Ginger Says – Happy new year!
Monday, December 24th, 2001What a year. A few things to remember, at worst; at best, some valuable lessons learned about re-visiting old haunts and the art of moving on. Some things worked and some didn’t, but all were attempted. The Wildhearts: The biggest mistake of the year was to re-form The Wildhearts’ original line-up and think it would […]
Read More »Ginger Says – Choices
Monday, November 19th, 2001What a fucking tour! It came and it went and, boy, did it go! Highlights? * Setting fire to Nottingham Rock City was pretty ROCK, not to mention very ROLL. * Random Jon Poole reinventing himself as a cross between Keith Flint from the Prodigy and the bloke that your parents told you would pay […]
Read More »Ginger Says – The Wildhearts was fun to do when I was younger and a lot more selfish, but I don’t want to be seen as a road accident any more
Sunday, October 28th, 2001Is anyone looking forward to this tour as much as I am? Answer? No, not even close! The response to tickets has been relatively good, apart from in Ireland. No one wants to admit to being responsible for those tickets being as easy to get hold of as Osama bin fucking Laden, but the truth […]
Read More »Ginger Says – Dance, drink, fuck and party like it was yesterday. Because yesterday we didn’t know how much it meant to us
Thursday, September 20th, 2001How on Earth do you write a new intro when the world is about to go to war? I can’t take music as seriously as I used to. The art of penning a few interesting lyrics and coupling them with a succession of well worn chords seems to reside on the silly side of art […]
Read More »Ginger Says – Sobriety And The Real 12 Steps
Sunday, August 5th, 2001Anyone who’s given up anything that has become a constant in their life knows the pain of longing. Anyone who’s forced themselves to refrain from gorging on old habits due to health problems understands the day to day nature of the battle. Drugs, gambling, sex… shit, even TV, chocolate or coffee. All are serious enough to […]
Read More »Ginger Says – I swear to you that you know the future of The Wildhearts as well as I do
Friday, July 13th, 2001Well, where do we start? Trying to put the last couple of months into perspective is kinda like feeding a camel through the eye of a needle. You could eventually do it but it’d be really messy and take a helluva long time. And would it even be worth it? Probably not. The Wildhearts started […]
Read More »Ginger Says – Nothing ever changes but the news
Saturday, May 19th, 2001And so, on the first day of Wildhearts rehearsal I OD’d on anti-depressants, CJ had a fight in a pub with a gay Muslim nutcase and Danny was taken to prison for possession of a knife. All’s well on the Wildhearted front. Rehearsals sound big, the riffs are huge, the ambition and sheer workload is […]
Read More »Ginger Says – None of us would be here now if it wasn’t for this fucker
Tuesday, April 17th, 2001So I got home late Easter Monday from a weekend away having shite-loads of drunken fun in the country. Tired, and more than a little bilious, I nabbed a quick look at the weekend’s mail before catching up on some much needed kip. I saw something about Joey Ramone dying on Easter Sunday and drifted […]
Read More »Ginger Says – Alcohol And Girls
Friday, April 6th, 2001There really is nothing else, is there? I woke up this morning (cue blues riff) and the world was getting in my arse something rotten. Bills, debts and general badness abounded about my existence. ‘Fuck this’, I thought, ‘let’s hit that bottle of Absolute and fuck it all. In fact, fucking fuck it all. Fuckers. […]
Read More »Ginger Says – I’m in love with the rock ‘n’ roll world
Monday, March 19th, 2001Hey, hey, hey… so it all happened as laid down in the hopeful rantings of last month’s intro. Funny what happens when you commit yourself… or, if you like, ‘careful what you wish for’. Gotta admit, the response from the news that The Wildhearts are to reform was quite frankly ridiculous. Men openly weeped, women […]
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