posted by davidt on Wednesday May 14 2003, @08:30AM
Designer Magazine writes:

This month marks 20 years since the Smiths released their first single "Hand In Glove" and to celebrate Digital Radio Station BBC 6 Music is broadcasting live from the Salford Lads Club on May 16th as part of a week long series of archive recordings and interviews. Designer Magazine took the time out to speak to former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce about the unique relationships that the band was based on. Mike is currently working with ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead in the band The Dogs (formerly Moondog One) and the Salford Lads Club event will see them playing semi-acoustic as they launch the band to the nation.

http://designermagazine.tripod.com

Without wanting to spill too much there's certainly a lot of interesting tales about Morrissey's friendships, relationships and how this affected the rest of the band.
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    Mike Joyce
    This month marks 20 years since the Smiths released their first single "Hand In Glove" and to celebrate Digital Radio Station BBC 6 Music is broadcasting live from the Salford Lads Club on May 16th as part of a week long series of archive recordings and interviews. Designer Magazine took the time out to speak to former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce about the unique relationship that the band was based on. Mike is currently working with ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead in the band The Dogs (formerly Moondog One) and the Salford Lads Club event will see them playing semi-acoustic as they launch the band to the nation.
    Q: We saw Andy (Rourke) last week and he's been kept busy with Badly Drawn Boy. You've been locked away in the studio for the best part of a year with your new band the Dogs. The first real chance people will have to hear you is on 6 Music so could you fill our readers in?
    A: We got this band together about a year ago and we were starting from scratch so it wasn't as if we had a set of songs and new band members had arrived. It took us until Christmas to really find what we wanted to do because when you've got 3 individuals with such strong characters like Bonehead, myself and Johnny the singer there was pushing and pulling everywhere because it's not autocratic...it's not like a Noel Gallagher situation where it's like here's the song.
    We'd got 3 really good songs together when 6 Music contacted us saying they were doing this 20th Anniversary at Salford Lads Club and suggested we came down. At first I didn't want to do it because I didn't have any emotional need to talk about something I did 20 years ago and then I thought it would be good for people to hear what I'm doing now with the Dogs. I'm just so proud of what were doing and it's so automatic you're either gonna love it or you're gonna hate it...the kind of stuff were doing I don't think it's going to grow on people...you're either gonna dig it or you don't!!!
    Q: What did you think of Hooky's recent comments about the band and the Salford Lads Club photo shoot?
    A: I don't know why he's getting his knickers in a twist, I didn't know it bothered him that much. He was talking about getting there in a cab or something and we didn't get the bus anywhere then and I still don't now. I wasn't living in Hale at the time, I was in Chorlton, so I'm not too sure he's a big Morrissey fan really judging by that.
    It was the sign I think that Morrissey was interested in and it was more the similarity between the four of us...I mean it could have said Levenshulme Lads Club...I think it was meant to be that the Smiths were a club and that was the similarity. I never think it was let's go and pretend were all Ordsall boys.
    Q: Can you remember the first time you all got together as the Smiths collectively?
    A: I'd known Johnny anyway and seen him around town working in X Clothes. I remember the first time I met Morrissey and that was when we were in the rehearsal room. A mutual friend of mine and Johnny's, a lad called Pete Hope had told me that the guys in X Clothes was looking for a drummer and do I fancy going down to Spirit Studios...and that was the time Dale was playing bass. Morrissey was just walking up and down the room with a very long grey coat on and he said hardly anything. And the first time we played with Andy I think we did "Handsome Devil", "What Difference Does It Make?" and "Miserable Lie".
    Q: Looking from the outside it really did seem like you, Andy and Johnny and then Morrissey completely separate. Was it really as clear cut and defined as that?
    A: Yeah, well I think Johnny was kind of a mediator and obviously a close confident of Morrissey's, he was the only one that Morrissey had really within the group. Johnny would have meetings and discuss the direction and aspects of the band with Morrissey and we'd discuss our own side of it.
    We had a relationship where we didn't socialize a lot, but that was fine. Just becau
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    • Thanks Mud by paulybob (Score:1) Friday May 16 2003, @06:32AM
  • Mike and Andy feel more betrayed by Johnny than they do by Morrissey. Odd.

    Joe Moss said the same thing in the Rogan bio - that he didn't expect much of Morrissey, but he really expected Johnny to pay him and felt betrayed. (He had to wait until the Smiths split up before Johnny paid him back for expenses he incurred as their manager in the early days.)
    Gabriella -- Wednesday May 14 2003, @10:50AM (#61205)
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  • I fully agree.
    Eric Hartman -- Thursday May 15 2003, @02:02AM (#61359)
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