| SL: |
Where are you, right now? |
| PD: |
Hi Steve, how're you doing? I'm in Aberystwyth. |
| SL: |
Aberystwyth - on tour? |
| PD: |
Yeah, on tour, yeah. |
| SL: |
How's it been so far, when did you start? |
| PD: |
God, must have been going for about 10 days now. We've done a couple
of warm-up shows in Northern Ireland and er, come basck to England and
we've just been playing, well, right across the country really. |
| SL: |
What was Ipswich like, 'cos that was on Saturday? |
| PD: |
Er, it was really good, in the er, Corn Exchange. We all had massive
hangovers from the night before at Folkstone, 'cos Vic Reeves joined us
on stage for an encore of Taxloss. |
| SL: |
No! How did this come about? Did he just say he wanted to go to the
gig? He couldn't have said I was just passing. |
| PD: |
Yeah we went up to see shooting stars in the hammersmith apollo and
we sort of knew him from there really and he came down to the gig and he
was watching from the sides and I don't think he could control himself
at the end and he bombed it on with a bottle of champagne and sung his
own version of taxloss that sort of involved singing 'whisky' and 'lager'
and 'champagne' about 500 times. *laughs* |
| SL: |
Did you know he was going to do it? |
| PD: |
No, he just ran on, but it was good. |
| SL: |
Do you have to learn to pace yourself on tour? Any tips you can give
us? Obviously we're going out on our own tour... |
| PD: |
(what's my best tip..) Don't get up before 2 in the afternoon, |
| SL: |
Yeah, |
| PD: |
errr....drink loads of honey and lemon, eat tomato soup with crusty
rolls and that's about it really. |
| SL: |
Excellent. |
| PD: |
That's all I do. |
| SL: |
Ok |
| PD: |
and sleep right until 10 past 9 and wake up and dive on stage. |
| SL: |
Have you ever got to the stage where you're losing your voice or anything
on tour, what's the worst thing that's happened? |
| PD: |
yeah, really badly. Some of the new song we're doing 'cos we've never
done them before, I didn't realize how much I have to push me voice on
them really, |
| SL: |
Right. |
| PD: |
So I think I'm sounding a bit croaky now, though I usually load me
throat up with loads of glycerin, it sort of counts it. I got that little
tip off Tim Burgess when we toured with the Charlatans ages ago. |
| SL: |
Hmm? |
| PD: |
But I dunno what... if you set a match to me throat it'd probably explode. |
| SL: |
Someone should write a book, sort of 'Tips for bands on tour' |
| PD: |
'How to survive on the road.' |
| SL: |
Who's the most well and most healthy at this point and who's the least
well out of Mansun? |
| PD: |
Now, Andie's definitely the least healthy of us. I mean, that's just
a rule of thumb really. He's not very healthy at all. And Chad's the healthiest. |
| SL: |
And Chad's the healthiest? |
| PD: |
and he has been for a while - down the gym every morning and carrot
juice... |
| SL: |
Carrot juice?! |
| PD: |
Yeah. He's been on this mad fitness regime since he gave up drinking. |
| SL: |
What's the rest of the year hold for you then - so you finish off this
tour, and then what happens next? |
| PD: |
yeah, we're finishing off this tour next week and the first ep will
probably be out end of may, beginning of june time, and then we've got
our new album which is called 'Six', that'll be out at the end of the summer. |
| SL: |
Six? |
| PD: |
yeah. |
| SL: |
why Six? |
| PD: |
It's a book that Chad had, an A A Milne book, which is like an old
book of children's poetry. It was A A Milne's first sort of writings about
Winnie the Pooh and Chad's been really interested in that 'cos he's really
into Brian Jones, and Brian Jones is really into Winnie The Pooh and all
that sort of overtones and philosophical connoitations and that's how he
got interested in all that. |
| SL: |
Does it almost, err, the bus on tour Chad's bit - does that look
like one of these mobile libraries? |
| PD: |
Yeah it does yeah. It's piled up with all these books about Freud and
Daoism, Jean Paul Sartray (sic) and all sorts of mad things. He's like
a mad professor. And then the rest of the place is just James Bond videos. |
| SL: |
*laughs* That's the chemistry that makes Mansun work though. |
| PD: |
I think it must be, yeah. Or not work. |
| SL: |
So any other chance of seeing you? Are you going to go back on the
road or do some festivals and things? |
| PD: |
Yeah, I think we're going to be doing some fezzies, yeah. |
| SL: |
Go on, say that again - fezzies? |
| PD: |
Fezzies, yeah. {mumbled}(it's a northern expression) |
| SL: |
Well good luck with tonights gig and for the rest of the tour. And
when you've got the album finished come in and play some and have a chat. |
| PD: |
Alright, thanks. |
| SL: |
Alright |
| PD: |
Take it easy mate. |
| SL: |
Paul, thankyou very much |
| PD: |
See you later. |