Monday, March 08, 2010

Not happening for Gene

Gene Simmons - one of the subbrands of merchandising corporation Kiss - wishes, oh he wishes that all British music could be as interesting as Oasis:

"God bless the U.K. for giving the world the music that makes all our lives better. I like Keane, I like Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand write great songs. What's missing is stars. I don't care what they do, who they're shagging, where they live... they're not interesting people."

"The most interesting people to me are the Gallagher brothers. The interesting thing about them is they're drug addicts and alcoholics and they fight with each other. That's really it."

The claim that Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher are both drug addicts and alcoholics is, I stress, Gene Simmons' opinion.

I guess Gene has a point - nobody is very interested in who Keane might be shagging. But, come to that, is anyone really interested where Gene Simmons lives? He might assume so, since people keep asking him to make programmes about his life. But Gene: nobody really cares.

Perhaps if you spent less time being "interesting", you might be able to write a song that - and let's set the bar quite low - is as good as Somewhere Only We Know.

[Thanks to Michael M]


2 comments:

Paul Wells said...

"The interesting thing about them is they're drug addicts and alcoholics and they fight with each other. That's really it."

To be fair to Gene Simmons, he's managed to summarise the Gallaghers'
careers quite succinctly with that sentence. That is pretty much all they'll be remembered for.

Anonymous said...

"Not happening for Gene"

I'm surely not the only one who thought this was going to be about the band. Then again, I guess the one line header would probably have been enough to cover everything in the world of Gene right now.

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