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Big credit for Steve Drury, who supplied most of the live photos you see on the site.
Sounds 1987 "What
we enjoy is
making people feel uneasy"
"I
don't play it.
I just make noises on it really"
"It's
a
shitty
old guitar. It
was covered in paint and stuff and I put a load of stickers all over
it."
"I
listen to
a lot of
Jazz and the influence is seeping in. I strive not to be a rock drummer"
"Most
people
I've met in
these big bands are right twats anyway!"
Sssh!
Shuttup,
they can read
this!
"Musically
we've been
influenced by all of the
people we've known in over the past five yearswho have said they were
going to form a band and did nothing about it and later came up to us
and going on about how wonderful we are when there's nothing stopping
them doing the same" |
Wolfhounds
wrote jarring, cacophonously
rapturous songs, by turns slow and sorrowful or
fast and full of aggressive passion. Like McCarthy, theirs was the sound
of proud, angry voices; an enormous sense of inner rage held on the edges
of uncontrolled explosion. But control was the key: the rage seethed,
the anger at injustices seeping through snarled barbs and sharp swipes.
About two minutes in and I get the nod from Clarkey. I step forward, hit the fuzz box and whooooooossshhhŠI'm gone. The great gods of guitar based rock smile down on me from heaven. My fingers glide across the fretboard like tigers on Vaseline and pure molten lumps of rock'n'roll spew forth from my amp, filling the room with the past, present and future of music . Tears flow from the eyes of tiny children... More ANDY
GOLDING
Portait by Helen, 1986
NME 1988
Mike Morton '89
Mike Morton, 89
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"Don't
let him sucker
you with those big eyes and mournful eyebrows," she'd
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