The IPC magazine mafia may have been
sniffy about them, but Oxford's The Bigger The God make us happy. So we invited
them to our Christmas party, too...
* for people who dont know, what do
TBTG sound of?
I never find this easy, I think it's best summed up
by a friend of a friend who saw us for the first time the other week:
"The bastard offspring of Jaques Brel and Enio
Morricone who went to school with the Swell Maps, got bullied by epic soundtracks.
Separated at birth from Calexico and brought up in a cabaret environment."
I think that captures the idea of the new album (The
Bigger The God ...and the ugly). A bit Cabaret, a bit spaghetti western, a
bit cinematic, and a bit odd.
* for people who like to make up their
own minds, how can they find out more?
If you've got internet access, have a look at www.oxfordmusic.net
(there's a load of other good stuff on there too). If you haven't you can
mail order our latest album from Oxford Music Central, 65 George Street, Oxford
OX1 2BE, cheques for 12 quid payable to The Bigger The God. Also the new album's
getting some local radio plays around the country and some of our older, more
mainstream indie stuff is still kicking about (mostly in the bargain bins
these days!). The new album doesn't have any national distribution yet so
it won't be in the shops but if the monthly mags like it that might change.
* have you ever played liverpool?
Nearly. I think it got cancelled. Soz!
* what sort of musical associations
does liverpool conjure up for you?
The Beatles, obviously, and then other great stuff
like Echo and the Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes. And of course more recent
stuff like Cast - I hope you've disowned the bastards.
* whats your home town music scene
like?
Thriving. Since the success of Ride, Radiohead and
Supergrass there's tons of local bands (mostly regulation indie stuff but
there's a few odd ones starting to appear) and some great venues, although
we still have the usual problems of closures and so on. We never get any really
big bands, they all seem to play London and Birmingham and miss us out, but
some of them are starting to do low-key warm-ups at the Zodiac. Which is nice.
* and for the year 2000 - what comes
next?
I think we're off to the pub.
* okay, not the most inspired q's ever,
but they're q's noentheless...
Perhaps not the most inspired answers, but thanks anyway.
Feel free to cut it
down if I rambled too much.
Wouldn't dream of it. It occurs that
there are more than a few parallels between Oxford and Liverpool - ina kind
of 'twin hands' sort of way. except, of course, Oxford has Morse and we get
Sam Janus. Life's a bitch.
