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davidt
on Thursday December 09 2004, @09:00AM
Lou Smorrels writes:
A new Playlouder article suggests there was some kind of loose plan for Martin Rossiter and Morrissey to do a duet at the recent Meltdown. Gene - Sleep Well Tonight, Playlouder The relevant extract being: People often talk about the Smiths, probably because of the way Martin sings. Were there other influences you wished people would take more notice of? The most influential band on the music initially was the Faces. If you listen to Debris / For The Dead you'll understand. We all came from different musical backgrounds. Me: punk-indie, Steve: Stones and Hendrix, Kev: Northern Soul and the Faces, Martin: the Smiths and gay disco hymns. Did Martin and Moz do that duet at the Royal Festival Hall Meltdown Festival that you told me about a while ago in the end? No. Pity. Think they were gonna do 'Asleep' by the Smiths.
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Support at Earls Court? (Score:0)
That's largely thanks to me keeping it alive in the, frankly, insane hope that it may happen.
Gene were very special to me & I'll miss them.
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Gene RIP (Score:0)
This band were dull, even by Britpop standards!
There debut album was patchy at best...with only Olympian hinting at any potential, although frankly Suede were doing those "quiet then loud then quiet again" ballads long before Tossitter ever thought of them.
The second album was more glossy than a Michael Mann thriller and was filled with every cliche possible...in order to generate interest the bands PR department circulated news stories about Martins "terrible" depression. For those "in the know" Rossitter has never had clinical depression, indeed the only mental health problem he could reasonably lay claim to is megalomania...anyone who has ever met him will testify to that.
The third album "Revelations" was worse than anyone could have imagined. It makes "Maladjusted" look like a sonic masterpiece! It's one saving grace was the, admittedly, brilliant "You'll Never Walk Again". Everything else on it was garbage...especially the hideous come-back single "As Good As It Gets" (a song so awful that it was the theme tune for Davina McCalls "sitcom" "Sams Place")
The, thankfully, final album "libertine" was again overproduced and undernourished lyrically and musically. It was, in essence, an excuse for Rossitter to put forward his side of the story concerning his messy break up from his wife. Dressing up his infidelity as "love" in at least two of the tracks. But the lowest point of this already subterranean career has to be "Somewhere in the World"...a song so trite that it makes the Cheeky Girls read like Arthur Miller.
I for one am delighted that they are gone.
Morrisseys continued support is mystifying and can only be explained by his narcissistic tendencies...he must really enjoy Rossitters "impression".
Please don't let them be the support act...it may revive a corpse that is already beginning to reek.
gene (Score:1)
their last gig is at the astoria.
wot a great band.
and a fistful of great albums.
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I am (Score:1)
They are betetr than a lot of the indie bands doing the rounds now.
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