E.Y.C. -Express Yourself Clearly
STORY:Sylvia Patterson, Australian "Smash Hits" Magazine, sometime in 1994
Bendy-limbed dancers, top semaphore experts - is there no end to EYC's talents?
TREY
He was born on May 30, 1972, which makes him a dodgy Gemini(except it doesn't)!
"Oh, I don't think so. They're suppposed to be a little...(wobbles hand around in a dodgy manner). They're supposed to be two-faced or like this one minute and something else the next. I'm a level-headed guy, I'm up front, I don't have weird sides to me at all. Honest!"
He's not very tall!
"I'm the tallest - 5'8 and half(i.e 173cm in real talk!). I've never felt like a short guy. God blessed me with a decent body
- it's all there, it works."
He was nearly killed when he was a toddler!
"One day when I was around nine or ten, I was going home from school and I was coming down a hill when I hit some gravel and flipped over the handlebars and landed on my head and split it open - there was blood everywhere! This guy carried me to my house and there was no one home, so I had to go to a neighbour's house and the neighbour called for help but said 'Don't you ever come to me for help again!' Can you believe it? I've just got a big scar here in my hair(proffers head for inspection). I guess I was lucky..."
He blubs when he gets letters from his mum!
"We're a very family-oriented group, we phone home all the time. We've been out for a month now and all of us are so homesick. We just got a care package from home, like our families sent us food and stuff. My mum sent me a card and I just started crying - it was so cute, so cute, just like 'I miss you so much and
I love you so much and I live for your phone calls.' I was just...oh my God, it just killed me."
He cannot cook for toffee!
"I can't cook a damn thing. I can make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I can make a great bowl of cereal! I can't
ever boil rice!"
He really loved his girlfriend and then he went mental and ruined it all!
"I was with this person for two and a half years and I think I kinda scared her away, to be honest. I think she felt I was into
this whole big thing - marriage and the kids - and it started to go wrong. And then the band started to happen and there was
a little jealousy too. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be with her and just her. That's the thing I learned from her,
though, that it was possible for me to love just one person. I didn't know that it was possible for me before. So y'know
there's always something to be learnt."
DAMON
He was born on February 15, 1972 which makes him a dememted Aquarius who has
lots of pals!
"I'm an Aquarian love child! The thing with Aquarians is that they love people
and I'm a people person - we all are
actually! And I'm very open-minded. And that's why this is the greatest job on
earth because you get to meet and make
friends with people from all different cultures from all around the world. At
someone else's expense."
He's not very tall!
"I'm around 5'7"(i.e 170cm) so hey, why d'you think I've got these?(Holds aloft
gigantic platform trainers which he gets
specially made in California, man). I have four pairs of these in different
colours and fabrics. I love my shoes. I have
around...ooh, 15 pairs altogether. I think I do have a shoe obsession actually,
but what do you expect? I'm a dancer! My
feet are the centre of my being!"(Laughs himself stupid for about a year!)
He once fell off his bike and nearly lost his "kids"!
"Oh, it was the usual, you take the training wheels off for the first time when
you're around eight and think you can do
anything. I bashed right into something and a part of the bike got me right
here(points to "private" region) and I nearly
lost my kids!(Holds onto "kids" for about half an hour at the very memory.) They
were like snowballs!"
He's got a spooky eyebrow.
"I certainly do have a spooky eyebrow!(Wobbles spooky eyebrow, which is not
unlike Christian Slater's) That's for
when I'm feeling(pulls face of complete loony)."
He was an egghead at school even though he couldn't be bothered!
"I graduated with honours, but I was not big on school. I was too busy dancing
and being in the business. I was earning
money professionally at 12, so it didn't make much sense to me. Tht night before
my graduation I went out, partied too
hard, woke up in a friend's place at midday and was supposed to graduate at one.
My mom nearly killed me! I screamed
across Los Angeles to get there on time in the car - man, I broke laws to get
there! - and made it! So I held up my honours
card and thought she'd forgive me. And she didn't!"
He's the chirpiest bloke in the universe and talks through an enormous
gleam-toothed grin!
"I'm a happy guy. Who wouldn't be, watching all their dreams come true at 21?"
DAVID
He was born on November 12, 1972, which makes him a spooky Scorpio and what's
more he smells "funny"!
"I'm a typical Scorpio. I fit the stature. I'm out there. I'm a very sexual
person. I've been told I reek of sex.(Blee!)
Oh, a few women have said so. Heheh. I love to hold people, I love to feel, to
touch. It can make you crazy, but you have
to get a grip on yourself, you have to get up the next day and live life,
y'know? But I know it's in me, definately in me..."
He's not very tall!
"I;m 5'8"(i.e 173cm). Tall enough."
He's got a big manly chest and keeps whipping his shirt off in "celebration"!
"Uh..uh...(looks mortified)naah. Uh I just, y'know, as far as photos and stuff,
the management recommend...um, some
sexiness I guess, heheh. I've just kept myself in shape and the first thing that
comes off on stage is the shirt because it's
...stimulating, in an attractive way.
How manly is it on a scale of one to 10?
"Manly? Huhuh! Hey, that's for the girls to
judge!"
He's got rather fine black rock'n'roll hair with chestnut highlights in from the
sun!
"I never use products, just regular shampoo. I guess thanks to the Lord and my
mum I got this hair."
He's never met his dad...
"I would like to some day meet my father. But my mom always explained who he
was, why I was the darker member of
the family - he was Spanish. But I had a lot of father figures around so...and
my mom has always been my best friend.
I love my mom so much, she's my world, she means everything to me. But I'd like
to meet him out of curiousity one day
an give him one of these(a gigantic V sign). I just learned that in London!"
And his mum makes him blub...
"I cried when I left my mom to come here. I was gonna miss her so much. I tried
to hold it in so much and it just exploded
out of me at the airport! Waah!"
If you went out on a hot date with him he'd rustle you up a fruit,
ice-cream'n'cream cracker Sunday "Special"!?
"I used to cook dinner for my dates. I can cook a nice little dish of fresh
vegetables, sliced chicken, a nice healthy sauce, some nice rice - I can do a few things. I used to use a blender very
creatively, throw everything in - fruits, ice-cream,
cream crackers, everything!"
He's the Deep One as he's from the streets!
"I'm not your everyday person. I bring a little something to this group because
of where I've come from. Growing up in
the city, on the streets, doing what you can to get by, from there to here,
y'know? I guess I have a street edge is what I'm
trying to say. People say I'm deep. I dunno. Maybe. I know I'm a very loving
person."
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