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Martin Rossiter (Gene) on meeting Morrissey

posted by davidt on Wednesday July 26 2000, @09:15AM

Andy writes:

I found this on the official album site of Gene:

Martin - on meeting your idol the being too pissed to remember... Radio 1 Interview

Rozzer Meets Mozzer

Radio 1 Newsbeat speaks to Martin on Meeting his Idol...14th July

Martin: "I'm still quite good friends with Alain Whyte who is a-hem (coughs)'s guitarist. He lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Blossom, he rang me up and said: "Hi, I'd really love to see you mate" and he brought him with him. He was large, actually, quite a big feller, that really surprised me. A bit like Tony Blair, he's really big, that surprised me when I met him. He was huge. Huge!! It really was quite exciting, I mean I bought his records, and it's always lovely to meet people who when you're 14 you'd listen to their records. And he was quite shy and I was quite shy, and beer was drunk... and that was about it. And we talked about... well I don't know what we talked about because I was pissed."

Related link: "More Morrissey at Gene" (June 13, 2000)

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What's this? (Score:1)

I may be wrong, but by the sounds of it, it doesn't really seem like Martin is a big fan of Morrissey nowadays. It seems as if he is trying to play down the role Morrissey played in his life. Like, "yeah, some guy I used to listen to when I was 14 or so came to see ME perform live. His name I really can't remember since like I said already I only really listened to him when I was fourteen and not since. His name, what's his name, I just can' remember but I know it was him except he looked bigger."
Well, no matter I still think Gene is a pretty cool band.

Golden Lights -- Wednesday July 26 2000, @06:20PM (#1145)
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Morrisseyish (Score:1)

I simply think that Martin is quite the opposite and is probably the hugest fan of Morrissey.

In saying that. I simply think Martin approached the question as Morrissey would of his own idols. Its just a simple case of Martin acting to much like Morrissey. Which is quite a compliment.

"Oh i'm sick to death of taking about them"
(i believe Morrissey said something of this nature when appoarched about his idols)

Moz cowboy -- Wednesday July 26 2000, @08:07PM (#1151)
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Re:Morrisseyish by nikos (Score:1) Thursday July 27 2000, @07:37AM

Fighting Fit and Able (Score:1)

I mean, obviously Martin is very influenced by Morrissey's work, he doesn't actually even need to say it, let alone gush about it.

Poppycockatoo -- Thursday July 27 2000, @07:43AM (#1162)
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