What's not to like.
They were great times. I remember interviewing slaughterhouse 5 in a pub near Queen Street station. By then they were called the Floor and their manager wasn't happy with me as I wouldn't interview wet wet wet. It was personal I just figured I really liked the company of the band, I'm just one person and Wet Wet Wet seemed to be getting plenty of publicity and we at Deadbeat were too insignificant for them, surely. Ha ha, oh how I laugh. It was around this time that the wheels off my life were spinning towards yet another car crash. I was happy in my confusion one day and completely suicidal another. As sure as night follows days I'd rise or fall. Deadbeat was just so much fun and most of the people we met were brilliant.
Our first real interview was with Roddy Frame on the bedroom floor in the hotel in Dundee. Aztec Camera had just blown away the crowd at the Dance Factory gig. Sex n drugs and Sausage Rolls was our first headline. Not sure we hit those heights again. It didn't matter we were there party, provide a platform for new bands to acquire an audience. Go out and party while the country culturally was under siege.
4 years later, the end of Deadbeat was in sight. I tried to put out a 4th birthday free issue but it hit the cutting room floor. It's still there in the archives and on the blog somewhere.
This year I want to update the bibliography page so bands or their fans can look back and see those early days.
We were so lucky to have people contributing from all over. Some issues we'd have a lot of time to put it together and others it seemed like work or hangovers got in the way. Many reviews or interviews just never got typed up. It was as chaotic as it should be. It was our childhood. I'm becoming that child again, and now I've got the time I realise I couldn't work without a deadline and I was pretty shit when I had one.
More to work on then. Interviews with where are they now for our YouTube channel. That's 2025.
We weren't capable of being snotty, we were
