Event
Vivid
Saint Etienne Interview
May 1990

Format
TV (Interview)

Venue
ITV

Notes
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition and reduce the current monopoly to the then BBC Television (established in 1936). Early interview with Bob and Pete on the show Vivid.

Presenter
ITV

Who Was There
Bob Stanley
Pete Wiggs

Transcript

Part 1

Introduction
Bob Stanley: I'm Bob

Pete Wiggs: And I'm Pete

Bob Stanley: And We're Saint Etienne

Segment 1
Bob Stanley: Well. We're Both Neil Young Fans, so we'll do a Neil Young song. um. We're thinking doing ah something off the On The Beach Album first. But that was abit impractical, sorta about nine minutes long, acoustic, ah. it's just alot easier to do. I mean the original was in 3/4 time so it wasn't that easy to do but..ah...its come out quite nice anyways. We think.

Segment 2
Interviewer: Do you think the fact that there are such a huge amount of cover versions about at the moment its been a help or a hindrance to success?

Bob Stanley: A Hindrance. Definitely. um...it's been, some of the reviews have just said yes another cover version and things like that and instantly dismissed it which is like...just..just not not really listening. Its its totally different to the original. It's like totally remodelled you know ah. Whereas certain other cover versions that are out at the moment just stuck a Soul II Soul rhythm underneath the original more or less. Hardly changed anything. umm..So we think...largely think its better than most of the cover versions that are around.

Segment 3
Bob Stanley: We're going to have different singers on everything we do. ummm. on each single anyways. (we're not going to have a fixed????) umm..but, we hopefully we can get somebody in everytime with a voice as good as Moira's, that's her name, not Lucy.

Interviewer: So Pete, why do you got Lucy in the video?

Pete Wiggs: Umm, well Moira originally didn't want to be involved anymore other than just doing the first recording so we had to have some one to sing it cause it looked abit daft just us two standing around and she lives above us in our flat so...and she wanted to do it, so we did it.

Part 2

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