A photo of Kenickie at The Brat Awards
ON THE COUCH from the NME with Lauren Laverne
What song describes you best?
"'Queen Bitch' by David Bowie."
What is heaven?
"Being able to do what you want all the time."
What is hell?
"Maths and physics."
What is your earliest memory?
"Being pushed in a buggy wearing a plastic raincoat that had a little window in it for my face. We were going to pick up my brother at school. It was raining and I remember thinking, 'Aha, it is raining but I am warm and dry.' So my first memory is a feeling of smugness. It was the basis for the rest of my life."
What is your greatest fear?
"Being alone."
Who is your all time hero?
"Mark E Smith."
What's the most trouble you've been in?
"Marie and I got totally lost when we first moved to London. we were drunk in Shepherd's Bush and didn't know how to get home or use the tubes. But I've never been in real trouble because I never get caught."
Who was your first love?
"Primal Scream."
What's your greatest talent?
"I can make my tounge ripple and my ears wiggle."
Upon whom would you most like to exact revenge, how and why?
"On anyone who hurts any of my family or who's nasty to Marie and Emmy. I'd like to have them killed. But usually I just hate people and that usually works. I've got a real wicked streak and I just will bad things to happen to people. It speeds karma and they always take a fall really soon."
What's your most treasured possesion?
"Three big frames that have loads of photos in them of everywhere I've been since I was born."
What have you most regretted doing while drunk?
"Going up and talking to people I admire. Going off with horrible blokes. And in Janurary I got really drunk and fell over, which I really regret now because I have a big scar on my leg and everyone always asks about it."
What can you cook?
"I do brilliant mash."
What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?
"When I was little my mum was always telling me, 'Live for today and do whatever makes you happy.' It's real hippy, child-of-the-'60s advice, but it's good"
Can you read music?
"A little."
If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
"I'd go everywhere scandalous that you're not usually allowed to go. I would go into people's houses and have a look round. I'd go into Downing Street and Parliament. And I'd go into the bloke's toilets and laugh at them"
What are your final three wishes?
"To be content. To achieve everything I can. And to never be ugly. Although I guess I should wish for everyone I love to be happy; that's more important than me not being a dog."
April Long
World Cup thing from the Melody Maker.
Which footbller would you like to go out with?
Lauren: "I was asked out by a Sunderland footballer, but I said no. I'd like to go out with Cantona, or George Best."
Compare Kenickie to a football team...
Marie: "We're not like a team - we're like George Best. We'll peak early, descend into an alchoholic stupor, marry a string of dolly birds and you'll only ever hear of us again when we disgrace ourselves on 'Wogan'."
What would you call your World Cup song?
M: "You're All A Bunch Of Bastards (Except england)."
Predict the score of the Scotland v Brazil game.
Emmy-Kate: "3-1 to Scotland."
Which World Cup side do you rate highest?
M: Columbia.
Who's going to get to the final? Predict the score.
M:"Germany 2 Brazil 1."
Q&A From The Guide, The Guardian
How are you?
Tired and wobbly-legged from carrying furniture up the many stairs of Emmy-Kate's new house and just wobbly-legged about the impending huge success of our new record (touch wood).
What's on your rider?
On bottle gin, one bottle vodka, one bottle whisky, two crates beer (minimum), assorted snacks in the shape of household pets (cat fig rolls, goldfish toffee etc.), credit cards, Aqua records (except Turn Back Time), four horse tranquilliser darts.
What's the worst record you've ever heard?
This month it was Kiss The Rain by that Billie myres. The worst record of all time is Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, but tommorow I might hate How Am I Supposed To Live Without You by Michael Bolton more, who knows. Pop music is constantly evolving new and more grotesque forms.
What would you be prepared to listen to time and again?
Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous. Fantastic all the way through. Phil Lynott says in the middle of the gig, "Have any of the girls got Irish in them?" You can guess the rest. Fantastic.
What's your stangest touring experience?
The day the hell's Angel's turned up; the man with the strange bandage who wanted a three-in-a-bed sex romps with our crew; the time when we were supported by TV astronomer Partrick Moore and hundreds of others.
Your greatest fear?
That I'll be kidnapped by bounty hunters hungry for power and riches...and moths, i can't stand moths - the corpses of murdered butterflies flapping their way to hell. Bastards.
Is there one piece of critism that sticks in your mind?
Someone once said that I should wear my hair down more often to improve the acoustics of my head. He was a mad fella though. Actually someone once called us unprofessional which was bad. We're as professional as the next bunch of chancers.
ON THE PISS, Lauren Laverne of Kenickie
"One of my best memories was when we did Ant & Dec's Christmas Special in Newcastle. the drinking spree started when Roy wood out of Wizzard helped us smuggle some bottles of wine from Channel 4. He's a brilliant bloke in a 'laydeez' kind of way, and he took us and the rest of Wizzard down to the pub where we stole some beer. we were playing on a boat and weren't supposed to have any alcohol, but we smuggled it on in water bottles. By the time it was over, we convinced Ant & dec to come out with us. We went to this hotel and at one point I said to Dec, 'Look! Look! It's him out of Ultrasound,' and I can't tell you what he said because it was to sweary. I found out that Ant likes Sheryl Crow, and I was calling Dec 'Fonzie'. The night ended with Marie having a massive argument with Roland Rivron, which I was very embarrassed about."
Kenickie: now we are six
KENICKIE have recruited two new members, drummer Graham Christie and keyboard player Dot Allen.
They will be making their live debut on May 26 at Manchester Hop & Grape, the day after the release of the band's new single 'I Will Fix You'.
Graham was introduced to Kenickie by a friend of the band. Dot has played keyboards with Blur and Pulp. Both new recruits are Scottish.
"They're semi-permanent members, like marker pen or hair colour," singer Lauren joked. "the rehersals are going very well, we've got lots of new equiptment that we've had to learn to use, but it's all under control."
Original drummer Johnny X is now playing guitar, leaving Lauren ree to concentrate on singing. Kenickie release their second album, 'Get In!', in August.
After their first gig at Manchester, the band play ...blah blah blah...
What Emmy-Kate thinks of Xfm being sold to Capital, from the Melody Maker, May 16th 98.
"I actually hope they'll make it more like Capital. I mean, maybe they'll play less indie, but that might not be such a bad thing. As long as it doesn't get into that whole rigid playlist thing, Xfm will be fine. Hopefully they'll still play Kenickie."
Asked if she would go on Capital's Doctor Fox Indie Show, she replied: "Yes. But if he isn't a real doctor I would have my reservations. You always hear Doctor Fox in minicabs so I would go on, cos I'd be gaurenteed to hear myself."
THE 36TH COOLEST PERSON IN ROCK - MARIE DU SANTIAGO
Earthy Northan wit, koolest of the very cool Kenickers and a canny lass to boot. Sunderland's answer to Marylin Monroe.
COOLEST MOMENT: The ability to silence jealous hecklers with a single stare and a toss of the hair.
Emmy-Kate's best and worst buys (From Radio 1's Trade Update)
"I think the best thing I ever bought was at the age of about ten, possibly, a My Little Pony, that was no ordinary pony because I think it had a unicorn horn and I think actually it blinked as well. It had big long eyelashes and it sort of blinked if you shook it about and that was a very good buy. My current worst buy is a T.V. areial because my house hasn't got one and I've spent three days dancing around the living room with bits of coathangers and the arieal, trying to make the tele work, and it was a complete waste of money. Still I can't see Brookside, it's terrible."
Lauren Laverne on John Peel
"Y'know we always listened to the shows on er, erm, the radio when we were like growing up. Like a lot of the records we liked weren't knid of represented in like radio and, er not in a lot of shops as well and quite hard to get so we'd always hear like the latest stuff through Peel. And the definitive moment, I remember, like in the sort of path of, I realized I was really, really in a band when erm, when we're driving to this gig and me dad was driving like all of us in one tiny car right, with like all the gear and erm like our song came on the radio, and he just went 'and this is Kenickie' y'know in his husky whisper as he does. And we just all went 'WOAH'."
Who would Kenickie give the NME Godlike Genius Brat Award too?
Emmy-Kate Montrose: Elvis Presley
"I'd give the award to Elvis, but unfortunately he couldn't make it this evening, so he'll probably be overlooked"
Lauren Laverne: Iggy Pop
"Iggy Pop remains firm and talented after all these years. God bless you, father!"
A photo of Kenickie at The Brat Awards
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