Posts by Scott Common
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I've got a couple of flying nun moments which would fit the bill I reckon - but the first one from my memory is probably the best.
At the time I would have been 18 or 19 (so over a decade ago) and had got myself hooked up with a short lived music magazine which some friends had started up. Already being a bit of a Nun fanboy at the time I was blown away when our editor managed to get me a time to interview Shayne!!
When we bolled on up to the venue (getting there was another story for another time) we were greeted by a smiling Shayne who suggested we pop outside to do the interview. Not being professionals I'd not organised much in the way of set questions for the interview, but had my trusty tape recorder to hand.
Shayne proved to be very nice, and he sat in the parking lot with us for over 2 hours talking about stuff - despite my sometimes less than diplomatic questions (which had my editor holding her head in her hands and imagining that we'd never get another interview in our lives) - some examples.
- I couldn't help noticing Shayne, that as you've moved on from the wash of Melt to a more agressive style of tracks, that your on stage sneer seems to have increased [cue my editor shaking her head frantically at me as I ask this] - is this intentional?
- Do you get sick of real reporters asking you all the same questions ? Have you ever just wanted to string them along and feed them some bullshit to see how gulliable they are?
[this provoked much laughter from Mr Carter and a sigh of relief from my editor].- I haven't seen you guys play "Such A Daze" live before, why? The answer was a quizical look and Shayne going, actually the new guy doesn't know it, but it's mostly D and G so we could teach him. They then included it in the set list for the night!
- The track "Done" has some stong links to hip-hop, we're not going to see the 'Fits go all urban and stylish are we?
[quickly followed up by me trying to scrabble and insinuate that the 'Fits were already stylish and that it's a cool track!]There were many other somewhat embarrassing questions that my mind has purged - but Shayne was so damned nice about the entire thing! Needless to say the gig that evening was brilliant, and soon after they played their (at the time) last show at the BDO.
Within a year of doing this interview I was playing guitar (I use the term "playing" quite fluidly considering my skill at the time) in a band and have been playing in bands ever since.
I've had plenty of interactions with other Nun bands, I followed JPSE round the country on tour (which creeped them out to start with), spent a fair while drinking and doing Nos with Dave Mitchell before a Chug gig, and have almost been run over by Chris Matthews!
The Nun have a lot to answer for in my life :-0
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A number of years ago I was flatting with some young'in's (ie just turned 20) and this was when Prime was replaying Blakes 7 everynight. Myself and my flat mate FORCED him to be home on time and watch the entire show from beginning to end. He was a bit bemused to start with but by half way through we no longer needed to prompt him. Somethings never loose their class!
And I certainly agree with the Tomorrow People and UFO calls - were required watching for me when I was a youngster!
Other fond favorites were the childrens TV adaption of Maurice Gees "Under The Mountain" (which I reread recently) - gave me nightmares as a kid but I just couldn't stay away from it.