The Werty interview


A Riot On Eastbourne Pier, Hi, and Smack !
hold on - we had quite enough of that with the sax playing dominatrix in Sydney...

Werty: Dear Sensible, now I Make a List of Questions that you at last will say, OH NO, not this torture!

1) Is your brother, the Burns that play with the Stiff Little Finger ?

Sensible: no.... hey, that first one was easy !

2) When you got up in the morning what do you think ?

Sensible: Wot - this morning ? Hmm... let me see - oh yeah, I thought "shall I go down the shop for a tin of beans or eat some Weetabix ?" I chose the Weetabix, an excellant product that Im very loyal to - possibly summat to do with the fact that they payed me and me Auntie Sadie handsomely to do a wacky TV ad for 'em in the 80s..... burp! Bryn from San Francisco (Phil Collins with a wig) is gonna post the whole glorious 30 seconds of it up on the net sometime soon !!!

3) Have you got a Car, if yes tell me the model ?

Sensible: I gotta van to cart me gear about (what little I ve got left of THAT after working with Mr Dodgy...) but the engine exploded on the motorway when I was travelling up to Sheffield to produce a single for Velodrome 2000 - the ultimate low-fi band a year or so back.... and the fire brigade told me I was lucky to have got out alive !!! Some chums of Dracs (Andy and Pandora) took pity on yer old mate Cap and gave me an OLD Vauxhall Cavalier that gets me about in a fashion.... but Im actually more of a train buff if truth is known.

4) Are you more o less sad like MrBean?

Sensible: No - not so much Mr Bean...... more like Norman Wisdom with all that chaos and confusion that surrounds him in his films n' that. Thats a bit like wot me lifes like I reckon.

5) How many guitar have you ever smashed in your life ?

Sensible: Yeah yeahyeah.....alright guv...

6) Who was Melody Lee ?

Sensible: She was a character from Bunty comic which I used to read when going through me 'girlie phases'. They used to have a nice 'cut out wardrobe' page on the back page which is now a feature of the new Star Girl magazine which is also quite a good read - apart from the boy band garbage.

7) Tell me the real reason of your Damned Departure on 1984 !

Sensible: I had this bloody slavedriver of a manager who didnt give me a day off if he could possibly avoid it - Id sometimes do breakfast TV, fly out and do something in Europe and then straight back for a gig in Britain that evening. I bust a gut trying to do the Damned and ALSO my 'solo career' but its no wonder the gruelling schedule drove me into the sodding ground - eh playmates..... with the result that I jumped ship.... glug, etc....

8) You had to choose: Genesis 1968/75, 75/94 , today

Sensible: Blimey Werty - cancha finish yer bloomin sentances, eh?.... anyway... if Im not too mistaken you're asking me opinion of old as opposed to new Genesis - right ? Well it'll come as no surprise Im sure to hear that Im not overkeen on the current line-up but believe it or not they DID make one rather good album before they crawled right up their own bumholes.... it was their 1st effort entitled 'From Genesis to Revelation' and is full of cosmic tape phasing and other psychedelic nonsense... and relatively free of stupid drumming it is too - which cant be bad.... knoworrimean !!!

9) The Last but not the Least: One Day I ask you Come in ITALY and in SARDINIA ! I Offer you italian wine (Malvasia, Vernaccia, you know?) So I Can travel you in the most pitoresque (strange no?) place of our Island an we can Sing to the Moon: I JUST CAN'T BE HAPPY TODAY ! Isn't WONDERFUL !

Sensible: Blimey - the Sardinia and the wine bit sounds good.... but I usually sing 'Wake me up before I go when Im sloshed !

Werty:HI, CRAZY CAPTAIN, from WERTY THE MAKER OF THE ITALIAN DAMNED SITE

Sensible: Gawd bless ya Werty........... Genesis 68-75 indeed !


Werty 1998