So I did buy a big fuck-off house but never bought anything. You always think, when you get a bit of money the first thing you'll do is buy a big fuck-off house, but what you never account for is you'll never like shopping. The first time my dad told me he was really proud of me was when I was in my late 30s and I rewired the Hoover. Can you imagine Geneviève Moyet in Basildon? Wouldn't work. Once, I had to swing my microphone into a whole big circle of them, otherwise we wouldn't have got out alive. You used to get your teeth kicked in in those days if you had the wrong cut of trouser or the wrong point of shoe. There were times we'd be surrounded by skinheads, mods, Teds or "market boys", and I had to out-threaten them. It was always me and a group of about eight blokes hanging round Canvey. How wild were the gigs supporting Dr Feelgood with your various punk bands? (3 ) And when I went to college the bass player from Talk Talk was there. In my class at school there was Andy Fletcher and Martin Gore and Perry Bamonte of the Cure. So everyone had to make their own entertainment. It was fine but there was absolutely no culture. What was Basildon like in the 70s?Ī big council estate. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist? When you watch X Factor you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. When I saw Adele I thought: "I'll give it an hour before people say I was her," just because I was fat.
And vocals are all about acrobatics and mimicry.ĭo you ever look at Adele and think: "That was me in 1985"?
My generation had prog rock and punk and edgy folk. Does it annoy you that young women still cite Billie Holiday as an influence?
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