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T T"riE INTERVIE!'T The Rezillos played their first· gig-- on ~ovembel'· 5th last year.Their 2nd single released on· November 5th this year(that' s not true} is(my baby does)Good Sculptures/Flying Saucer Attack.At the time they did not know whether it would be on Sensible or not~!~ 1. Eugene:We' re going down to London tomorrow to discuss contracts.Rave you got a fag for ''lilli 3.m? Have the big companies shown much interest? "Yeah,Decca m3.ybe, "said Luke,who reminds me of David Hamilton{ sorry}. Fay:Shudup,don't say that". Already I was getting short of questions. -~hat d' you thin k of premarit3.l sex? Luke:Don't knvw anything about First ''Torld War 'planes (funny}. ·•rha t are your main influences "None in particular.Just 60s beat groups,all that stuffn "and Dan Dare ''- 11 Yeah ,Dan Dare of course 11 • Any plans for ~n album? mve should start recording it in the next few months." ''lha t new wave groups do you like? Luke:I like the Clash,but they don't. '.'lilliam: I do. So,2 for the Clash. Fay: I like Blondie,right? "Then there's the Ramones,
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spiration?-"route 66". Next,"I'm a little dinosaur''. It t ·s all a pout how no~pne wa-nts ·a ,little . '. dinosaur any moxe,so he ' is f .oing to go Tli:Way~ Jon:.:tth3.n gets down on his knees and slowly cr3wls away ..·Tme Modern Lovers sing "Come b~ck · little dinosaur·· Jona than pops up fr_...rn, behind an smp. Cheersr B.e· crc.w1s bs.ck to the f1·ont.To any ~ody reading this it might seem pathetic,but . ~fte r nearly an hour of Richman ch3risma it just seemed to be one step · further along the Richr~~n ro~d of childlike j~nocence(mental defi<. :_enc r for the cynics ) " 'I le next 2, "r.·1y love 's just a little flower" · nr~ Kookenhockin" (?) 1e~e performed in public fur the first time. ·r here w::.:.s 11HOs}-i t~l 11 ,then "E.i Dec.r", "I8r:1 imp or tan t", •l J must have·known you i n some ancien~ long ago", a reprise of "Ice C:=eam Man" ,with 3 endings this time.The first encore was one of those J :. .;Jes LC..st.things,nBarbamb::I"or so~ething,plus a 10.::.linu te 1'rto:. . C:ru..'1.ner 11 • TI'le , next encore was "I'm a ~ li ttie aeroplane"( eowm, J
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LOVJe f:::tnS who would buy it.Still,h.e.'s lucky to be fashiomble.Ha1fway · · through Larry YLllis took lead v,ocals for some of his songs-he · did the single"Police Car",and 11on Parole", ':lmong others.The.re was no obvious difference betweeen his and Nick's songs ,I thL1k you could say they were more rock than pop,though.~fter a very short · breakh·; hy can'y the roadies do that every gig? )..the ~.'!reckless E.;ic band were next ~n.with the lovely Den1se Roudette on bass,Ian ~ury on drums,and probably some other people as well, you get a bit confused cos the faces playing the instruments change as fast as the Clash used to changg ·~rummers I think Wreckless Erics single was a fafr ly typical song of his per haps slightly more ' memorable than the rest but they've all got a similar rhythm, the main distinguishing f ·ea ture being th-2 xmni::xgruff vocals,which $re a bit funny at first,coming from such an apparently · -
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