hi, I never write but some might remember me from those early picnics....ahhhh those were the days. I have translated this interview for someone else so I thought I might just as well send it to you as a response to the selling out debate. The interview also had a nice picture of mr jackson and his (?) drawings of the other band members, and featured in the cultural supplement of one of Norway’s biggest newspapers. I guess Stevie would have made the cover if Motorhead hadn't released a new album as well and a lovely picture of Lemmy is on the cover. Urgh! Please overlook the spelling and basically the language,-) It’s not true that B&S play with their backs to the audience, nor that they are so bloody intellectual, nor that they never do interviews, here is one for example; SHYNESS AND HONESTY “I am going to be completely honest with you. I am only doing this interview because I like flying. I am also able to go places I’ve never been before. Saying yes to doing this interview with you, not that I mind, gave me the opportunity to fly to Norway and explore Oslo. After this interview I’m going out in the city with my girlfriend.” B&S’ guitarist SJ is sitting with his legs femininely crossed in a darkly lit room at a record company on Karl Johan. He’s got pale Scottish complexion and black clothes. He has let us interview him and that is supposed to be a rarity, we are supposed to be grateful. They sure are weird these Scots, they rarely play gigs and when they do they play with their backs to the audience, and the singer Stuart doesn’t talk to anyone and they are all really well-read and intellectual and they refuse to be on telly. “No no no, nothing of this is true” Stevie carefully shakes his head. He blushes. Excuses himself. He doesn’t mind journalists. It’s just that they write so many things that aren’t true. “Firstly we do not play with our backs to the audience. Its not like we jump around or anything but we do not play with our backs turned! When it comes to this thing about intelligence I am definitely not an intellectual. I did go to college for a while, but that’s a long time ago. Stuart is maybe the only one who went, I’m not sure. That’s one in seven, which doesn’t exactly make B&S an intellectual band. And when the British press wrote that we didn’t want to perform on the Top of the Pops then…….” Pause -Then? “Then they were completely wrong. We would have loved to be on TOTP! I can’t understand where they got that from. “The band who refused to play on TOTP” it said. And with those headlines of course no one ever asks us to do TV. WE WANT TO BE ON TV! We want our music to get into the charts, that’s our goal. And then I read in a mag that our new single “Legal man” is our first attempt at being mainstream. What nonsense!” -Why? “Why!” Pause. “What is it people think we are doing? Do people really think that we make music that we only want a few to like? That we ask our record company to withdraw all our records when we have passed 4000 sold? I can’t understand that people are disappointed when we say that we want to make hits.” -How does these myths come about if nothing of it is true? “I don’t know, we don’t set out to make myths. We don’t play many gigs and we don’t give many interviews. That’s just the way we are.” The Scots have made their 4th album “fold your hands….”and it sounds like their former albums. Minimalistic, vulnerable and acoustic. “We haven’t changed,» says Stevie. There are quite a few expectations from your audience, like here in Norway for example. «Why? Are we big here?” -You were no 7 in the album charts with your last album. “Really? Wow. What do you think people are expecting from us then? We would like to give people what they want, we wouldn’t like to disappoint anyone. We are going to do our best, but we’re not people to run around to fans and papers and scream “PLEASE LOVE US!” -No you’re not. “We are just trying to be honest with ourselves. -Yes, you are. “It’s not like we try to keep up with the new musical trends. Yesterday someone asked me what I thought of Spearmint. Spearmint! He thought it was incredible that I hadn’t heard about them. Have you heard about Spearmint?” -No “ Thank God! I thought it was just me!” -What do you listen to? “ I like pop. And musicals. When I’m drunk I like to do a couple of songs from “Guys & Dolls” and “West Side Story”. And I like Madonna. And Miles Davies. And the Beatles. So I am not really down with the latest trends. -No? “No. We are just ordinary people that live in Glasgow. We don’t hang out in the party crowd in London. We go in the studio, make records and when we are finished we go home again” __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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