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Blue Tales
slight returns...
| Jan 2000.
new single "keep the home fires burning" is released on february 21 and the
third album is out in May. The Bluetones have been sorely missed, too many miseries
around. The band were recently spotted having their photo taken in West London. It was
freezing and they had to "freeze" for half a minute or so while the photographer
took the shot. Unable to turn around they could hear "Mark!", "Mark!"
"Oi, Mark Morriss!" followed shortly by "SPAZ!" - which made Mark laff
(and wonder who it had been!). |
| Belfast
Girl gets up close and personal with The Bluetones... her interview and live review
from the September 1999 tour were on her high school site (now now!) and she is one of a
few Bluetones fans working with them nowadays. |
| Record
Collector Magazine End Of 1999 - Top 500 Collectable Artist 1999
Poll Results, The Bluetones are at 180 up from 414 last year * August 1999 and, of course,
the band are recording in the right part of the UK for the eclipse... |
| September
1999, Bluetown has a word with Mark... Will any of the new
tunes that were played at the January gigs be on the next album? "In January we played three new songs at our Astoria gig, all of
which will be making it onto the new album, "Emily's Pine", "One Speed
Gearbox" and "Blood Bubble".
Has Eds been to see the new Star Wars film
(seeing as baby Benjamin's second name is Annakin!)? "We
all went to see Phantom Menace on the day it opened. Eds has always been a big Star Wars
fan (as have the rest of us) so when he christened his first-born son Benjamin Annakin, no
one was surprised."
Do you think that 90s bands (in essence the
so-called 21st Century's first pop stars) are still fettered by the scenes, labels and
boundaries of the media? "The music media in
the UK is a pretty destructive force on the whole. There are one or two genuinely
enthusiastic and intelligent journalists at work, but on the whole the industry buns on
gossip and hearsay. The best option, is to just opt out altogether as we do. We do the
minimum amount required because is is so soul destroying wasting time speaking with
idiots."
Any obsessive compulsive disorders? "I'm afraid I'm a bit of a cleaning freak. It relaxes me.
Even at the studio, where we have chambermaids (la-di-da!) to clean up for us, I still put
all the cups and crockery into the dishwasher before we go to bed. Mental illness or
working-class guilt? You decide!
Seeya at the gigs
Mark! |
 the noodle to the rescue!
the bluetones played london astoria in january as part of the 1999 nme brats week,
the sellout show was legendary (if you were there you were probably surprised to later
hear the band more or less written off on the nme brats tv show by the nme).
that week of gigs was filmed for tv, not the bluetones though! luckily it
has been caught on video for posterity by a keen bluetones fan, so, cheers noodle.
noodle's also the geezer off the lucozade mod advert - (oh, and that's him on the sleeve
of the dandys' single too)
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 Here is Mark about to go on stage at Cafe Bluetonic - The Bluetones
first U.S.A. show closed the CMJ 96 party in New York. A queue-around the block sellout,
the band were amazed that so many people over there had heard of them.
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They
went down a storm of course... After Tessa Rock Chick threw an all night party for the
band. The Bluetones and partying go hand in hand...
in fact, here*s tour manager Dominic a few hours later
at the party , Eds looked darned good in that wig too! |
| The day after the party The Bluetones (famous
for not getting out of bed until late afternoon) had to be at Brooklyn Bridge early in the
morning for a photo session. As they would
never have got out of bed in time, it was a good thing that they stayed up all night and
partied, but they were visibly wilting.
Nocturnal blokes, their whole mates/fans posse are on the
eternal music and partying wavelength... |
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more to come, as ever... |
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