Select mag sept 1992 - full page interview with Zenith written by Grant Morrison - new illustration by Steve Yeowell. I'll happily supply the original if needed! Any chance this could get in Phase four?
Never seen that. It would be great of it was added!
I imagine EMAP might want a pile of cash for the reprint though.
Thanks for the suggestion robert_ellis, though I'm afraid it's not something we'll be able to include.
No worries Moloch-R. Thanks for these excellent books - really loving the spines & design.
Quote from: robert_ellis on 09 February, 2015, 05:51:23 PM
Moloch-R
Typo.
Or not.
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More like this, I reckon...
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I thought he'd been moonlighting as a ref model for Cliff...
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How did I not see that.Any news when Devlin is returning to the Prog or Med it's been far too long.
Quote from: Molch-R on 09 February, 2015, 04:08:15 PM
Thanks for the suggestion robert_ellis, though I'm afraid it's not something we'll be able to include.
What about the one-page Pop Profile that ran with Phase 1in the prog? Any chance of squeezing that in to the back of Phase IV at this late stage? I believe it wasn't included in the one-volume, and it is kind of cool in a Smash Hits way.
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 09 February, 2015, 07:54:20 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 09 February, 2015, 04:08:15 PM
Thanks for the suggestion robert_ellis, though I'm afraid it's not something we'll be able to include.
What about the one-page Pop Profile that ran with Phase 1in the prog? Any chance of squeezing that in to the back of Phase IV at this late stage? I believe it wasn't included in the one-volume, and it is kind of cool in a Smash Hits way.
No plans for that, I believe.
Quote from: Molch-R on 09 February, 2015, 08:25:22 PM
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 09 February, 2015, 07:54:20 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 09 February, 2015, 04:08:15 PM
Thanks for the suggestion robert_ellis, though I'm afraid it's not something we'll be able to include.
What about the one-page Pop Profile that ran with Phase 1in the prog? Any chance of squeezing that in to the back of Phase IV at this late stage? I believe it wasn't included in the one-volume, and it is kind of cool in a Smash Hits way.
No plans for that, I believe.
Ehhnn, I have safety scissors and some prit-stick, I'll manage.
Thanks for the reply, Mr. M.
Could you possibly post the original interview?
Just found an app that converts text in photos so here's the start of The Think Thank Zenith Interview...
Isn't it a bit late to be "going baggy"? All that stuff is very 1990. Surely you'd be better off trying to be the next Nirvana?
Yeah, well, obviously what you're talking about is that interview they did with me for The South Bank Show, and if you'd half a brain in your head you'd have realised that when spoke to old Melvyn and his merry men it was 1990. Look at what I've got on: does this look "baggy" to you? (Zenith is wearing a Chevignon jacket, New Balance trainers, a normal Tshirt and Mambo shorts, covered in lots ofZs) As for Nirvana, can they punch through solid steel? I don't think so. When it comes down to it, everyone wishes they were me but nobody s going to be "the next Zenith". I'm a pop original, like Elvis, Jim Morrison, Johnny Rotten, Nick Heyward...
Was it true about you and Sherilyn Fenn in the Roxbury nlghtclub (Reader's note: this is a club In Los Angeles where the stars go to cop off? Did Mickey Rourke really try to punch your lights out?
There's nothing to explain. I was just passing and l popped in to use the toilet and suddenly I'm surrounded by all these babes with silicone jobs and IQs that read like temperatures in Greenland. Some girl asked for my telephone number and gave me a felt pen, so I wrote the number of the Samaritans on her thigh and headed for the VIP lounge. That's when bumped into Sherilyn and asked her if she could explain the ending of Two Moon Junction to me. She'd something caught in the zip of her dress and I was trying to give her a hand when this midget with boxing gloves on came out of the crowd and took a swing at me. Obviously, he didn't recognise me and he didn't know about my super powers. He hit me and broke his wrist. I hit him and he woke up in Seattle. I didn't know it was Mickey Rourke until later. I quite like one of his films but I can't remember which one.
(More to follow...)
What's your favourite Smiths song?
I like that one that goes "Oh, Glen... What's it called Death At One's Elbow) It's the worst song they ever recorded, isn't it? That's my favourite.
And your favourite Morrissey tune?
I didn't know he had any. I still like the words though. Maybe he should just quietly turn into Alan Bennett. What have you got in your pockets?
Nothing interesting. A wallet with credit cards and guest passes in it. A little black book with the phone numbers of all the girls you wish you knew, a set of keys, a comb and a bit of Fruit And Nut wrapped up in silver paper. D'you want it?
You've been telling everybody you went clubbing at Shoom in '88, but that's the '90's equivalent of saying you saw the Sex Pistols at the Vortex in '77. It's not true, is it?
I don't know what you're trying to prove here. Ask anyone who was there and they'll tell you exactly what I was doing. Obviously you weren't there or you'd have seen me. Maybe you were too busy waiting for your electric blanket to heat up.
Alright then. Name three acid house records. You can't, can you?
No, I can't. And if you'd been out of your face on E every night, you couldn't tell me the name of three acid house records either. I couldn't even have told you what my address was back then.
(More to follow...)
Coronation Street or Eldorado?
Eldorado. No contest. It's got the lot sun, sea, sex, San Miguels, Kathy Pitkin. And I like that Lusty Dusty or whatever his name is. He's a swine, isn't he? The women love that. Watching Coronation Street's like buying stamps really it's just something you do. Eldorado takes real commitment. It'll never be a good as Albion Market though.
What is your drug of choice?
Paracetamol. Vodka. Harry Secombe's Highway.
What do you think of Ripley with no hair and no guns in Alien?
I wouldn't go and see it. What do they fight the alien with? Sarcasm? The whole shaved head thing's just a pathetic attempt to cash in of the fleeting popularity of Right Said Fred.
What did you get the name Zenith from? It sounds ambient-house prog rocky, like The Orb. or Gong,
I don't know what you're talking about. I've never heard of Gong. Weren't they in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981? I got the name from Eddie, my agent. It means the peak, the top, you know, and that's what I am. Also, it's like a brand name and is probably a scathing indictment of the consumer society.
What about the Goebbels diaries?
Is it strictly 0K to pay out money to reproduce Nazi propaganda?
People love that stuff. Stick a swastika on anything and you're onto a winner so you might as we take the money and run. I had a pretty good fight with a resurrected Nazi superhuman a couple of years ago and the video's still selling Zenith vs. Masterman, Virgin Vision, £9.99. I don't think the diaries are likely to inspire any big Nazi uprising anyway. You can just imagine them: May 5th... Pick up suit from dry cleaners. Must remind AH to invade Czechoslovakia. "The new Euro-Nazis can't read anyway. Maybe if it was all in pictures it'd be dangerous, but otherwise, I don't think anyone cares. In a year or two we'll find they were fake and then the BBC'll get a BAFTA award-winning drama out of it and it'll all be forgotten.
Have you had an AIDS test?
Why? Fancy a shag, do you? I don't need one. Being superhuman, I've got an immune system that's better than NATO for defending me. Nothing gets past my antibodies. ve never had a disease in my life.
Why aren't you playing Reading? Scared of being blown offstage by The Wonder Stuff and Public Enemy?
You must be joking. It'd take tactical thermo-nuclear weapons to blow me offstage. Those kind of gigs are for losers. If I do something these days it's got to be global. Nothing less will satisfy. I was backstage at Glastonbury, laughing at Bobby Gillespie's dancing and replacing his sulphate with powdered cat milk, but otherwise you won't catch me wasting my time at any of those things. I'd this idea to get the Black And White Minstrels together again as a rap act. You could call the outta and have the Minstrels on the fron in their Al Jolson makeup and candy. striped trousers, carrying Uzis and surrounded by mounds of crack an girls in bikinis. I'd buy it !
What's the last record you bought?
Luton Airport' by Cats UK. Nah, l don't buy records, I get them free. Somebody gave me 'Metal Mickey' by Suede. That was OK. Are they the Next Big Thing or the Last Big Thing? I can't really keep track anymore.
Who's your favourite comics character?
I don't read comics. They rot your brain, that's what I heard. I used to like Commando comics: "He may wear specs but he's a cracking good shot." "Take That, Fritz!" All that stuff was great. My favourite character was probably Hookjaw, who was a shark who just went around eating everyone in sight. A positive role model for children and character you could look up to.
...and this image, unique to the Select Interview!