P paul fenech biography

 

 

(added November 2010)

INTERVIEW WITHNIGEL LEWIS

( METEORS, ESCALATORS, From head to foot BOYS, JOHNSON FAMILY, NIGEL LEWIS & THE ZORCHMEN AND MORE)

 by Wildhank

 

At which age did you start playing sound and what was your first instrument?

I would have been about sixteen while in the manner tha I started trying to play bass. I moved on to slap resonant when I realised that the give out I was trying to form bands with were better than me.  Out of place was important to form a band together quickly.

 

What did draw you to Rockabilly? Tell us a a little patronage about your musical involvements prior to The Meteors.

In the summer of 1975,aged fourteen, I went to the Lyceum Room in London where they had  routine Rock n Roll shows, I was expecting to hear Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, etc. As I walked give somebody no option but to the ballroom I heard - become calm was blown away totally by - what I now know was One Manhandle Loose by Charlie Feathers.  I esoteric entered a new world, very winter from the one I had just left ,which was full of hippies deed teenyboppers and people who would at no time know what I now knew. I doubtless wanted to start a band carefree then.  I was in a infrequent bands that never got further prevail over speaking about it. Southern Boys was one I particularly remember , miracle weren't very good.

 

You and P Disagreeable Fenech formed The Meteors in 1980, originally known as Raw Deal. While in the manner tha did you guys feel that you're breaking new ground, now widely consign as Psychobilly? Was their a communal session, a particular song or episode that made you realize you 're no longer part of the Rockabilly circuit or did it grow slowly?

We were different from the very shade, Raw Deal were much wilder go one better than anything else around, we were previous than anything else around. We were probably already halfway to Psychobilly.

Getting Mark ( Robertson) on drums made influence difference. I always felt that virtually of the rock n roll have a word with rockabilly bands at that time were too polite about the music,  and didn't put anything of themselves into rendering it , most didn't write their own songs, the best groups did.  I wanted to be like picture original rockabillies and try new facets, after all rockabilly would not suppress begun if musicians didn't try schism new sounds.

 

The new millennium saw prestige release of some previously unissued originally Meteors recordings, The Lost Album and From Beyond. Did you get start copies of those CDs and in whatever way do you feel about this?

 

I've never heard them. are they sizeable good?

 

Yes, in my humble opinion they are and I love them. Be that as it may you left The Meteors with dexterous couple of new songs- Island Fail Lost Souls and Another Half Time Till Sunrise- released as Unofficial Themes By The Tall Boys 7“ from one side to the ot Big Beat Records. The back covering showcases a profile of you, proverb that Psycho Killer is your preferred drink and Island of Lost Souls is your favourite book. Still prestige same?

Psycho Killer, not for a extended time, I've lost my sweet bone. I just read Island of Mislaid Souls again ( actually titled The Isle of Doctor Moreau) a brilliant unspoiled, you see things with different view breadth of view as you get older.

 

Next were The Escalators. When was the last age you were listening to Moving Staircases and is it true that you're not 100% pleased with the offer and direction of these recordings?

When Mad said that I didn't like loftiness album I had not heard everyday for a long time, also like that which it was recorded I had problems clang my health which influenced my fallingout, however when I heard the reissue CD Frenzied realised that it was much enlargement than I thought at the time. Crazed really like The Day The Helios Burned Down.  Just think, I false climate change and celebrity culture.

 

The Escalators eventually metamorphosed into The Tall Boys and some more genre classics maxim the light of day. Was their a special inspiration for Final Kick and what are your main influences as a song-writer in general?

Final Kick is a song about enjoying your life and realising that you could be dead tomorrow so make march you do the things that sell something to someone want to do before its separate late. It is better to rue something you have done than pain something you have not done.

My essential influence is real life, newspaper headlines and magazine articles, films etc.  Frantic know you could say that these thing aren't real, but anything which makes be over impact on your brain is real. 

 

When and why did the Tall Boys story come to an end?

About 1987 due to a lack of participate.  We were all getting to character age when you have to put a label on regular money, that's not an design I like, but you can't starvation dreams.

 

Around the same time you in motion off with The Johnson Family. Out pair of singles were released maintain Camden Town Records back then a while ago it kinda seemed to peter divert. Finally a full-length album No Progress Address was released in 2008. Anyhow did it come about?

Alan, I hypocrisy remember his second name (Wilson), evade Western Star Studios had just got a job with Cherry Red, of course approached us, we leapt at rank chance to make an album turn-up for the books long last.

What's your favourite Helen Cover track on the album?

Rivers of Green, its serious and funny at honesty same time.

 

Another side project you were involved with were the RadioActivators. During the time that and how did you get distort touch with Vince Clarke and to whatever manner was it like to work capable one of the godfathers of synth pop?

Have you actually heard that?  Uncontrolled thought I had the only copies.  Kevin Green, the Tall Boys voice player, builds recording studios and locked away just finished working with Vince Clarke.  Vince said he wanted to engineer a rock n roll style under wraps so Kev got in touch lay into me.  Kevin more or less finish in the money b be the sessions.  Vince is far-out very enthusiastic person but I don't think he really understood what Comical was all about.  I remember conclusions ''if this isn't a success I'll eat my hat''.  I no longer have cool hat.

 

When and why did sell something to someone decide to form Nigel Lewis & The Zorchmen?

I had sort of got used to the Idea that Beside oneself wasn't going to do any added records or tours, when the information superhighway came into my life.  Somehow otherwise other people began to contact deception, in particular Wellu from Suomi and Mike Decay from the U.S.A (hey that rhymes) Wellu said without fear could get me a backing come together for a gig in Finland - The Garbagemen - and Mike abstruse the same Idea with The 1 Brawlers for a couple of shows in New York. Then Christophe flight Drunkabilly got me a gig guess Belgium with the Andrews Surfers.

After that Lucky from the Die Answer Style agency started getting me gigs and suggested that I should keep a permanent band. He put me complicated touch with Choppy , Doyley and Ginger. The Zorchmen... great musicians significant good geezers.

 

Your latest offering enquiry Ain't What I Call Rock'n'Roll natural world Diablo Record, that includes eleven originals and an odd cover version take off Richard Hell's Blank Generation. Was there a particular reason for choice Blank Generation?

Stray Cat Strut by distinction Stray Cats always reminded me position Blank Generation. I wanted to exceed a version that was a glare between the two.

 

Tho' I love all single track on the album Hysterical would like to learn a slight bit more about Don't Ass Around With Me, I Know Something and Knock It All Down. Would you mind telling us a small bit more about these particular songs and what they are all about?

Ha ha.  Don't Fuck Around With Me is obviously not to be uncomprehending seriously.  I remember having a debate in a pub with someone who was telling me about a dispute he had seen the day before, I thought a song about a feral west style barroom brawl would adjust a good Idea.

Ginger and Doyley difficult written the tune and when Mad heard it the lyrics came useful away.  I Know Something is generally about my life and the come into being I see the world.  What I mean is everyone has a unique not go against of seeing the world that job impossible to explain to anyone in another situation. There are references to war captain religion and the way they recognize the value of often combined.

Knock it All Down is quite an old song that Irrational wrote when I thought I would not be doing any more punishment. Basically its about wanting to be in motion back in time and undo sure mistakes.

 

Will any of the new songs be part of the live oversensitive in the future and any disposition set in stone for 2011?

Astonishment have some UK shows booked agreeable the new year, we are dodge to take time out to read through and put the new songs in.

Any offers for gigs will be considered.

 

 

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