| The first thing you notice about the
Green Room of the Temple Bar Music Centre is that it's
actually painted a very dark blue. There was a small
crowd in the smoky room on Saturday, 12th May 2001. Bands
and band followers were parked on the black leather sofas,
or perched on the surfaces in front of the dressing-room
mirrors. CORRUPTED were firmly in control of one couch.
The atmosphere was relaxed, and the band seemed in good
humour, despite a problem they'd had earlier with their
sound check. It was my second time at the venue, which seemed to be in that state of organised chaos associated with a BLAST gig. This Saturday was a scorcher, and many gig-goers were sitting outside in Temple Bar enjoying the weather while waiting for their favourite bands. Downstairs in the Music Centre it was cooler, darker. I asked the band what they thought of it. |
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Morgan: The BLAST gigs are great
because the kids go wild. The other gigs we’ve
played, the older, more set-in-their-ways rockers would
just sit down and drink their beer. They’d just be
kind-of sitting there going “Impress us”, and
stuff. I think it’s better to play BLAST… D.G: …kids hear a power chord, they just go fuckin’ mad, like… hop around the place. It’s cool… Antony: ..plus you have a bigger stage as well, where the likes of, say, the Gasworks, and other gigs we’ve played you’re two-foot off the ground and you couldn’t see anything from our point of view or people seeing us either. It was too clumped together. The Gasworks is closed now. Okay, there were problems with the stage, but it’s another venue gone. Antony: It’s true. There’s not a lot of venues here for the likes of metal bands at all. Hopefully more venues will be opened for the likes of our music. |
| Antony seemed very much
into the interview thing. He spoke seriously about the
topics, aware, perhaps, of being "on the record"
with the tape recorder turning over. Emmet was more
thoughtful, preferring to hear what other people were
saying before committing himself. He dragged on a
cigarette between comments. Morgan was intelligent and
good humoured, a natural frontman. D.G.'s comments were
more spontaneous, while Scooby Doogan sat and grinned
through the whole interview. It wouldn't be until later
when I was asking questions of them individually for the
Profile section of the Website that the quieter members
of the band relaxed into it. [You can read those
interviews by clicking here] Who gets nervous before they go on stage? Who’s the worst? Emmet: Antony… Antony: Probably me. I don’t know why. Consciously you… You go out and you want to do the best gig that you can. Beforehand it’s the waiting around and stuff like that…The monitors weren’t working earlier, but we know our stuff...We couldn’t hear anything in the monitors at all. Hopefully it’ll be worked out by the time we go on stage. Morgan: My mike kept squeaking… It was squeakin’ by itself… I think it’s possessed, or some shit. The last gig you played was on 24th March. Are there any changes to the set? Morgan: Oh there is… D.G: Big time… Totally changed around… Everything’s changed around. Have you added in any songs? Morgan: Yeah we have a new song, “In the Garden”, it’s being showcased today as such. There’s no lyrics for it… so don’t try and work it out! D.G: You told me you had lyrics for that! Morgan: No I don’t! (Laughs) |
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24th
March was the last gig. Today is the 12th
May. Why so long between gigs? DG: Treasureisland got back to me over the phone and said people were hurt in the mosh… CORRUPTED’s music was too heavy and they didn’t want kids hurt because bigger CORRUPTED fans were throwing their weight around… Did you agree with that assessment of the last gig then? D.G: No. Antony: Partially [the length of time between gigs] was my fault too, because I’m a carpenter and I was studying for my final exams. I have to have a “plan B”. People should stay in school and stuff… |
Antony's comment about staying in school produced snorts of laughter from the others, but he seemed to be in earnest. I wondered what type of schoolboys these guys had made... Morgan Angel in a school uniform was too much of a stretch to the imagination at that hour of a Saturday. I changed the subject.
Anything special anyone does before a gig to get ready?
Morgan: Beer…!
D.G: Get locked…!
Emmet: Beer.
Morgan: You attack the beer... You don’t attack it too much though. That’s about it.
Emmet: Have a few scoops. Get nice and relaxed before going on stage. Just don’t take it too seriously.
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