Bare-Knuckle Fighting, Bloodsports, Eating Scraps, Being a part-time psychologist (see www.tonyrudd.com), UK and Canadian car licence plates, I collect them as many of you already know!
About me: FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT HUGE BANNER AT THE TOP SAYS...THIS SITE IS NOT A KEVIN ELDON&trade SITE AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM.
Don't Panic! All is well in the Rudd house, Paul is tucked up safe and sound with his Teddy Ruxpin hot waterbottle under the stairs and I'm dulling the pain of facebook's rejection with beef boullion shots.
I've emailed those at disabled@facebook.com asking what I have done wrong but they are pretty lax with the replies.
I'll be back!
UPDATE: How dare they? I am a real boy. They have the cheek to accuse me of not being a real man. They clearly are intimidated by just how much a man I am. Perhaps I am too much man for them to handle (unlike Greggles, he knows what he is doing believe me, the Digance, yeah I was a bit full on for him I think but that's a story for another day). I'll find a way.
There...anyone still with us? ...oh, nearly all of you...OK then read on reader...read on..
Recently accused of "doing a Tony Christie"...cult singer/songwriter Tony Rudd
(in his first NME interview since 1985) talks frankly about his recent
revival...life...love...and profiteroles... NME: First of all...let's
dispel some myths once and for all. Were you really a Pet Shop Boy?
TR: [laughs] No, I did however get involved with the writing of 'West End Girls' and
'Suburbia', I was originally a roadie for Neil Tennant but never a bona fide band
member as such. I still keep in contact with the boys, and they even came to the
Reading Festival last year to se my comeback as a solo artist. NME: Myth ..2...Did you really get into a brawl with Chas'n'Dave?
TR: I'm ashamed to say yes! I got into a silly backstage game of 'I Look Better
Than Chas' which went a bit too far...I'd just had a skinful of Parmaynu with DLT,
so I wasn't exactly in the best frame of mind. It got a bit ugly at the time but
we're okay now. Chas even sent me a bouquet of flowers afterwards, and dedicated
'The Sideboard Song' to me at their gig at the Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh. It's
ancient history now. NME: Okay last myth...Gang groupie-ism with Girls Aloud? Surely not!
TR: No Comment...[smiles wryly] NME: How did you become so huge in Canada?
TR: Well, it was 1981 and I'd just got together with Antony Carmicheal [of 'The
Rapping Song' fame]. After the disappointment of being runners up in BBC TV's
'Music 2000', we decided to take a break away from all of the negative hype and
result fixing scandals that surrounded the show. We just couldn't believe that Toni
Baxter had won. I still can't to this day in fact. Don't get me wrong, it's great
that the Look Around You show has been finally released on DVD after all this time,
but it just re-opened all those painful memories of losing. Tchaikovsky, the judge,
died again in 1987 so I couldn't even get a second opinion now. Anyway...I
digress...Antony's family owned a successful profiterole emporium in Montreal, so we
both took sales assistant jobs to make ends meet. I'd play guitar on occasions to
the customers, with Antony MC'ing over my vocals. To cut a long story short, Mikkla
Timparsium-Sprogg, a record company mogul, heard our jointly written track
'Rapper-daynu' and loved it. The rest as they say, is history...'Machadaynu' crept
to No.1 and stayed there for 3 weeks. It didn't even make the top 50 over in the UK, I hate
Toni Baxter, I hate her so much the evil bitch NME: When did you last see Toni Baxter?
TR: At the Cobbles'85 benefit gig in Peterborough. She had just duetted with Grace
Jones, and started bragging to me about the singer of Marillion or something...I
just threw meat at her and ran off NME: You shocked many rock fans when it was announced that you'd play Reading
2005. What was that like to play at?
TR: Amazing! It nearly didn't happen because Razorlight were meant to be doing my
slot. Johnny Borrell then had his sneezing pills stolen as we all know, so I was
drafted in at the last minute. The best part was the reaction to my Slipknot cover
'People=Shit'. Thousands of rock fans singing along, lighters held aloft was a
wonderful sight. Roll on Reading'06! NME: What are the backstage requirements for a typical Tony Rudd gig?
TR: The rider? okay then...[Rudd reads from a list produced from his pocket] 4x dry
towels (unwashed), 1x bottle of HP sauce, 1x Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 'Sparrow
Attack' game, 5x sparrows (preferably dead), 1x packet of 'Famous Numerical Digits'
Top Trumps, 1x Hale & Pace (backstage entertainment), 44x chickens (alive), 1x meat
cleaver, 3x knuckle dusters, 1x photo of Alan Davies, 288 (2 gross)x cocktail
sticks, 1x Jonathan Creek series 1 DVD (or VHS if the gig is in Kent), 9x
Podulators[tm], 4x thumbscrews....[Rudds breaks off from reading list] ...I could
go on but I'm sure you get the idea! NME: Has the tracklisting for your 'Best Of...' CD been finalised yet?
TR: Yes...the tracks are; [1]Machadaynu (original 7" version), [2]Don't Give Your
Sister Blisters Mister!, [3]Cold Bloody Meat, [4]I've Got Star Quality, [5]Tarvu!
Tarvu! Tarvu!, [6]I Know The Hot Jon Meaning, [9]Fuck Dat Dis Niggaz Gone Jive
Bubba, [10]Machadaynu (Freelance Hairdresser Mix), [11]LAP Dance, [12]Icarus,
[13]Kill Baxter, Kill, Kill, Kill Baxter, [14]Raining Blood On My Tongue,
[15]Heartache (Pepsi & Shirley cover), [16]Machadaynu (Frank Butchered Mix), [hidden
track]Endless, Nameless NME: Some parts of the music press label you as 'emo'. Do you think that's a fair reflection of the type of music you create?
TR: Yes NME: What's next for Tony Rudd then?
TR: I've got a new version of Machadaynu recorded with Funeral For A Friend that's got English lyrics...the cassette single will be released exclusively on myspace...so watch this (my)space!!!! [Rudd starts to get emotional]
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