We came over in ’98 to test the waters again to play one show at The Garage and there was no press whatsoever, no ads, but the show was sold out and it was super fun. So that was just one of the hits that you take. Then we played the Reading Festival where, in the programme, they gave us a poor preview which is really funny because you think “you’ve paid us all this money.” but we were pretty far up on the bill, still but by ’95 people were kinda over it and a lot of people tend to view music as fashion. MA: Yeah, well, it seemed like we kind of came to the UK pretty regularly up til 1995. MA: It’s a big tour for us, but a really small tour for a regular band.ĭiS: What have your touring schedules been like over the last few years? Since I was about 16 you’ve come over and played a few shows and then finished. I don’t know.I’m not wearing my glasses so everybody looks much younger than they are.ĭiS: The current tour’s quite a big one. We seem to hold onto some of the old farts and pick up new kids along the way. We’ve been big fans for a long time.ĭiS: I saw them down the road at the Forum in March, there was a huge mixture of faces, old and young.
Mark Arm: They’ve been really good.we had the The Vaselines opening for us up in Edinburgh.ĭiS: How were they? Had you played together before? The guys played a show at London's KOKO last Sunday, and we caught up with (mostly) frontman Mark Arm and (some of) guitarist Steve Turner beforehand, to talk changing attitudes, day jobs, the music industry and, most importantly fuzz boxes. Born out of the famous Sub Pop Seattle Grunge sound that dominated the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the band are still going, still making high quality records and still, for want of a better phrase, rockin' and rollin'. The word stalwart may as well have been invented for Mudhoney.
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