[Mael-list] Interview with Martin Gordon

[Anne Hutchins]

 From the allsparks.com Forum...

An interview with Martin Gordon: http://www.piley.blogspot.com/

Martin gets a bit snarky about Sparks and their fans. Excerpts:

They also weren’t keen on looking at some of the songs you were writing 
at that time is that right?

'Yeah, I think "weren’t keen" is a very appropriate way of describing 
it. John Hewlett said recently that he felt he rather fucked up as a 
manager at the time, because a manager should have the confidence to 
smack his protégé around the ears and say “stop being so stupid, you’ve 
got someone who is contributing here”. To quote him he says they "felt 
threatened", whatever that means. Not physically, although they were 
threatened physically by my friend Chris Townson who once punched 
Russell in the face over dinner. Russell was being snooty, as he often 
was, about Chris's band Jook. These were the days before Chris had 
acquired anger management skills, so he said "don't you take the piss 
out my band" and BAM hits Russell in the face. whereupon Russell burst 
into tears and ran off. ….It always makes me smile..'

And what about the Sparks fans, how do you think they feel about you? 
are they appreciative of what you did or do you think there is a clash 
of loyalties there too?

'I have the impression that my 'fans', for want of a better word, are 
not from the Sparks community. I remember there was a rather nasty 
personal attack on me on one Sparks message board... I think I made it 
worse by joining in under another name, agreeing that I was a total and 
utter bastard and should be shot! but still the sentiment was 
unpleasant. Perhaps the fact that I am not a great ‘Mole’ lover is to 
blame. Or the fact that I find the aforementioned story of Chris 
Townson hitting Russell very funny! Quite why the fans insist on using 
the term 'the boys' about a couple of sixty year-old men leads me to 
think that some of them are not really all there.'


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