| **Me:** | Firstly your
influences?
|
| **Glen:** | I think band
influences Bowie, smashing pumpkiny, sound garden yer sound
garden we are quite schizophrenic in most things in life and
influences we're sort of the heavier stuff and then the real pop
stuff as well
|
| **David:** | Actually I'm
strongly influenced by Blondie
|
| **Me:** | Yer and I'm strongly
influenced by soundgarden and metallica, kiss and motley crew
|
| **David:** | Motley Crew?
|
| **Mark:** | I've got all sorts of
shit at home female singer-song writers like Carol King, Aretha
Franklin, I'm also into more quirky shit like deus, oh and really
like Flaming Lips
|
| **Me:** | Oh I love the Flaming Lips
|
| **David:** | Chris what do you like?
|
| **Chris:** | I like Loraine
(someone) if you're talking about female artists, erm well my
favourite musician is (inaudible) same old stuff bass players.
|
| **David:** | Bass players (yawn)
|
| **Me:** | Question for Glen right. I
saw you supporting Serum
|
| **Mark:** | Do you remember they had
two kids with shaved heads?
|
| **David:** | I remember them I thought
they were Christians guys? (laughs)
|
| **Glen:** | Sort of Hari Krishna guys
|
| **David:** | You haven't really studied
religion very well, Christian Hari Krishna's (carries on mumbling
away about Glen's lack of knowledge for religion)
|
| **Glen:** | We're the holiest band in
the world by the way
|
| **David:** | Some sort of Taoist Nazi
was he (Group laughter)
|
| **Glen:** | Yer anyway your question
|
| **Me:** | Do you like chose who you
throw your drumsticks to because it hurt when it hit me?
|
| **David:** | Did it hit ya?
|
| **Glen:** | I'll buy you a drink in a
minute yer I get that a lot at many gigs; I normally try throwing
them at him (points to Mark) or him (Points to David)
|
| **David:** | I have to tell you this
you've never hit me
|
| **Glen:** | I have hit him (mark) a
couple of times.
|
| **Mark:** | I nearly got decapitated
by his cymbals last show.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer we played our first
show in a long time bit of a sour ending as well, quite sad
really we had the plug pulled on us.
|
| **Me:** | Peel club
|
| **Mark:** | Where you there?
|
| **Me:** | No. We should have been
there cos we like come from Kingston
|
| **Glen:** | Good on you where abouts
in Kingston?
|
| **Simon:** | Berrylands
|
| **Glen:** | Oh I know Berrylands,
|
|
Random shouts of yer. The conversation
continues about location and how Simon is the only young person
in Berrylands. Glen and me talk about how he is going to
continuously throw his sticks at me all night.
|
| **Glen:** | Any way take it as a gift
|
| **Me:** | I tried to catch it
|
| **Glen:** | So you missed it
|
| **David:** | Yer cos it went straight
through my head (impersonating me with a drumstick through my
head!)
|
| **Glen:** | It was nothing personal.
I apologise I get it quite a lot they break, shame drumsticks
aren't made of what they use to be
|
| **David:** | What wood?
|
| **Glen:** | Iron
|
| **David:** | Now that is one thing I
would pay to see you playing with iron drumsticks
|
| **Glen:** | Laughs, that'd be great
I'd be quieter then
|
| **David:** | It would be about one beat
per song
|
| **Glen:** | Yer ha ha doubt it though
|
| **David:** | There'd be a lot of
groaning and straining going on
|
| **Glen:** | Where was that? That was
here with Serum
|
| **David:** | I can't really remember
them
|
| **Mark:** | There was one really
little guy
|
| **Me:** | Yer that's Ben
|
| **Mark:** | Shaved heads and that all
I really remember
|
| **David:** | I saw them sound check and
never quite watched them though (Random calls of yer) We're
like baked beans on a raft
|
| **Mark:** | I think I liked them
|
| **Me:** | Ah they've split
|
| **Mark:** | Ah have they broke up
|
| **Me:** | Yer about 3 months ago,
just after the gig actually,
|
| **David:** | Did they not like it was
it a personality thing. You've gotta be
in love to do it, yer you really do.
|
| **Glen:** | I mean only today we've
had eerm we've had some stuff over that well, since you've last
seen us young Christopher has metamorphasized from our Graeme.
Well our Graeme has vanished, he's er, we did a
video shot for 'Superstar' and that's the last we've seen of him
|
| **Me:** | How did that go?
|
| **David:** | It's just amazing, same
people who did err worked on star wars and Judge Dredd, big
budget, big set very lovely, they spent Wednesday night throwing
me in a swimming pool. Yes so now I've got a cold.
|
| **Me:** | Could you describe your
new single?
|
| **Glen:** | New single right it's not
as heavy as it could have been.
|
| **David:** | Yer its got a kinda
swagger to it a kind of T-rexy kinda swagger about it
|
| **Mark:** | Something to have great
sex to.
|
| **David:** | Yer but you've gotta be
quick as you've only got about 3 ½ minutes though
|
| **Chris:** | That's quick that's you
pushing it good grief, 3 minutes that's including cigarette
(Laughter)
|
| **Glen:** | Oh what's her name um, one
of the DJ at Xfm said that 'it sways better than a flag in the
wind' which is quite a good err way of describing it
|
| **Mark:** | Just basically has a lot
of swagger about it.
|
| **David:** | It's a bit lazy a bit
summery
|
| **Mark:** | Have you heard it yet?
|
| **Me:** | No cos we can't pick up
Xfm where we live
|
| **David:** | It's not played on Xfm we
haven't even mixed the b-sides yet.
|
|
Bar break
|
| **David:** | I don't know if I'm going
to be able to not drink it's gonna be hard what with it being
Friday night.
|
| **Me:** | Yer well my not drinking
lasted until I got in the door.
|
| **David:** | Yer exactly the heat
|
| **Glen:** | Yer cos it goes on to two;
we should all be in a drunken state. A lot the whole Graeme thing
has caused us to slow down our single is meant to be out in three
weeks time and y'know when someone you've known for 12yrs
disappears overnight. Not just one of my band members he's one of
my best friends so the CID are on it and er y'know they're out
hunting so... If you've wondered why we've been a bit lazy,
we've not been lazy we've just been struggling.
|
| **Mark:** | Yer its really, being back
here again its weird really cos that's probably the last time we
played here weren't it.
|
| **David:** | No we were headlining
|
| **Mark:** | Oh right that must have
been the one before that then.
|
| **David:** | We've got an awful lot
since then, its all politics, there's so many people you have to
meet and you've got to try and impress, you just can't do it by
gigging.
|
| **Glen:** | So that's what we've been
doing.
|
| **Me:** | I've been constantly
trying to plug it to Steve Lamacq so
|
| **Glen:** | He likes it, yer he really
likes 'Superstar'
|
| **David:** | Does he?
|
| **Glen:** | Really plug the single for
us
|
| **David:** | Well if you like it...
it's probably best if you hear it first
|
| **Chris:** | In case you hate it
|
| **Me:** | Well yer... y'know
|
| **Glen:** | Yer we'd appreciate it
|
| **David:** | Any words you can put in,
that's the thing though that's what it comes down to, y'know
you've got to get people to play your stuff and you've spent two
months ringing people up, buttering people up trying to get them
ready for something.
|
| **Me:** | Just say you support
Colchester United, and he'll play it!
|
| **David:** | Yer oh really
|
| **Glen:** | Yer Chris you like
football, (Chris gives a puzzled look.)
|
| **Chaz:** | Come one the U's
|
| **Chris:** | No I don't like Football
|
| **Chas:** | Come on its Colchester
United you don't need to like football.
|
| **Mark:** | I played in Colchester
|
| **Chris:** | What venues in Colchester
|
| **Mark:** | No Its Chelmsford, I went
to the Army and Navy, and the y-club.
|
| **Me:** | Um... The Arts Centre
Yer you wanna play in the arts centre (Loud rabble in agreement)
|
| **Mark:** | Mansun are playing there
|
| **Me:** | Yer Mansun and King Adora.
|
| **Glen:** | I like King Adora their
single is great.
|
| **Mark:** | Arrggh I love Mansun, who
thinks we should go and see them, yer there all playing up in
Colchester yer Mansun.
|
| **David:** | I hate their new single
|
| **Mark:** | You hate it, its fucking
genius
|
| **David:** | He's using the same two
chords
|
| **Glen:** | So do we
|
| **David:** | No we fucking don't
|
| **Glen:** | Glen goes off into the
intro of 'Superstar' got you there?
|
| **Chris:** | Chris sings the bit
|
| **Glen:** | I like it two chords are
great U2 made some of my favourite albums with two chords
|
| **David:** | You can watch us split up
now if he carries on like that
|
| **Me:** | Oh alright...
|
| **David:** | Watch it, catch it, turn
up the volume, two fucking chords you cheecky cunt, I have spent
the last 10 years writing songs so you can tell me I use only two
chords.
|
| **Glen:** | Am I wrong in this?
|
| **Chris:** | Meow (More laughter...)
|
| **David:** | Apart from the fact that
in that bit alone there's three so it doesn't say a lot for your
maths. (More laughing...)
|
| **Glen:** | That bit doesn't count.
|
| **David:** | Right anyway... Not
funny really (Aarrgghhh.) Fuck off you can try writing
things any time you like sweetheart
|
| **Glen:** | Well I would but...
|
| **David:** | Exactly. Anyway...
|
| **Me:** | If you could describe your
sound in five words... I'm not ripping off Q really I'm not.
|
| **Glen:** | Well there's loud, loud,
loud, loud and loud.
|
| **Me:** | That's a good selection.
|
| **Glen:** | There's swagger, we try to
get a little swingy feel.
|
| **David:** | So that's loud, loud,
loud, loud and swagger. Loud, infectious and
|
| **Glen:** | Beautiful
|
| **David:** | Yer beautiful.
|
| **Glen:** | It's all a bit pretentious
but rock with wonderful songs.
|
| **David:** | Same old shit different
people.
|
| **Chris:** | Good rock
|
| **Me:** | And um if you were going
to describe Coda, say like the manics describe the manics as an
entity where they are sort of a limb, Serum is what flows though
you where as Coldplay are just a band. Along those lines how
would you describe Coda are you just a band?
|
| **David:** | Errrmm. We are performance
arts cooperative
|
| **Mark:** | What? No we're not
|
| **David:** | Yer we are we do loads of
shit, film, scripts, music loads of stuff
|
| **Glen:** | Well spose
|
| **David:** | Loads of shit. Apart from
the fact that he thinks we only use two chords we actually get
along quite well... yer we are aren't we. Not at the moment
exactly but generally speaking.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer tonight we've not
being very cooperative.
|
| **Me:** | And moving on to the more
serious questions, here's one that Simon particularly wanted to
ask... Who is you favourite womble?
|
| **David:** | Favourite womble Madame
Cholet
|
| **Mark:** | No Uncle Bulgaria he was
the bollocks.
|
| **David:** | Madame Cholet she cooks
and she's beautiful.
|
| **Glen:** | Orinoco the only one I
remember.
|
| **Me:** | New wombles just aren't as
good; they've added loads of characters
|
| **Mark:** | That's wrong, no no you
see we're purists.
|
| **Me:** | And of course Timmy
Mallet, twat or cultural icon?
|
| **David:** | Timmy Mallet baby-sat for
me once so I won't hear a word against the man.
|
| **Me:** | Cultural icon then.
|
| **David:** | He use to do this all the
time "I use to be a werewolf but I'm alright
nooooooooow!"
|
| Twat, call the other members of Coda.
|
| **David:** | I was about 8 and I
thought he was a twat.
|
| **Chris:** | Take it it's a one sided
decision then.
|
| **Mark:** | Yer and Chris Evans has
based his career on it.
|
| **David:** | Did you know that Mike
Myers use to work for him, he use to be a research guy.
|
| **Mark:** | They should have added
Mallet Mullet instead each week a different mullet
|
| **Chris:** | Yer like curly or straight
|
|
At this point in time the girl who is with
Four Day Hombre comes over and offers Glen some of their
promotional stuff you know one of those paper things you use to
make in primary where you pick a word or number and it is lifted
to reveal something. Glen proceeds to try this out on me, where
I'm told the person on my left wants to buy me a drink, didn't
work though, brothers hey.
|
| **End of side one**
|
| **Side 2**
|
| **Me:** | Coldplay are really
lovely though aren't they?
|
| **Glen:** | **Glen:** Yer I realise this I
mean I was working with the drummer last week. They're really
lovely lads, not rock stars enough for me though.
|
| **David:** | **David:** Not really rock
stars
|
| **Glen:** | I tell you what that's
what we want, we wanna be rock stars.
|
| **David:** | Robbie Williams, Liam
Gallagher.
|
|
Conversation continues about rock star
credentials the subject moves on to er well sex really...
|
| **Glen:** | I was 14 and with a bullet
|
| **Chris:** | What's a bullet got
to do with it?
|
| **David:** | I was gooood my first
time. Shit ever since though, it's been
downhill really
|
| **Glen:** | I was outdoors and got
caught by an old man walking his dog. Tape recorder, ah no its
on.
|
| **Mark:** | Is that why you came so
quickly because of the dog?
(Group laughter)
|
| **David:** | Naw, it was the old man,
he had sex with the old man while walking his dog
|
| **Glen:** | Yer it was the old man and
the dog interrupted. Anyway I'm sick and tired of y'know, if you
ever watch a band, like I don't know, I mean their songs are very
nice, but I could just listen to the CD, its like okay I don't
want to just listen to music I want to be entertained. I mean I
like to see them jumping around or something, and being
entertaining and if they're not entertaining you by jumping
around or whatever I want to see them standing there looking as
cool as fuck.
|
| **Me:** | My Vitriol?
|
| **David:** | Did you know that Robbie
Williams went to fucking New Zealand, got a prostitute, and she
had already sold her story for something like 10 million quid by
the time she actually turned up at his front door. Erm I like, I
mean I don't like Robbie Williams but it's about time a few more
Englishmen went abroad and made real pricks
|
| **Chris:** | Babies. Ha ha ha.
|
| **David:** | As if the empire wasn't
big enough so...
|
| **Glen:** | We are going to leave a
trail of blood and sperm all over the country.
|
| **David:** | Blood and sperm?
|
| **Glen:** | All over the world
|
| **Chris:** | Blood, sperm and tears
|
| **David:** | Fuuuccckkk off the pair of
you.
|
| **Chris:** | We speak as one obviously.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer as you can tell, Coda
the most schizophrenic band you'll meet in years.
|
| **David:** | It's weird because we
haven't gigged for ages we got out of the habit and this is
really like a jump-start again. It's all a bit.
|
| **Me:** | I mean I do like a good
jumpy jumpy about stage, but erm you can't really jump to
Coldplay. (Glen
attempts to jump, very slowly, laughs)
|
| **Glen:** | You can sway.
|
| **Mark:** | What are they like though?
Are they good?
|
| **Me:** | Yep very. Live they are
amazing
|
| **Glen:** | They're all right; they're
a bit dull though.
|
| **David:** | No no look you don't slag
off the interviewers favourite band.
(Laughter) That is not clever, meet coda a bunch of right
fucking arrogant cunts.
|
| **Glen:** | I mean I saw them
supporting Muse, and at the Falcon last year one of their first
gigs and er, as I say they're alright
|
| **Me:** | Chris talks a lot more
now, they are a lot more confident.
|
| **Mark:** | Sorry to interrupt but
time for a bar break.
|
|
At this point Glen and me continue to talk
about Coldplay. Conversation goes back to bands and live
performances when Mark comes back, most is inaudible.
|
| **Glen:** | At this point our guitar
tech Chaz is beating up our guitar player ha ha. So what other
bands do you like?
|
|
More conversation about bands a lot about
how great Soulwax are.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer, I'm going to see
Radiohead I mean I love Radiohead, I remember them from years and
years ago and I'm such a fan, but I'm not going to enjoy it.
(Laughter with puzzled look.) I'm gonna be standing there
watching them and saying like can you do like something to excite
me.
|
| **David:** | Yer but would they be the
same, like would they
|
| **Me:** | I couldn't imagine them
jumping up and down and like.
|
| **David:** | Yer exactly could you
imagine Thom Yorke going "All Right Let's Rock!"
|
| **Glen:** | They use to though that's
the whole point
|
| **David:** | And then they started
selling millions and millions of records though.
|
| **Glen:** | No yer I think we want to
bring back, just a bit of that performance back. A bit of
that Bowie sort of glitter.
|
| **Me:** | I mean I've seen the
manics live and they're
|
| **Glen:** | Yer yer Nicky Wire
|
| **Me:** | Yer when he just jumps
around and goes skipping across the stage and stuff, it is
entertaining.
|
| **David:** | Yer I don't just mean all
of that energy shit I mean Glen does that brilliantly, I mean
bring that real sort of performance.
|
| **Glen:** | One thing though I can't
get an erection while playing,
|
| **David:** | What?
|
| **Glen:** | Yer even when there's
these like fucking fit girls like at the Peel club right in the
front row I still can't, I mean I've always wanted to be there
and be like I'm playing and I'm sexually aroused. Anyway Carry
on.
|
| **Me:** | I mean what I don't like
is when you see a band and they don't even acknowledge the crowd,
they don't even introduce a song or stuff, I mean I saw Terris
and they were absolutely crap their singer looks about twelve he
just came on stage didn't even acknowledge the crowd, he just
danced a bit and then fucked off and we were like okay...
|
| **David:** | Yer I think it's
important, cos like your on stage and you've got a load of people
who have paid money and its up to you to make sure that y'know
you create an atmosphere and y'know and you can only create an
atmosphere, and the best way is the easiest way, and our, I mean
what we do best is to kinda pose.
|
| **Me:** | Anyway My Vitriol you hate
them don't you? (To Glen)
|
| **Mark:** | My Vitriol, Oh God yer he
does hate them.
|
| **Glen:** | I hate them more than any
other band since I was a kid.
|
| **David:** | Have you heard us before?
Do you like us at all? By the way you
two are getting on with what your music tastes are you must
fucking think we are shit?
|
| **Glen:** | No no no, musically I
actually do like them. But I know My Vitriol and I throw Som out
last week
|
| **Me:** | Argh I love Som I'm just
gonna go now. (Glen and myself continue to talk about My Vitriol,
when my brother interrupts...)
|
| **Simon:** | I'm sorry but they have to
have the best name ever (points to a poster saying Fister)
|
| **Glen:** | Yer they're friends of
mine
|
| **David:** | Fister, anyway we should
stop slagging off other bands...
|
| **Glen:** | Yer well I'll give you the
truth I don't care who I offend, when I offend them. Yer their
songs I mean 'Cemented Shoes' was a good song, and I heard their
album and it sounds quite nice, but they are Foo Fighters by
numbers and...
|
| **Me:** | Yer they're Nirvana.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer between me and you
yer, but not the tape recorder....
(A few moments later) Now
there should be bands that you love and bands that you hate. I
personally want to be a band that you either love or you hate
them.
|
| **Me:** | Like King Adora.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer exactly, now I think
they're excellent, yer I think King Adora are, yer well my point
is What is the point of being a band that people think are okay?
I don't want to be remembered on my gravestone as Glen the
drummer from Coda, they were okay... Do you now what I mean, I
don't want to be the beautiful south I wanna be. You see I worked
with the Manics for 8yrs and they are a band you either love or
you hate them.
|
| **Me:** | So many of my friends hate
them and I absolutely adore them.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer I know loads of people
who hate them and I really like them, I like them as guys and I
like their music. So y'know I know loads of people who hate them
and that's great that's how rock 'n' roll should be.
|
| **Me:** | It's all about extremes
|
| **Glen:** | Exactly, yer that's
right... (short pause) I y'know even though I say love us or
hate us I don't care but I always like to be liked.
|
|
Conversation moves on to the Bloodhound
gang and 'the bad touch'
|
| **Glen:** | Do you like it?
It's so eighties and I see these skate kids who
love it, and they like it because it provokes a reaction, like
aargh and I'm like I like it. My friends right like when it comes
on go "this is soo bad" and I'm like this is excellent.
(Glen starts to sing) "You and me baby we ain't nothing but
mammals..."
|
| **Me:** | It's awful, it makes me
cringe, not as much as toploader make me cringe though.
|
| **Glen:** | Right now that is a band I
walk from here to Scotland bare foot to fight. I despise
Toploader.
|
| **Me:** | I wouldn't cross the
street to piss on them if they were on fire.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer yer yer, if you want
to put that on tape I will gladly get in the ring with all of
Toploader.
|
| **Me:** | My friends told me that at
V they want me to see Toploader, I told them that there is no
fucking way I am seeing them, I would rather paint my arse yellow
and play it as a bongo.
|
| **Glen:** | (Laughter) I like that, paint
my arse yellow and play it as a
bongo. I like it but um any band with a perm in the year 2000.
|
| **Me:** | Dancing in the moonlight
just arrgh, I can't think of any other band I hate more, I would
rather listen to four hours of Slipknot.
|
| **Glen:** | I quite like Slipknot
|
| **Me:** | Right I'm off.
|
| **Chris:** | I think Muse are good
|
| **Glen:** | Yer they're a band you
either love or hate aren't they? Got their album
|
| **Me:** | Yer
|
| **Simon:** | No I've got their album,
you just pinch it
|
| **Me:** | It's what you're there
for.
|
| **Glen:** | I love Placebo as well; I
saw Placebo and my old band played together so I remember them
from many many years ago. They're a good band; in fact they are a
great band.
|
| **Mark:** | Hey you'll like the
headline band tonight. Keane. They sound a bit like er...
|
| **Glen:** | Travisy
Coldplay...they're all right they're good.
|
| **Me:** | I think there are only so
many times you can see a band like Travis though. I saw them at
Cambridge, before the release of 'the
man who' and they're gigs well Cambridge gigs are always a bit
boring. There was like no one dancing or moving at all, Apart
from me, but it did get me noticed by both Dougie and Fran. Even
my mates weren't dancing and I was like dancing away not giving a
fuck. I just can't stand going to a gig and just standing still.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer we in fact I hope
tonight will be different but at our last London show, we got
err... we had just sort of err sold out and people had come to
see us because of our single and they just stood there like that
(makes shocked face), and I don't know if it was cos I was
wearing a dress or, they didn't like my legs or whatever but they
just stood there going (another shocked face) and I was like
fucking hell, and like afterwards they were going that was great
and we're like... but through the whole thing they just stood
there and like can you jump? I mean some people appreciate loud
music.
|
| **Me:** | I'm like wanting to jump
around.
|
| **Glen:** | Yer exactly, music is so
powerful you should feel you can do whatever you want. No I'm the
man who wakes up and puts Abba on and dances around my flat.
|
| **Chris:** | Yer in his pants
|
| **Glen:** | Yeeerr, in my pants, yer
y'know what I mean (Yer) Yer good on you, if it makes you
feel good then, then feel good enjoy it.
|
| **Me:** | I'll have to try that one
tomorrow.
|
| **Glen:** | In your pants Abba or the
Carpenters.
|
| **Mark:** | He has every single
Carpenters album ever made including the Christmas album.
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| **Glen:** | If you listen to the
Christmas album in July it's kinda a nice sort of surreal feeling.
I'm a vinyl junkie
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| **Me:** | I tell you what one of the
bands I do like at the moment is Lowgold, they are fantastic.
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| **Mark:** | Yer their song 'In Amber'
isn't it. That's a great song
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| **Me:** | Apparently they're wankers
though. Yer you know the Highbury Garage?
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| **Mark:** | Yer I love the Garage
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| **Me:** | You love it? I hate the
Garage.
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| **Glen:** | It's good when it's full.
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| **Me:** | Too squashed too many
people, too hot I can never see a thing.
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| **Mark:** | Yer the stage is too low.
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| **Me:** | Anyway the bassist stood
with his back to the audience the entire night.
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| **Glen:** | I like that, see I really
like them already.
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| **Me:** | Yer he went on stage,
looked at the crowd and turned around, and the singer was meant
to have sounded awful as well. Anyway a proper question quickly
before the tape runs out, Is it weird like hearing your songs
being played on the radio?
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| **Glen:** | Yer it is I remember once
going into Karen Millen, cos I buy a lot of my clothes from Karen
Millen, anyway they were playing 'Bleed Together' and I was like
that's me. And the woman was like singing along, and I was like
do you know who I am, that's me. So yer it is weird.
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**Tape runs out**
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Okay so now you know more about Coda,
but what are they like live I hear you cry! Live shows for Coda
are all about three things: Performance, posing and style, and
this gig was certainly no exception. The set list ran something
along the lines of 'Wonderful Day', 'Art Is Dead', 'Beautiful
Fool', their next single 'Superstar', 'Doubleonefive', 'Poor
Boy', debut single, 'Bleed Together' and finally finished with
'Thick Skin'. The set was played with such confident, chic, flair
and with that glittering edge now sadly lacking from the majority
of bands today, that even the most cold-hearted, narrow-minded,
pin-pushing, crack-smoking music critics would have been more
than impressed. The set certainly left me more than satisfied, as
well as renewed not only my faith in live performances, but made
me question some of the mediocrity around today. If these guys
can turn the style on at what seems to be the click of a finger
why can't others? That night it wasn't just the copious amounts
of alcohol drunk that left me head buzzing, it was something much
greater than that. Roll on 'Superstar' is all I can say...
So what did the band think of the gig
then...
"It's always a pleasure...it
felt very good!!! Great to play out a packed show after a few
months, remembered we can still do it...!" Mark.
In no way can I disagree with that, in
my view Coda's performance wasn't just polished it was glossed
with style!
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