I’d explain, no, he’s really the Reverend of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. He’d be in his dog collar and they wanted to know if he was dressing up in a costume. “They were more curious about my father who would chaperone me. What did those early audiences make of the 13-year-old you singing show tunes?
Although it got to a point where I felt: ‘What do I need to do to not have beer spilled over me and the piano?’ It was a great training ground, and the gays taught me a lot about being present with an audience.” Once you’ve had to deal with hecklers in bars on a nightly basis, you see what works for different audiences and have more than one approach in your toolbox. This is where I think going from your room as an influencer onto the big stage means there are some tools you don’t gain. gay bars from the age of 13 would have been good training for rendering you immune to any shade – or heckling – that’s thrown your way? Some things that happened in the ‘90s should stay in the ‘90s! ” As they say in The Odd Couple: ‘You should never assume – because you make an ass out of u and me’. I think he assumed I had a privileged life. doesn’t know me or my life, or what I’ve been through. Live performance can really bring out the devil horns! It’s a true story, but it goes back a long way to 1992, and it was a passing comment. “ Oh dear! Luckily, Mancunians usually have a good sense of humour.
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You sang: ‘You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out, Morrissey’ after telling a story about how you once met Moz backstage at a TV show and praised him with: ‘Hey man, really great songs’, only for him to sneer: ‘What the fuck do you know?’ I dropped the Phil Collins name so they wouldn’t pump my stomach!”ģ When you covered Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ live in Manchester in 2005, what did you alter the lyrics to? They asked me what I did, and I told them I was a singer and had been on a record with Phil Collins. “They were threatening to pump my stomach! My friend and I had come from Amsterdam and I didn’t have any marijuana on me, but my friend had some hidden in the heel of her boot. Two ‘Y Kant Tori Read’ tracks appeared as B-sides to a Phil Collins ‘ A Groovy Kind of Love’ sampler, which apparently helped you escape jail when you were detained in Germany in the early ‘90s because the border guards were fans of the Genesis drummer… But, to liven things up, I got my boyfriend at the time’s artist mother to do some illustrations.”
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A stylist later said to me: ‘What were you thinking at the time?!’ Well, exactly! I didn’t call a professional stylist, and clearly I should have! There was no money for another photoshoot, although honestly, I should have just gotten a Polaroid done.
“Nice! I have to raise my hand and say I’m guilty of the album art. “Um – a dragon, and a person with a sword?” 1 What two illustrations appear on the cover of your pre-solo synthpop band Y Kant Tori Read’s 1988 self-titled album?