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"We Were Playing Shite, but the Crowd Was Amazing!" | |
Fran Healy's verdict
How was the gig?
You get all these mad emotions, like the first time you go out with someone. I was totally overwhelmed by it, playing in front of my family. They know everything about you, you don't need to tell them anything. It was dead, dead emotional in bits of it. Like "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" was just amazing, and Dougie doing his little song was brilliant and everyone jumping during "U16 Girls." We haven't played that song for a year and a half or something. It was great, actually.
There were rumors that Lulu would be guesting with you tonight...
The solo spot seems to be a special treat for Dougie.
How was Party in the Park?
Isn't it time you made a Satanic pact with Michael Fish to stop all this weather malarkey?
Melody Maker
Ah, it was all right. The thing was, the gig was playing in two segments. There was us onstage playing shite, and there was the crowd being amazing. Scottish crowds are the most amazing crowds in the f***ing world. But I had a bollocks gig, man. I couldn't hear a thing. The sound was so bad, I just couldn't get my head around it at all. You have gigs like that, it's one of those things. I'll be OK tomorrow, but it's fresh in my mind at the minute.
Disappointed that the problems occurred at a homecoming gig?
Not disappointed because it was a homecoming gig, that's the thing. You're just disappointed because you really want to give people the best thing you can possibly give. We're all trying too hard. I think there's something wrong with my pedals or something wrong with my guitars, and you're trying to get a grip on something, you're trying to grab it, and it keeps going away from you. But it was actually amazing.
Oh my god! Nah, we met Lulu at the Oasis show in Radio City, and she's dead, dead nice. As she talks, her voice becomes more and more Glaswegian! At Glastonbury, they said we'd turned up in a stretch limo, and it was all bullshit.
Dougie's a star. If anyone in this band is a star, it's Dougie. It was just the right time to let Dougie go out. You've got to get the right sort of audience for that. He dealt with it admirably and it gave me a chance to see what it looks like not doing it. That was a great bit, standing watching him and going, "Weeeeey!"
That was funny. We made it rain there. We made Sisqo slip and fall on his arse! We came offstage, and we heard this pitter-patter. Apparently, it all went pear-shaped. It was mad--so many young kids, all that manic energy.
They should send us to the Sudan on a rain-making mission. The Indians used to do rain dances and that, and it's that mad affirmation thing where if enough people say the word "rain," then it's gonna rain. And it has! The week that the single charted was the rainiest week since records began. So I think that might break this hex.
July 12, 2000
Words: Mark Beaumont
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