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An exercise in myth-making is going on. Ever since the demise of the club Taboo, Leigh Bowery's playground of lunacy, and the some what sadder demise of artistic and Taboo habitué Trojan, people have been sanctifying the whole affair. The latest to enshrine the episode is Kevin Mooney, one-time member of Adan And The Ants, now leading light behing the group.
Max consisit of Kevin, video maker John Maybury, who provides the visual imput and Kevin's girlfriend Leslie Weiner, who contributes voice-overs of her terse American short stories. All three of them actually shared a flat with Trojan shortly before he overdosed. Together Max have put out and energically rocky single called Little Ghost - a song, incidentally, which Boy George on his LP Sold. The single is a prelude to an album which will emerge soon called "A Thousand And One Nights".
"Its not exactly about Taboo", explains the shisperingly reticent Kevin Mooney, who's wearing a denim jacket emblazoned with the word "Trojan", "But it was written in that haze and in that madness. last year was a big explosion of people and madness - everyone was getting hurt. No-one was really in control. Then in the space of three of four months, everything was so fucking different. This year has been calmer."
And it's been during the calm of this year that Kevin got around to recording the songs - aided by, among others, Helen Terry and Marco Pironi, who produced all the music. So does Kevin mind if the whole thing is perceived as another attempt to mythologise all the Taboo Trojan malarkey ?
"No, Im glad about it, because I'd like people to look at Trojan's paintings, because they're fucking lovley. They're really beautiful."
Blitz - 1987
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