| Gary Kemp Interview 6 |
| NM – Hearing your song ‘True’ in a movie. How cool was that? GK – That was so cool to have the great king of alternative movies to be singing my song. I love that, and there is something about Drew Barrymore and that song as well. Because not only is it in the ‘Wedding Singer’ where she gets to kiss the guy, it’s in Charlie’s Angels, in the kissing scene. So I don’t think it has anything to do with Drew. I remember when I went to live in LA in 1990, when my brother and I decided we were gonna do movies over there. I remember Martin and I being at the traffic lights and this girl jumps out of a car and shouts, ‘Hey, stop guys, stop!’, and dived in the car and it was Drew Barrymore. It was the most extraordinary event for me because I had never met her, and she was telling us what a big fan of the band she was, and The Krays movie especially. So I don’t know whether that has anything to do with her, but regardless of Drew, that was a great honour. |
| NM – Lets see… following up on that comment, taxi driver 123 says, “I loved you guys in ‘The Krays.’” Do you guys have any more plans to do any acting opposite each other in the future? GK – Yeah, we always talk about it and I think we would really love to do it. My brother is really busy in his TV series. It has been talked about, but at the moment we have no script. So if that taxi driver has got a script under his arm, as most New York taxi drivers have, and he thinks that there is a part in it for the two of us, then he should get it off to you. NM – Okay, second last question here wants to know what do you think of Napster. GK – It’s interesting. I think that anything that can keep music alive right now is important because like I said earlier in this interview, I am concerned about the way that kids will want to spend their money on buying a computer game. If I gave twenty bucks to my kid, he is more likely to go and buy a film than he is to buy a record, and that worries me. I think we need to keep music alive. If keeping music alive means it needs to have some kind of illegality about it to give it a flavour to make it exciting, a bit like when pirate radio was happening in England in the 60s, then its cool. I don’t think that is going to stop people going out and buying the record if they like the track. The record store is a great meeting place, the place where you go and say, ‘I belong. I belong to this band’. That is gonna buy me the record and that record is a share in the lifestyle. That is not gonna go away, but anything that can help music be exciting and interesting and slightly dangerous even, has got to be good for the whole thing. |
| NM – Last questions. Over the years you have written and performed a number of fantastic love songs and which one strikes the biggest chord with you. GK – Are you talking about ones that I have written or love songs in general out there? NM – No, love songs which you have personally written and performed. GK – Well, I mean it’s so dull for me to say ‘True’, but I can’t deny that that seems to have got under peoples skin. But for me, as I said earlier, ‘Through The Barricades’, which is a love song is really my favourite. There is a song ‘She Loved Like Diamond’, which is a very early Spandau track from about 1981 which is on The Greatest Hits album, and I enjoy that track, and also ‘I’ll Fly For You’. NM – Excellent! Well Gary, I want to thank you so much for taking time out. GK – Thank you for having me on. It’s been a pleasure even though its been kind of weird talking to people this way. It’s also kind of exciting as well. NM – It is indeed. Best of luck at rehearsal tomorrow, and continued luck in the future. GK – Thank you. All the best. Bye. |
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