"....It would
bring up this screen and it would be playing drum & bass
and you flip back to the number one music show in Europe and
they are playing that track Rosie Gaines 'Closer & Close'
which is just for a workout, then it's Wet Wet Wet and then
Jon Bon Jovi with 'Midnight in Chelsea'. Like he stays up later
than ten o'clock. But you know what I mean it's really embarrassing
when adverts on the hotel TV are better than TOTP."
You must be happy, about all this now?
"It's brilliant, fantastic," starts Andrew. "I
think the only danger there is, is that people in the record
company and such like set optimistic targets and you can get
carried along on their waves of optimism and you end up believing
the hype, not our own hype because we keep ourselves in check
between us."
"It's inevitable that you get drawn into the statistics
of it all," states Keith. "I'd rather have nothing
to do with that. I think music should be idealistic and I don't
give a fuck if I’m never on TV ever. No, it'd be good,
but to go on, on our own terms."
Did you have your own terms when you got the record deal?
"We're not that clued up about the game, so to speak,"
admits Andrew.
"We provide the music and that’s basically what we
do," admits Keith. "But then we try as much as we
can and I hope eventually we will."
"Nude Records came in this morning to go through some of
the stuff for the new video," explains Andrew. "There
are a lot of things that you didn't think are in the brochure
when you first signed your deal. But you’ve got to do
it, which is fair enough. It's like, good god if we moaned about
this really in a serious way then I deserve a good kicking because
we're so lucky to have a deal, with a brilliant and fantastic
record company." >> |
