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New
Musical Express
May 1995
The Wonder Stuff ex-members have reformed, minus
singer Miles Hunt, under the name
WeKnowWhereYouLive. Ange Dolittle, formerly the
singer with Eat, will join ex-Wonder Stuff
members Malcolm Treece, Paul Clifford and Martin
Gilks on tour in the last week of May.
Treece has also broken a nine-month silence and
become the first ex-Stuffie to talk about why
the band split. He said, "We lost the plot.
No-one seemed to pull in the same direction at
the same time. It mutated over the last English
tour. We had a meeting after that and said it's
not worth it. It was a brave thing for us to do
because we could've gone on. But I think we all
knew it wasn't happening. I still see Miles
though from time to time."
WeKnowWhereYouLive play Southampton Joiners Arms
(May 22), Exeter Cavern (23), Birmingham Jug Of
Ale (24), Chelmsford Army And Navy (25),
Leicester Princess Charlotte (26) and Windsor
Old Trout (27). A free white label single,
'Mental Hygiene'/'Draped' will be given away to
the first 50 people at each gig.
Singer Dolittle said: "People are going to say
it sounds a bit like Eat but of course it will
be because I used to be the singer of Eat. It's
been like getting a new girlfriend, it takes a
while to get used to playing with other people."
Ange said the band got its name because of his
experiences as a private detective. He said:
"When Eat finished a friend of mine had been
working for a big company in London. He needed
someone to do some private detective work and
said it could be quite messy. We were on this
case where we were following this guy who was a
real bastard. Then we were sitting in a van
waiting for him one morning at 5am and I jumped
out and said 'We know where you live, you
bastard'. Then I heard Gerry Adams saying it on
some programme. It's arrogant and threatening,
it's a good name for the 90's." Treece added:
"I'm fed up of these two-syllable one-word
bands."
WeKnowWhereYouLive formed late last year and
have spent most of 1995 rehearsing, recording
and playing ten-pin bowling. Treece said:
"Bowling is great. We've been playing that and
drinking lots of coffee. But it feels good to be
doing this. The Wonder Stuff has all gone now.
It's been a year since the last tour and nine
months since Phoenix. We can't live on what
we've done previously, we're doing stuff now
which is different and fucking great. It's a lot
harder and noisier than the stuff we were doing
at the end. It's more like the earlier stuff
rather than the things we went into." |
