Worm
Taste the diffidence
My apologies if someone has already posted this, but over at The Quietus there's an interview with Johnny Marr and Gary and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs. It's an excellent interview with some fun remarks about Los Angeles. Though he's quick to say he's not, is Johnny really taking a shot at Morrissey here?
At the end Marr serves up an immortal turn of phrase:
If that isn't the title of their next posthumous live album release I'll be sorely disappointed.
I've resisted being [in L.A.] so many times, it's been on the cards and I've fought it tooth and nail. There were some ideas about The Smiths moving there in the mid-80s, I went over and I wasn't having it. I knew it would be as Gary described, I didn't think there'd be any good ideas there. I've had a couple of friends there sometimes, but I never felt I could write anything half decent there. I wrote one song there years ago, but that was it.
At the end Marr serves up an immortal turn of phrase:
On laddism:
Gary Jarman: ... The Smiths had it, and they were so anti-laddism. You had a hardcore lad fanbase.
J Marr: Yeah we did, because we got in the charts. But it can be an opportunity. Because that only happens because the band rock like f***. If a band play in a wet style, and very fey, those guys won't come back. With The Smiths, for all our ideas of Oscar Wilde and afternoon tea, we could do that, we knew that we really took care of business. No matter whether you're an artist, a creative intellectual, if you want to see a rock band you've got to rock like f***, and that isn't being rockist.
The Smiths rock like f***! Gary Jarman: ... The Smiths had it, and they were so anti-laddism. You had a hardcore lad fanbase.
J Marr: Yeah we did, because we got in the charts. But it can be an opportunity. Because that only happens because the band rock like f***. If a band play in a wet style, and very fey, those guys won't come back. With The Smiths, for all our ideas of Oscar Wilde and afternoon tea, we could do that, we knew that we really took care of business. No matter whether you're an artist, a creative intellectual, if you want to see a rock band you've got to rock like f***, and that isn't being rockist.
If that isn't the title of their next posthumous live album release I'll be sorely disappointed.