15 minutes with...Mark Nevin, Morrissey's co-writer on Kill Uncle

[Uncleskinny]

Julie's blog has a very interesting interview with Mark Nevin.

http://juliehamill.tumblr.com/

P.

[Amy]

Wow. Huge missed opportunity turning down the Kill Uncle tour, but good on him for sticking to his guns. In other news...Morrissey is cripplingly socially awkward, shocker. It sounds like Mark was equally awkward around him so that collaboration was never really going to get off the ground.

[¡Viva Morrissey!]

Julie's blog has a very interesting interview with Mark Nevin.

http://juliehamill.tumblr.com/

P.

Shit interview. A waste of time.

[Uncleskinny]

Shit interview. A waste of time.

Oh do fuck off you tiresome shit. Go and do one of your own, then come back and we can all laugh at you.

[Peterb]

Oh do fuck off you tiresome shit. Go and do one of your own, then come back and we can all laugh at you.
Moderator on Fire.

[¡Viva Morrissey!]

Moderator on Fire.
:rofl:

[Death Disco]

Shit interview. A waste of time.


Oh do fuck off you tiresome shit. Go and do one of your own, then come back and we can all laugh at you.


Moderator on Fire.

Handbags at dawn, ladies. £5 on Peterb to beat the living daylights out of the other two.

[Peterb]

Handbags at dawn, ladies. £5 on Peterb to beat the living daylights out of the other two.
Good Christ DD, I'm bound to dissapoint you. I hate these slanging matches. I've just emerged from one with Urban Der Sturmer which was most unpleasant. The only way I could get him off my back was by telling him I'm Sweedish.

[I am a Ghost]

Oh do fuck off you tiresome shit. Go and do one of your own, then come back and we can all laugh at you.

:thumb:

[mcrickson]

"Kill Auntie."

[¡Viva Morrissey!]

:thumb:

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[Worm]

Very nice, Peter, thank you. I've never had much of an idea of what Mark Nevin was like.

Interesting to know there was disagreement between him and Clive Langer. Something was definitely amiss on "Kill Uncle". I also laughed when he said the band couldn't play the songs properly in concert (although, to be fair, he saw them in Dublin, which I believe was the very first show of the 1991 tour). Overall, even though Nevin is proud of his work with Morrissey, I got the sense that he pretty much hears the same problems in "Kill Uncle" as everyone else does. The irony here is that they did go in the direction he was hoping to go in-- more guitars-- it's just that they did so without him.

[Media Whore]

F*king bloggers. Just because you can ask a question doesn't mean you are a journalist.

[billybu69]

I quite enjoyed it, harmless little read, didn't find out his favourite colour but still.

Hi Ghost long time no see.

[Death Disco]

Good Christ DD, I'm bound to dissapoint you. I hate these slanging matches. I've just emerged from one with Urban Der Sturmer which was most unpleasant. The only way I could get him off my back was by telling him I'm Sweedish.

Little Ulrika is a harmless creature of little intelligence, I wouldn't worry too much about him. I have every faith you could destroy Viva Morrissey and Uncle Skinny - they haven't shown as much 'pith' round here as you have in recent times.

[billy scissors]

Little Ulrika is a harmless creature of little intelligence, I wouldn't worry too much about him. I have every faith you could destroy Viva Morrissey and Uncle Skinny - they haven't shown as much 'pith' round here as you have in recent times.

thtop thtirring it

[Maurice E]

Julie's blog has a very interesting interview with Mark Nevin.
http://juliehamill.tumblr.com/
P.

This is brilliant, Peter. Many thanks. Fascinating stuff.
One of the biggest downsides of Morrissey choosing to present himself as a solo act post-Smiths is that we hardly ever get to hear about the music that lies beneath the songs (since Morrissey is no musician - and that's according to Morrissey himself before you all jump on me!).
I'm just as interested in the music as I am in the lyrics and the singing but we rarely hear about the technical details coz unlike with the Smiths, Morrissey never does interviews with his songwriting collaborators.
It was great to hear the recent Boz interview in a guitar mag e.g. how and when he wrote the music to Paris, and about how his wife suggested the accordion should be added to Carol.
I would love to read an interview with both Morrissey and Boz together. Hear them talk about their songwriting partnership, their history, and just see how they are together - jokey, matey, awkward etc?
Mark Nevin was a really underrated songwriter. Great to hear the names he gave his compositions before handing them to Morrissey, how he effectively produced the utterly sublime 'I Know It's Gonna Happen' himself, how Moz was keen for him to join the world tour, and how his Kill Uncle compositions were effectively rearranged by Langer and Winstanley.
Thanks again for posting.

[¡Viva Morrissey!]

F*king bloggers. Just because you can ask a question doesn't mean you are a journalist.

:thumb:

[M-in-Oz]

Thanks for posting the link. I found it to be a really interesting interview.

[Death Disco]

thtop thtirring it

"D'you fuckin' want some?"

[Johnny]

Thanks Peter.Nice interview.

[King Leer]

I second all of this.
I thought it was a bit odd how Morrissey offered Jesse up to the world as his new songwriting partner when Boz and Alain had written so many fantastic tracks over the years. Aside from the photo session with Street around the time of Viva Hate it was something Morrissey had never done other than with Marr.

Anyway, the Nevin interview was very interesting. He seems like a really well-adjusted guy and I can see why he turned down the tour. Bizarre to hear Peter Hogg come up again in any context.





This is brilliant, Peter. Many thanks. Fascinating stuff.
One of the biggest downsides of Morrissey choosing to present himself as a solo act post-Smiths is that we hardly ever get to hear about the music that lies beneath the songs (since Morrissey is no musician - and that's according to Morrissey himself before you all jump on me!).
I'm just as interested in the music as I am in the lyrics and the singing but we rarely hear about the technical details coz unlike with the Smiths, Morrissey never does interviews with his songwriting collaborators.
It was great to hear the recent Boz interview in a guitar mag e.g. how and when he wrote the music to Paris, and about how his wife suggested the accordion should be added to Carol.
I would love to read an interview with both Morrissey and Boz together. Hear them talk about their songwriting partnership, their history, and just see how they are together - jokey, matey, awkward etc?
Mark Nevin was a really underrated songwriter. Great to hear the names he gave his compositions before handing them to Morrissey, how he effectively produced the utterly sublime 'I Know It's Gonna Happen' himself, how Moz was keen for him to join the world tour, and how his Kill Uncle compositions were effectively rearranged by Langer and Winstanley.
Thanks again for posting.

[joe frady]

Thank you for posting.

Am I being very dense or does the interview end abruptly with the question about the c.1991 photo in Nevin's kitchen? Where is his reply? Is there a next page?

Hello I.a.a.Ghost :highfive:

[Kewpie]

Thank you for posting.

Am I being very dense or does the interview end abruptly with the question about the c.1991 photo in Nevin's kitchen? Where is his reply? Is there a next page?



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[Anaesthesine]

Nice interview - Mark Nevin seems like a nice enough fella whose had some major musical thrills and disappointments along the way.

Morrissey is such a classic, extreme introvert; I never tire of reading accounts of how he barely manages to connect with the people he's working with. Fascinating in light of his incredible success as a collaborative songwriter.

The changes to the Kill Uncle material are also very interesting. 'Twas production killed the beast...

[Ben Budd]

Great read. I like knowing more about the music behind Morrissey. Thank you for sharing.