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Once the troops from No Class had arrived in London\u2019s Waterloo, the flat of Martian Dance\u2019s Jerry Lamont and their manager, Tracy, was found and an interview was held, which went like this: <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Would you say that you play dance music? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yes. That\u2019s one of the things that we want to get over live, that we believe that when people go out to a gig they ought to be there strictly to enjoy themselves. You go to gigs and it\u2019s like everyone\u2019s bored beforehand, and the support group are on and everyone seems to think it\u2019s a bit of a drudge and don\u2019t pay any attention to \u2019em at all, and then they see the main group and the main group go off, and that\u2019s it : they go home. What we tried to do \u2013 we hired a disco out , the Whisky A Go Go which is in Wardour Street. It was like a club in the sense that it was open at 8pm, and there was good sounds being played all night by the DJ, then the group came on. There wasn\u2019t a support group. Then after that it was open til 2am. But we found that \u2013 we played there two nights running \u2013 a lot of people came but afterwards they didn\u2019t seem to want to stay or dance, or listen to the DJ who was playing their kind of music. We went on quite early, considering the time the place was open til, so that people could get home. We went on about 10pm so we were off by 11pm. We found about 90 per cent of the audience went home: whether it was because they had to get home or go to work in the morning, I don\u2019t know. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Do you think your music will evolve as the band gain experience and success. <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yeah, it has done in the time we\u2019ve been together. You\u2019re finding your feet and you\u2019re playing more the stuff you want to play. As you gain experience \u2013 the band are all very young \u2013 you find the material improves from month to month. The most recent song is always thought to be better than the one before that. The songs that were in the set six months ago are no longer there. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Have you thought of adding a horn section, or anything like that? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: No, we haven\u2019t actually thought of adding a horn section, in fact we\u2019ve added another guitarist. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Are you prepared to commercialise your music to gain popularity? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: People often ask that question, but the essence is Roses To Reno (the new single) is a commercial record. And that\u2019s not a question of compromise, that\u2019s what we want to play. We want to be a commercial group, we don\u2019t want to be an underground band at all. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any medals to be gained by saying we want to be a cult status band. Most of the bands that say that haven\u2019t got the material to come out of cult status into the big time. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: If you\u2019re a cult band you\u2019re gonna be in the same place for a long time, but if you\u2019re a commercial band you might just have your fifteen minutes. <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yeah, I understand that totally, but cult bands play the material they want to play, not cos they want to be cult bands. If the material that they play is going to appeal to a small section of the public then they are going to be there for a certain amount of time. I\u2019m not knocking any groups who are doing that at all. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Are the record company trying to say \u2018This is what we want your music to sound like\u2019? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: They have done, but they haven\u2019t succeeded at all. As you know, on EMI, the label we\u2019re on, they\u2019ve got Duran Duran who are enjoying a great deal of success at the moment, but Duran Duran are not really our cup of tea. Our sound is our sound and Duran Duran have got their sound. They haven\u2019t said \u2018Let\u2019s sound like Duran Duran\u2019 but in certain ways when a band have got a hit single out at the moment then that\u2019s how they see the label going. To some extent they do want you to compromise to their way of thinking, but really they don\u2019t know how they want the group to sound; all they know is that they want hit records. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: You sound as though you don\u2019t think much of EMI, or is that the wrong impression? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: That\u2019s the right impression really. I don\u2019t really think a lot of EMI due to the experience we\u2019ve had. It\u2019s a very big company and we\u2019re just a cog in the works. We\u2019re just a very small part of it. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Do you regret signing to them? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Well, we wanted to sign to a major, there\u2019s no doubt about that. We had a lot of offers from independent companies. We want to be successful and the way to be successful is to be on a big company with a lot of money behind the band who can do all the things that a small company can\u2019t. We\u2019ve got control right across the board but when you\u2019re talking about a major company you\u2019re talking about a lot of money spent on promotion and all things like that. You do come up against problems, but maybe what we\u2019ve come up against at EMI you\u2019d come up against with any major company, so I can\u2019t really say we\u2019ve regretted signing to it. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP0041.jpg\")
<\/span><\/p>\nNC: Do you have any message in your music? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: People often ask this question, asking if we are putting any political message across, and the answer is no. We want people to dance and listen to our records. The lyrics are not throwaway, they\u2019re all personal things. Obviously I have got a political point of view \u2013 I haven\u2019t actually said this before in any interviews \u2013 but it\u2019s not being put across in the lyrics. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Do the lyrics reflect your feelings? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: To an extent, yeah. I\u2019m just a human being and everybody\u2019s in different moods at different times. Some of the lyrics are very tongue-in-cheek, other lyrics are maybe just the way I\u2019m feeling about a certain thing at a certain time. There\u2019s no set mould to any of the content of the lyrics. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: What\u2019s the song Temporary Forever about? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: People are talking about building nuclear shelters, well, if there was actually a nuclear war, as it were, and you were in a shelter and the majority of the population wasn\u2019t and you came out of the shelter afterwards and you were the only one left. That was something I was thinking about: what I could imagine it would be like, being the only one left. That was what the song was about. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Is the song Ouija Board based on true experience? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: I\u2019ve had experiences with a Ouija board and that sort of thing. You don\u2019t actually know. I believe things have happened. A lot of it is self conscious, maybe, whereby you feel the glass moving. It is self conscious and you don\u2019t know you\u2019re moving it. I\u2019ve had experiences where I\u2019ve got very good reason to believe it was absolutely nobody moving the glass, <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Are you interested in mysticism or anything like that? Black magic, astrology, the occult, that sort of thing? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yeah, I think it\u2019s interesting, the more you read about it. Things people have actually experienced. It\u2019s the mind: you can push yourself to the limit. If you wanna believe something, the mind can actually control the body, literally. The Ouija board is about as far as I wanna go. I don\u2019t wanna go into voodoo dolls, or that sort of thing. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP0042.jpg\")
<\/span><\/p>\nNC: What do you think of people bootlegging your gigs? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: I don\u2019t mind, personally, people bootlegging our gigs. What I think is bad is that I know that people go and bootleg our gigs, and they\u2019re absolutely terrible recordings, terrible reflections of the band, but fans of the group want to hear these things, a different side of the band. I think it\u2019s bad when people go out and they\u2019re making a lot of money, they\u2019re just exploiting. Fans of the band exploiting other fans of the band, like selling them for \u00a33, which they have been doing. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: So how about doing a live album? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: There\u2019s so much you can do in the studio, you can do anything. There\u2019s so much you can learn, the possibilities to what you can do are endless. Unless you want \u2018This is a live gig\u2019 there\u2019s no point as far as I\u2019m concerned. That\u2019s not personally what I want to do. Doing it in the studio you get much better quality music and sounds to listen to. When you\u2019re talking about dance records you\u2019ve gotta do them in the studio.<\/span><\/p>\nNC: What about the name? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: There was a T Rex track from ages ago called Ballrooms of Mars. I told one of our guitarists, Kevin Addison, and from that he said \u2018How about Martian Dance?\u2019 cos we wanted to be a band that people could dance to. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: What\u2019s your opinion of an ideal gig? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: When the band played note perfect throughout the set, nobody made a single minor error anywhere, the whole crowd were dancing from start to finish, totally involved in the whole show, and there wasn\u2019t any trouble. We want people to be standing; we don\u2019t want to play anywhere that people have got to sit down; it\u2019s not for us. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP0043.jpg\")
<\/span><\/p>\nNC: Would you do any benefit gigs? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yeah, but when you start doing things like Rock Against Racism, for example, there\u2019s so many overtones like Socialist Workers Party and all that. Whether you\u2019re for it or against it, it doesn\u2019t matter, but what it means is that politics is being brought into music. I often think when we\u2019re playing \u2018Who are all these people we\u2019re playing to and buy our records?\u2019 If they\u2019re National Front or British Movement supporters, I don\u2019t want anything to do with it. I\u2019d rather they didn\u2019t buy our records. I\u2019ve got absolutely no respect for them at all. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: When you do an album are you gonna put the lyrics in with it? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yeah, we might do. At the moment we\u2019re thinking about the single\u2019s bag. We\u2019re getting the design for that together. When we break it\u2019s gonna be in the same way that Spandau Ballet broke. Our record\u2019s gonna go in the charts and it\u2019s gonna go from there. It\u2019s not gonna be any 10 year thing. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Will you do Top of the Pops? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Oh yeah, definitely, we\u2019ll be on Top of the Pops, mate. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Do you think Roses To Reno will do it ? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: When it\u2019s finished, yeah. It will have taken us 5 days. That\u2019s on the A side. The B side took us about an hour. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: Will EMI promote it? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: Yeah. They look at things as \u2018Is this a chart record?\u2019 With The Situation, the first single, they didn\u2019t think it was a chart record. Looking back on it I still think it was a chart record in the sense it could have been a minor hit. Top 30, 40, that sort of area. <\/span><\/p>\nNC: What number did it reach? <\/span><\/p>\nJL: It went straight in at 100 and straight out. They didn\u2019t promote it. At the same time they were hyping another band, who shall remain nameless, and they forgot about Martian Dance, but it\u2019s been deleted now. They push something that they feel is good enough to get into the Top 20, and the record is then good enough to sell it\u2019s own amount of records. With this single, when it\u2019s finished, that\u2019s how it will be. If this single\u2019s a hit, then the next thing\u2019s the album. We\u2019ll probably put Roses To Reno on the album. We wouldn\u2019t put The Situation on any album. I don\u2019t think a band should take loads of singles off albums. I\u2019m sure we won\u2019t put any of our B sides on any album. We\u2019ve done Twist and Shout at the end of our set. It\u2019s just a song we\u2019ve thrown in. It\u2019s a bit of fun, people dance to it. We see the A sides as hit singles, and the B sides as throwaways. That\u2019s it really. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP1284.jpg\")
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