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Publication unknown, 1990. By Claire Isaac
It's called ICON, it's pretty bloomin' brilliant and its a lot like the songs they perform on THE BIG GIG - Rude, clever, and very, very funny. Sort of like the Doug Anthony Allstars themselves. And now they're here to tell a stunned Claire Isaac...
WHY THEY'VE MADE AN ALBUM
Tim: We've been making it for about two and a half years. When we first started recording it, we were nobodies and we didn't envisage and of this happening. Now that it has happened we thought we may aswell release it because there's nothing else to do with it and it cost us every penny we had to make.
WHO'S GOING TO BUY THEIR ALBUM
Tim: Mainly pensioners, because they are alot more hardened than young people. Young people are often surprised by what we do, while older people aren't offended by us at all, and they can see the ideas behind what we are doing. Old people can see the cloud behind the lightening, if you know what I'm talking about.
WHERE THEY GET THEIR INSPIRATION FROM
Paul: Benny Hill!
Richard: God.
Tim: Drinking! The three big ones: God, drinking and Benny Hill... and not necessarily in that order.
HOW LONG IT TAKES THEM TO WRITE A SONG
Paul: Four and a half minutes, normally.
Tim: It usually doesn't take very long at all, there's never a shortage of ideas. If you run out of jokes about Elvis, just start on Marilyn Munroe.
THEY GET ALOT OF HATE MAIL
Tim: We get petitions, baby! From everybody, every religious group in the country. One thing we've never been is boring. We've been offensive and nasty but not boring. Nor have we ever been artists - we're starting now.
THEY DON'T HAVE GROUPIES
Tim: I think they find us a bit repellent! We stink a bit.
Richard: Our costumes have never been washed and we've had them for two years.
WHEN TIM STOOD FOR PARLIMENT, ANDREW PEACOCK RANG HIM
Tim: They asked me what I was doing, and I told them I was running for the seat of Kooyong. I was very vague. I said I was going to be the cog in his downfall, and look where he is now! ...Where is Andrew Peacock?
Richard: He's in the political wilderness - but then so are you!
Paul: As long as you don't run into each other.
IF THEY BECAME HUGE POP STARS, THEY WOULDN'T LIKE MANY OF THEIR CHART BEDFELLOWS
Tim: Bobby Brown? Who's that?
Paul: New Kids On The Block? They're f---ed!
Tim: Hang on, what do you mean "bedfellows"? Do you mean our album is anything to do with they have done? Are you comparing us to them?? I think they're all s---!
THEY HAD A RUN-IN WITH THE COPS
Tim: The police once arrested Paul and I outside a venue. We were actually booked and charged and then released. We had come out in the middle of a show with these big sticks and had a mock fight outside.
Paul: We were going through these bins and getting things out.
Tim: Two police came up and arrested us, and Richard was stuck on stage doing his material about his mother which he always does if there's trouble.
Richard: They loved it! It was on the evening news, which was quite funny!
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN TV SHOW IN ENGLAND
Tim: It's called BAM, and they may be playing it in Australia. The three of us are assassins and every week we kill different people. We had one where we killed the Pope - but we had to change it because it was in bad taste.
THEY CAN DESCRIBE EACH OTHER IN ONE WORD
Tim: Richard is a very dark person. Paul is very brooding.
Richard: I'd say Tim is brooding and Paul's dark.
Paul: Tim's dark and Richard is brooding.
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