back to part one, chatting with stephen!

part two, a chat with aggi!

cf: since there are so many bands living in the same area, do you pretty much have parties and play music all the time?
aggi: I'm not sure how true that one is. pretty well everyone we know is in a band, i suppose. but all of our friends that we see day-to-day are not bmx bandits and eugenius. you know, we don't all hang out together all the time. and actually for a while glasgow hasn't had any very very good new bands to play with but it's a bit better now, it's a bit more enthusiastic now.
cf: who are some of the new bands around that you like, in glasgow and otherwise? do you collect records?
aggi: I'm not the sort of person that feels like I have to have everything out. I do feel that I have to know everything, but I don't feel that I've got to have it myself. I mean I've got quite a few records. most of the newer bands in glasgow haven't got records out. bands like police cat, and... a lot of them even haven't got names yet.
cf: what was playing the international pop underground like? what was your lineup?
aggi: it was really good. we're really glad that we went, we're just sad that we didn't take our best lineup there, cause it was quite an unhappy lineup. it was with brian still playing guitar and francis from the bmx bandits playing drums and me and stephen and katrina.
cf: if you had a rider, what would be in it?
aggi: bananas.
cf: you know you've made it big time when bands reference you. I've heard a song or two that are about you as a band.
aggi: I don't know that that's making it big time. I think that means you're obscure.
cf: there's that song on the mind the gap tape called "that's why I like the pastels." It's pretty shambly and I can't make out any of the words except the part where they say "that's why I like the pastels."
aggi: I don't know that one. sometimes it's really good that people refer to us and it's really flattering but often they like us for things that we don't see as the most important things about us.
cf: like what?
aggi: well certainly a while ago a lot of people thought if they played jangly guitars with kind of cutie sort of lyrics and out of tune singing that meant it was like the pastels, but it's really wrong.
cf: do you have the grrrl scene going on at all?
aggi: for a long time it seemed there wasn't anything happening here at all in that way, but I think in the past year it got a lot better, it's more interesting. there's a really good riot grrrl fanzine called violet that's a girl in glasgow and a lot events being organized and a lot of enthusiasm and I think that's the reason a lot of people have started being in bands that have been talking about it for a long time. it's quite healthy.

thanks muchly aggi and stephen!

aggi's favories
sonic youth daydream nation
pavement crooked rain, crooked rain
jimmy cliff the harder they come
stax singles box set 1959-68
galaxie 500 on fire
the modern lovers the modern lovers
stereolab lo boob oscillator
jad fair and the pastels no.2

katrina's favorites
billy taylor trio i wish I knew how it would feel to be free
phil spector back to mono
the pastels up for a bit with the pastels
pianosaurus groovy neighborhood
orange juice ostrich churchyard
teenage fanclub bandwagonesque
moe tucker moejadkatebarry
ramones end of the century

stephen's favorites
beach boys pet sounds
galaxie 500 today
teenage fanclub a catholic education
various artists out of the floor
elvis presley memphis record
half japanese charmed life
sonic youth sister
miles davis kind of blue