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Ms 'Obbs
Posted by Joe Muggs on 24 November 2009 - 12:23pm.
I would not normally spam on here; I present this purely because I think it might be of interest to the Massive, containing as it does stories about Peel, Paxman, Lydon and the like among much else of interest...
http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=526:qa-m...
N.B. it is long, so make a cup of tea and maybe even a sandwich before you start.
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Blimey... from that picture she seems to be
turning into Jo Whiley
TSSSK we don't mention That Name around here.
Actually MA Hobbs is almost entirely the anti-Whiley. That is to say, she is equally fond of verbal hyperbole as Whiley is, but in her case it comes - so far as I can tell - from 100% genuinely-held passion for and knowledge about what she's talking about.
A good read!
Well done, that man!
Great interview
I interviewed her about ten years ago in one of my first jobs and she was great- really easy company, very clued up and clearly just in to music to an absolutely incredible degree. Didn't know a lot of that stuff about her backstory - sounds like she'd actually have a pretty good memoir in her if she could ever find the time to write one...
There's tons more
that I didn't even get into, the 'rock years' when she hung out with Motley Crue and the like being a particular ommission...
This is not spam mate, this is great content
It is a very interesting read and it didn't cost me a thing so it is not like you are moving product via the blog. Any time you have more of this kind of interview please do post it.
You do seem to have missed 2 key questions though: is she single and what is she up to at the weekend.
Wasn't she
Mrs Miles Hunt at one point?
She was
but I was too polite to mention it.
(actually I'm being facetious, I like the first 2 Wonderstuff albums a lot, the conversation just didn't get round to it)
And why would you indeed?
Nice piece of work, I doff my cap in your direction. Makes a nice change to read something that's long enough to cover things in some depth.
R.E.M. headlined in 1999
Young Team by Mogwai came out in 1997. '99 was their first Glasto perhaps but they'd played Reading the year before - so she's misremembering when she says, "It was the year REM were headlining, and Michael Stipe was being helicoptered in. But earlier on Peel had been wandering around the fields and had bumped into Stuart from Mogwai. Now Mogwai had just had their first EP out and it was their very first festival appearance if I recall..."
But I don't doubt that Stipe was an arse and it doesn't change the substance of her story a jot, so I don't know why I felt the need to bring that up to be honest.
No, thankyou,
this is the sort of attenion to detail I do love the Massive for! I see Mogwai did play in 1999, which was the year of their first album proper (Young Team being a compilation of EP tracks).