Quotes
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Mark Radcliffe of BBC Radio One loved it and started playing it on his night-time show. The song was so popular that it migrated to daytime and then a bidding war started with the majors.
It's the total contempt majors have for their artists that I find amazing. I had a report that some of my music was being used to advertise cigarettes in South America so I contacted MCA/Universal to get it stopped. They didn't even bother to email me back, that's how little they care.
It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.
It's basic freedom of speech.
It's 11pm, I'm sitting tapping on my laptop and watching X-Files. It's not the same without David Anchovy.
It should be in normal shops. Failing that, I'm sure one of the Amazon webshops will have it, if you try the different countries.
I'm not saying little kids have bad taste, they don't. In fact, they've got the same melodic tastes I have: simple, snappy pop is what rules. But what pre-teens haven't got is any real understanding or experience of adult emotion.
I'm not a huge fan of the music but at least the scenes still believe in cooperation and independence. "Indie" nowadays was been castrated, reduced to being a marketing term that means 'major label white guitar band who feign misery and are aimed at students.'
I'm currently working on songs for my fourth album. It's a bit hectic cos I'm in a rental house so the studio situation isn't ideal, plus I'm trying to get Bzangy Groink up and running again so that takes up a lot of my time. Too much stuff to do too little time!
I'd like to release a new album. I'd also like to find a female backing vocalist but so far I've had no luck at all .
I'd like to change the world!
I'd contacted Parasol and asked them if they could run with it but I don't think they understood how big it was so I signed to EMI. It was a difficult decision but I knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get my music out to millions of people.
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
I was signed in December '96. By February '97 I was sick of them. I'd just got a Playstation and a copy of Die Hard Trilogy (with the gun). I used to pretend the airport was EMI HQ, go inside and shoot the crap out of everyone.
I was always suspicious of majors but that was based on prejudice, I had no solid experience to back that up with.
I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
I remember being pleased cos it hurt to finish the lyrics, they were too close and painful to me. Which I take as a sign that I've done my job properly.
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.