can with a bit of suss."
SYNTHESISERS.
"I like samplers, and the new stuff we do will probably have some sort of keyboard on it, with a lot of cut-ups and things... The thing is, we havent developed musically at all - we're just doing what we were doing ages ago, it's all just garage music, and now we're getting the oppertunity to listen to what we're playing. The singles were both really quick, like let's write a single y'know, it doesn't work like that..."
TELEPHONE SANITIZERS.
"Oh - that's Douglas Adams isn't it? I think it's a good book. Iain Banks is a good writer, a lot like Douglas Adams, he's really televisual in his writing style - it could easily be made into a film. I like reading books like that, true to life."
SPINAL TAP.
"Great movie."
THE AFTERLIFE.
"I don't know. I can't quite believe in it at the moment - I'm going through a spiritual void at the moment."
2000AD.
"A fine comic. Should be compulsary in all schools!"
DORIS STOKES.
"Doris, erm...I think faith in something does many things, I mean, faith can move mountains. I don't know, I'm not religious, don't talk about religion - it stinks. But if you've got faith in something a lot of things happen."
LIKE MIND OVER MATTER?
"Yeah, it's like our band really, especially what we've done with the music press and everything, because it's deeper than just the music... When they take you seriously I think it's funny - because we can't take them seriously. People take it all too seriously and it's just not worth it."
ANORAKS.
"The anoraks people! I really don't know what they're into, what they're on. I think they're so escapist what they do. Dangerous people. They're worse hippies than us, real short-hair hippies, really bad news. They hate us don't they? We might do an anorak song one day -I'll be called Mary Twee then! Anorak'n'roll!! These people...what are they going to do when the bomb drops? They can't wear anoraks then...I don't know - I can't slag them off because I don't really understand them."
..ERM...WELL..
"I can tell you what an expert is."
OH GOOD. WWHAT'S AN EXPERT?
"Ex is has been and Spurt is a drip under pressure!"
WELL. THAT'S ABOUT WHERE I RAN OUT OF IDEAS...
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