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Manchester Roadhouse
12 February 1998
The dressing room is just as scabby and tiny as I remember it and
there's even the same table with the same food piled on it. Stuart
sits himself onto the sofa next to Dominic and invites one of us
to squodge in next to them. This I gladly do, leaving Carl with
the stool. All the members of mogwai are in the room as well as
Aerial M, various members of 'the technical staff' and Pilotcan
for some strange reason. All of them get involved in the discussion
at some point but mostly it's Stuart and Dominic we interview. During
the interview, mogwai eat their tea, so for the most part I'm being
elbowed in the ribs by Stuart. He also has this rather amusing habit
of bashing me on the knee whenever he thinks that, not just that
I'm not listening to him, but that I'm not looking at him!
marceline: Where will I put the taperecorder?
stuart: Here (holds it on his lap).
m: But what if you want to gesture? Then it'll fall off.
stuart: Are you saying I gesture?
m: Aye.
stuart: Well, here then (holds taperecorder inbetween knees).
Stuart tries to look at my questions
m: They're not written as questions anyway - you wouldn't be able
to know what I was going to ask.
stuart: In a code? Written in a code? That old fanzine trick..!
Tony from Aerial M arrives with a bag of records and half the
room demands to see his purchases.
tony: I got two Joy Division things.
stuart: wahey!!! What ones?
Tony removes records from bag and reveals 'Closer' and 'Still'.
stuart: You couldn't have bought two better records, Tony.
dominic: Right, sorry, I believe you're trying to start an interview
or something.
stuart: Sorry!
m: Erm, okay, what superpowers would you like?
stuart: I'd like to be able to fly or something.
dominic: I'd like to fly. Or I'd love to be invisible.
stuart: Get the doughnuts, get the doughnuts in.
dominic: Who wants a doughnut?
m: Do you ask for doughnuts or do you just get them?
dominic: They're just here.
m: Do you ask for stuff on your rider?
stuart: Too right we do.
m: What?
stuart: 72 cans of beer, two bottles of red wine, a bottle of whisky.
Tequila.
dominic: Are you talking about our rider?
stuart: Yeah.
dominic: Picture of Princess Leia.
stuart: A colour photo of Princess Leia.
dominic: We've only had two so far in the entire tour though.
stuart: Three.
dominic: Well one was a drawing though.
stuart: No, we had the picture of her with the beach ball, the picture
with the Ewoks...
voice: I want to see the beach ball one.
dominic: Oh, did we actually get that? I thought we bought that.
stuart: No, we got that on the rider. It's in the van. It's really
nice.
dominic: Tony, Cassie? Do you want a doughnut?
tony: (surprised) yes.
stuart: So that's what we ask for on the rider.
carl: What part would you like to play in the
new Star Wars film?
stuart: One that means I get to go off with that girl.
dominic: Ohhh, Natalie Portman.
stuart: Yeah.
dominic: She's Princess Leia's mum. (much clattering) Is
John being an arse?
voice: Yes! He is!
dominic: Skelp him across the head, man.
voice: I did.
stuart: So, basically, Princess Leia's dad...so I get to conceive
Princess Leia. It means when she's born I can't go out with her
though!
m: And then you're going to get blown up, aren't you?
stuart: Aye.
dominic: It means you're gonna die.
m: What's your favourite superstition?
stuart: I do actually have a superstition. Quite a lot of superstitions
actually - really stupid ones.
dominic: What was the question, sorry?
stuart: What's our favourite superstition. Just like, sometimes
if I see a street and it's not very long and I'll think, 'oh,
we'll play a good gig tonight if I hold my breath while I walk
up this street', and I'll end up 3/4 of the way up the street...like,
blue, running, just like there's no way I'm gonna not do
what I've set myself up to do.
m: You'd rather die?
stuart: Yeah...just stupid. Do you have a superstition, Dominic?
dominic: I've got hundreds but none of them...
stuart: Taking your shoes off?
dominic: It's not a superstition - it's just something I like
doing. I can't really think of any offhand that I could mention.
stuart: Last night there was a point in one of the songs and I
was like, I realised I was standing on one foot and I thought,
'I'm not gonna put my other foot on the ground until the loud
bit's over'. Did you see that? In 'Ex-Cowboy'? It was really hard
after a while - I had a really sore leg and stuff.
c: Who's your ideal valentine?
stuart/dominic: Princess Leia.
m: I think we could have guessed that.
stuart: Princess Leia/my girlfriend.
dominic: I've got too many, man. Alicia Silverstone. I thought
of someone else the other day.
discussion of various people
stuart: Cassie from Aerial M (she's standing beside us and
laughs).
stuart: (to me) It's a good doughnut, isn't it?
[Whether this was a reference to the fact that I had dropped
sugar all over myself or just a polite question I can't say.]
m: It's not the best doughnut I've ever had.
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