Continuing our occasional slightly pointless series
of interviews with bands that have the same name as Liverpool bands, the London
Clear talk about themselves, and their hand twins. But guess what? They're
a Liverpool act too - in a way.
You're a band called Clear. What are
you like?
Unashamadedly pop. Musical pointers are XTC, The Kinks and Blondie. But according
to 'the industry' we take all these influences and make them our own. Basically
we write stuff that is a) interesting and b) catchy enough to sing in the
shower. Check out www.clearweb.org
or find us on www.peoplesound.com
Where are you from?
London
Have you ever heard the Liverpool Clear?
Afraid not.
What sort of musical associations
does Liverpool conjure up for you?
We did some pre-production on single up there in the
studios at LIPA. For us Liverpool means late nights, a dodgy hotel, playing
pool and pizza food poisoning. There not really musical associations - although
Mark Roberts (the bass player) got George Martin to help him with his final
year dissertation when he was a student.
How interested would you be in playing
Liverpool?
Absolutely. We'll probably be touring sometime next
year - but we have to get another single recorded and deal with some of the
industry who seem keen to work with us. We're being pretty cagey at the moment.
Any label without a decent Internet strategy is being politely told to 'wait
for our call'.
Are you pissed off there's another
band with your name?
Nope. There's plenty of 'Clears' - one in Sheffield,
two in America (including some Christain Rockers from LA!) another one in
London and a band called 'Clearway' down here too. It's a race to see which
of us gets into the charts first I guess. It proves it's a great name after
all.
And this, of course, is betting without
threehundredclear who are also traipsing round Merseyside - at first we thought
they were the ordinary Clear doing three hundred sets (which is possible,
there is such a thing as purgatory.)
