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OK, so tell me about the origins of ADORABLE - like, how did it all begin?
"Don't Wann talk about it. It's boring."
Pardon?
"It's boring. The current line-up has been together for a year. That's it."
Eeeek!! Attitude dude alert! Coventry's answer to aural oblivion is putting its foot down. Right on the quivering head of tradition.
"I can't say at this stage what I'm gonna be like in a year's time," muses singing guitarist Piotr Sijalkowsky-a bizarre mixture of Ian McCulloch and Kevin Turvey. "But I know that the album that we're gonna put out is gonna go down as one of the best debut albums of all time. And I know that. The songs are there, and we know they're brilliant."
"The whole problem with 1991 was that there was a desperate contentedness with the middle ground and muffled applause," snaps bassist Will, a man who can safely say that he's kissed Mozzer onstage. "People didn't Beatles-style hysteria, they wanted polite applause and a pat on the back. I'd rather be bottled offstage. A couple of our earlier bands were bottled off, 'cos we were crap!' But that's better than people saying, 'Oh nice one,' and shaking your hand.
If all this vitriol and vehemence leads you to believe that Adorable are setting up shop as the next Fabulous Street Preachers, all mouth and bad bondage trousers, then fear not. The furthest Adorable's lineage streatches back to is the dramatic guitar grumblings of the Bunnymen era, with any punk pretensions erased by the kind of contemporary noise/pop sensibility that turns legs into raspberry jelly and makes blancmange out of usually rigid spinal cords.
Eight hundred copies of the single are now (finally) doing the rounds, low-key. Man while the foursome (including guitarist Robert Dillan and drummer Kevin Gritton), having paddled with various labels at the end of last year, have now taken the plunge with Creation.
The band themselves are weird. When Wil rambles on about Proust, Rench cinema and aesthetics, it seems as though music is the last thing on Adorable's minds. Conversely, their knowledge of the indie scene, from Nirvana to The Bardots, is flawless and overflowing with passion. Sort of.
Will claims that he got so stultifyingly bored with the 'faceless negativity' of indiedom last year that he said 'Yes' to Techno until Nirvana and Hole's LPs dragged him back into the guitar gutter. Piotr, meanwhile, wants to talk about pop stars and how Adorable-unlike Mega City Four-wanna be adored.
"I want people to have a good time and I don't want to rip people off, but I don't like this buddy-buddy with the audience stuff and 'looking after the fans'," he sneers, politely. "We're not that sort of band. If a fan came up and spole to us, we'd probably be pretty rude. Yeah, I hope they have a good time and that it's because I performed a good gig and they wanna sleep with me or whatever...like, if they're blokes! But at the end of the day I don't wanna talk to them."
They've been invited on to the Curve tour, they reckon they're going to be hugely important in 1992 because they're willing to stand up and shout out against sexism and similarly contentious issues, and they're cocky without crossings over the dickhead threshold. They also talk their way through four pints of beer. Each. Great!
I reckon they could rise as swiftly and sweetly as Ride. Creation agree. So, not surprisngly, do Adorable
"If there's one thing I genuinely, genuinely believe it's that this band are gonna be massive. I really think we're gonna be absolutely HUGE!"
Love 'em to death, at the very least.
Simon Williams
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