Talk
all over you
25 Aug 2000
The Regulars this week added to their growing reputation as the most garrulous band in Brum as another interview with them was published.
This time it's a feature on the website of Bearos Records - the Birmingham label of growing repute, which last month released the band's debut single Lie down and fight - that breezes happily from the early days of the band to the charms of Bearwood, taking in the virtues of guitar pop along the way.
Stu provides one notable high point with the observation: "Bearwood - it's lovely. It's full of food."
Other points of interest are Pete's new 'pop manifesto', given at the end of the piece, and where the band is asked by Mr Bearos, Alan Farmer, to list tracks and artists from a 'Regulars Fantasy Tribute Album'.
The interview - which will also feature in the forthcoming Bearos mail-out - is illustrated with two of the superb Lightwoods Park photographs by Stuart Mills taken last year to accompany The Regulars' interview with Siren fanzine.
If this has tickled your turnip sufficiently to tempt you into reading the whole interview, then point your browser to www.bearos.freeserve.co.uk/regulars.htm.
Meanwhile, the Regs were surprised and delighted to find a great preview of this week's Jug of Ale gig in Birmingham's free daily paper for sleepy commuters, Metro, popularly known - appropriately enough given the band's preoccupation with public transport - as 'that paper you pick up on the bus'.
The blurb - penned by Justin Wiggan of Brum's much-feted favourites Subaqwa - begins pleasingly by describing The Regulars as 'intellectual slackers', and goes on interestingly to cite perceived musical reference points such as The Fall, Violent Femmes and Talking Heads and mid-80s indie.
If you're reading this, Justin, The Regulars are very grateful.
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