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					JOHN MAYBURY M.A.X.
			An exerciseis myth-making is going on.  Ever since the demise of the club Taboo,  Leigh Bowery´s playground of lunacy,  and  the somewhat sadder demise of artistic and Taboo habitué Trojan,  people have been sanctifying the whole affair.  The latest to enshire to episode is Kevin Mooney,  one-time member of  ´Adam and The Ants´,  now leading light behind the group M.A.X. MAX consist of Kevin,  videomaker John Maybury,  who provides the visual input,  and Kevin´s girlfriend Leslie Winer,  who contributes voiice-overs of her tense American short stories.  All three of them actually shared a flat energetically rocky single called Little Ghost - a song, incidentalyy, which Boy George covered on his LP Sold.  The single is a prelude to an album which will emerge soon called ´A Thousand And One Nights.´ ´It´ not exactly about Taboo´,  explain the whisperigly reticent Kevin Mooney,  who´s wearing denim jacket emblazoned with the word ´Trojan´, but it was written in that haze and in that madness - everyone was getting hurt.  No-one was really in control.  Then in the space of three or four months,  everything was so fucking different.  This year has been calmer ? And it´ been during the calm of this year that Kevin got around to recording the songs - aided by , among others,  Helen Terry and Marco Pirroni,  who produced all the music.  So does Kevin mind if the whole thing is perceived as another attempt to mythologise allthe Taboo Trojan malarkey ? ´No,  I´m glad about it,  because I´d like people to look at Trojan´s paintings, because they´re fucking lovely.  They´re really beautiful.´                                                                                                                                         William Shaw - Blitz Mag - 1988 JOHN MAYBURY MENU