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Joseph from Blyth Power have answered some questions from me. I really like their style and I have done that the latest 25 years. Here they answer my questions in October 2014
-No – only I (Joseph) remain from the original line up. The band has changed many times
-Not a lot I’d really want to share – I build model aeroplanes and photograph German Locomotives. Ben and Annie like to play online fantasy wargames and Jerry drives trains. Beyond that we are all interested in the music and everyone has compromised their lifestyle to some extent to allow us to be in the band…
-I don’t listen to punk music at all – in fact rarely any music. I like Patti Smith, Lou Reed, some English folk rock – anything if it is a good song
-Mostly intelligent people between 30 -50 I guess. No particular type. We don’t seem to fit with any fashion
-We press 1000 CDs at a time and the first print goes fairly soon. Hard to judge but now we sell digital downloads too. Stuff keeps selling whenever we play so it never really ends
-Definitely yes. People like to have something in their hands
-I have not bought a record in over 30 years. No idea what the last one was. If I wanted anything I used to tape it off as friend
-Patti Smith – Horses The Jam - Setting Sons – Noel Coward – The Master Velvet Underground – Andy Warhol Alistair Hulett – Dance of the Underclass Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Tom Robinson Band – Power in the Darkness That’s about it really – I rarely ever listened to a whole LP as most artists have very poor quality control and dilute their records with stuff that they should not have released. I preferred compilation tapes
-Lots I expect but I don’t follow the music scene so would not know
-Not so much while the children are young. Maybe once a month at present
-English Folk rock
-Folk-rock seems to stick. Best quote ever was ‘Blyth Power at full cry make The Levellers sound like Peter Paul and Mary’
-It was something I did 30 years ago. At the time it meant everything but I do not spend my life looking back
-No
-Very little to be honest. I have more friends in Finland who tell me it is a splendid place – and much cheaper to live there.
-I do not know any at all
-I wouldn’t. More than 2 bands on one bill is a pain in the arse to organise. But if I had to I would do it with people I knew personally and respected rather than strangers I could not trust to behave in a professional manner
How is it to live in England today? Politically? -It’s fine – everything costs too much and it is full of idiots who are scared of Europe, but we get by…
-Worst is the football and drinking that is a way of life for so many Best is the freedom to act and speak
-I would re-nationalise the railways
-People, places and situations that surround me
-No idea – probably Death went to bed with a Lady. It has no subtext whatsoever
-No, nothing
Do you think that music and lyrics acan change any listeners life? -Yes of course – I remember Tom Robinson’s ‘Sing if you’re Glad to be Gay’ did that for many…
-Quite often they want Ixion or Jct Signal. My favourites tend to change. Currently ‘Going Down with Alice’ is my number one
-More CD releases and keep on playing whenever we can
-Nothing else – just to write more songs. I have more books planned too
-Don’t pay attention to people in bands – they have nothing clever to say
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