Much Music Interview with Bush-April 17, 1997. Q=questions from Rick the Temp; B=unidenitified band member (talking off camera); R,N,D,G=three guesses (ok, four). Q:How are you guys? B:good Q:now this is your first time at MM as Bush. B:it is, we've only been Bush an hour R:we left our x behind Q:you left it behind? B:yes, we buried it, the ghost of the x R:we've exorcised it Q:yeah, yeah; you guys looks a little tired-are you a little tired? N:you don't look so good yourself (laughter) G:we didn't have the benefit of your make-up artist (laughter) Q:is that right-did you guys get in early this morning? D:4:30-yeah, late last night, about 4:30 Q:if you feel like you're gonna fall off the stools, we can bring the sleeping bags out-we can do the interview right here(pointing to floor) N:make the questions interesting and we'll be (gestures with arms)wow(?)lively(?) G:we're all married Q:now the whole x thing-I'm not going to talk about this again N:(groan) Q:you're never going to hear this again from me. We're going to take a look at a a clip of what happened this morning, just down the street here, let's check it out B:ok clip of press conference: Domenic Troiano removing a cardboard 'x' from a sign and posing with band Q:so as we saw, that was the taking of the 'x' from bush x G: I thought the cellotape looked really good R: yeah, stylish (laugh) D: we're now little wisps of four bits of cellotape Q: now, do you have the 'x' with you? R: It's in the car G: I have it, I have it Q: do you feel happy with what happened? G: Yeah, it's really good. It was good to meet Domenic Troiano. It's good to sort of deal with it, get it done. He's the guy who originally had the band called Bush from the 70's, and um, and er, it was just good to resolve it, you know. It had been in the hands of lawyers and stuff, er, which was crazy because, you know, we're just sort of, we're just a band who wanted to be called Bush and it happened that he was called Bush in 1975 or something... Q:the 70's G;yeah, the 70's...so, it's good, it's resolved now and done. And you know, it's very cool. Q: so is it fair to say now that, er, everything is zen? G: (pause, puzzled look), er (laugh), um, (laugh) Q: I do my own writing too (laughter) R: do yer? I'd get help, quick (laugh) D(?): yeah-you shouldn't Q: you're touring. You've been touring with Veruca Salt. How's that been so far? G: really good; good fun R: good, nice people. We have fun D: we're having a laugh R: we have a laugh; every night nearly now, they're popping in and having a drink and chatting about how the stuff's been...and we saw them in New York at a party, had a party in NY and they came out G: It's always good to take good bands out and have, you know...we're going out later with Jesus Lizard, so, er, there's that going on, there's, er, yeah, it's really good. It's good to have good bands. Q: would you like to say hello to the fans here. Have you been skipping school to meet Bush?(scream)-there they are. Very dedicated fans...another reason why you're here is because just a little while ago we had a contest on MM with a prize to come and meet you guys and come and see your show and she's here G: and to live with you for a week (laugh) Q: do you mind that? D: no Q: here she is...Danielle and her friend Heather G: awww, look D: well done G: well done-what did you have to do? Danielle: write in with my name and stuff like that...(shakes everyone's hand) *Swallowed video played* Q: Gavin, we're here now. Gavin was screwing me up-he was counting different numbers, 9,7,6-do you do that a lot? Do you tend to screw people up? G: er , sorry? (laughs) Q: now he's playing with my head (laugh). The Bush- sorry, I said I wouldn't talk about this again, but the Bush x thing... R: there goes the ball (Gavin rolls a football off camera) G: your prop's gone Q: oh, the ball's gone D: you've only been calling us that for 5 minutes, but anyway Q: sorry; at first, when that came out, I was hearing, I thought they were saying Bush axe...Bush axe, you know, but infact it was the letter x (band is nodding and looking at him like he's an idiot) R: you bought a more expensive radio eventually D: yeah (smile) Q: the sound wasn't coming in clearly. It's going to be tough for me as a Canadian and I know other Canadians, to stop saying x at the end there R: you're gonna have to, you know, it's something you'll have to work on G: it wouldn't be the end of the world if you carried on calling us Bush x, so- Q: it wouldn't be the end of the world? G: no- a period of adjustment's needed Q: I think what my boss will do if I mention Bush x is he'll chuck the soccer ball at my head N: go on, say it, see what happens Q: Bush x R: there it comes! (ball hits Rick on the head) N: woah! good header! (claps)(band laughs) Q: that's the second time I bit my lip! R: that's live TV folks Q: let's jump on to, er (band laughing; in background Gavin mumbles "ask us how we got our x. RT : "sorry what?" G: oh, you, er whatever)...Let's talk about Greedy Fly-you did some acting in it? G: (blows raspberry) yes Q: are you, er, do you want to get into this? G: am I very sad? Yes!(laughing) Q: yes, you're very sad-what's your motivation? G: my motivation was it was fun working with those guys. I'd never done anything like that before and, um, he was a sort of Harvey Kietel look-a-like, he'd just been doing a Shakespeare play the previous night with his wife. So it was good fun working with them and it was just funny. I just kept giggling, it was just, whatever, it was fun to do. Q: it was good, it was really good G: it was a laugh Q: good acting, congratulations G: well, whatever (smile) Q: it was the eyebrow G: I gave good eyebrow, right Q: it was a long video-the production...are we going to see more of Bush doing, to see Bush doing more of these longer videos? G: we stripped it down specifically after that because we, like, want to do quick, sort of low-key videos; it's fun to do one but it maybe is a bit immoral if you do it every single time because it's a little bit extravagant. But it's good fun to provide a soundtrack to a small movie, put it like that N: it's a very good trailer for his next movie (laughs) Q: fantastic, fantastic. Now I've been reading this magazine here (pulls out April 97 Details with Gwen Stefani on cover); er, see this girl here on the cover, do you know who that is? G: yeah, of course I know who that is, yes Q: er, I was going to jump right into it, er-are you guys going to get married, or...? G: er Q: has there been talk with you two about...? G: there has been, er, I don't think being on tour and getting married are definately not sorts of things...but I don't think I'm going to get married at the moment;I am going to Las Vegas but I don't think (end of sentence is mumbled) Q: now, how did you guys meet? Were you like working together on a project? G: we took them on tour Q: fantastic, it's a good choice, very good, Gwen, good choice, eh? Gwen Stefani for Gavin ?(some in crowd cheer) N: nice girl, shame about the band Q: cos one of the vj's tried to, you know, smooth her over when she was here-Bill W., but he had no luck, no chance, no chance at all. Talking about acting and all that- G: to smooth it over with her? I'm screwing people, people are smoothing over my girlfriend, what's up with this?! (looking to RT's boss) These questions, don't let him ad lib, you know what I mean, he can't like- Q: (drops magazine) oh sorry, I didn't mean to drop her like that G: that's ok (waving arm) Q: Do you have much time to watch TV or go to films, see movies? G: sure, days off, go and see as much as we can Q: which movies, what are your #1 movies, what would be a movie that's out there now that you'd like to check out? D: Sling Blade G: Sling Blade; the new Wesley Snipes one; The English Patient was really cool, I really love that film. We went to see some really terrible film the other day, um-The Devil's Own-which is a shame cos , um, Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford are just excellent and brilliant to watch but that was a really stupid film-it's a dumb film Q: How does he get by with that Irish accent? G: he's alright on that-it's just the whole premise, the thing of like, er, boiling down 25-27, 8 years of, of, of political trouble and terrorism and murders and bombings and everything down to sort of er, you know, to good looking Brad Pitt-I dunno-it's abit, abit tough, abit of (pause) popcorn to swallow, that was Q: so maybe I won't be checking that one out G: yeah Q: maybe I'll wait til I rent it N: and why not Q: now, you'll be playing at MLG tonight Bush: yeah Q: fantastic. (crowd screams) D: and there's our audience out there (referring to crowd at studio window) G: can they hear everything out there? Can you hear us out there when we speak?(cheer) You're all crazy out there, you're not wearing warm enough clothes, you're all completely mad out there! Q: everyone has Bush flu. Now I had a soccer ball here earlier- R: the one that came off your head, careful Q catches ball Bush: aargh! G: that was so harsh, wasn't it, the way they threw that ball at you? Q: you guys coming from England, do you follow much football? Bush: yes Q throws ball, Dave catches it before it hits Nigel D: ooh, I saved you there (smiling) Q: you've played before? D: yes N: everyone's played D: yeah, we played and our team Chelsea got to the FA Cup finals so, there you go- N: well, their team, not my team G: yours and Robin's D: (to G) your team's Arsenal isn't it? Q: your team is what? G: Arsenal Q: and Nigel. The other team? N: Liverpool-the team that's going to win the League this year Q: they're gonna win? N: (nodding) yeah R: (amused) he thinks they're going to win the League D: we still get our football videos sent out-so we take, er- G: where have they been? N: we've had them for the past three weeks (laugh) R: we've got 'em, we've got 'em, don't you worry (to Gavin) D: (talking to Gavin)...Man United, England... G: England? I don't even know what the result is Q: are you guys thinking of checking out the World Cup in France next year? R: yeah, I'd like to go actually. I think we might just, our career might just about... G: we've been asked to play Q: oh is that right? Really? G: no Q: to play soccer? R: I would love to G: no, no Q: are you still paying, do you still kick a ball around? G: sure, sure, of course; I think I will always kick a ball around. Q: you were playing competitively for awhile, semi-pro and that just ended suddenly- G: no, it ended kind of with doing music and a choice, whatever, the choice was between music and football and, you know, I was sort of decent, alright, with football but thought maybe I could get a bit further with music Q: good choice G: it was a lucky one (laugh); I'd be languishing in the bottom league somewhere R: polishing boots Q: roll concert dates... R: the more the merrier Q: and you'll be coming back to Toronto in July-you love this place G: we love this place-they treat us pretty good Q: the fans are what keep you coming back? G: they're the ones we-you're very nice and everything-come back for, not the press Q: good words, thank you G laughs. Q: Bush x Dave throws ball and hits Rick's head N: it's a dangerous job, this! (thank you's and goodbyes) The End.