(continued from page one) my life is over. Listen to this new demo by Derryn
Whaley and the Love Harpoon, and you will hear the sound of the future. None of
this namby-pamby, "I'm so depressed" crap you hear on the radio these days - this
is a return to the music I grew up on. This is good old, four to the floor, balls out,
good time ROCK AND ROLL!!! (excited) It's like when I'm on a stage, I'm a
samurai, and my guitar is my axe! And I can cut through all the bullshit like a knife,
man. When I play my axe, I can cut right through all your preconceived ideas and
notions, like a knife man. Like a knife.
G: I want to ask you about that last tour with Michael and tha Ink Resolution,
because we've all heard the stories od wild nights, wild antics and wilder women.
Can you lay any rumours to rest?
DW: Did you hear what I just said? Can you understand, did you not understand the
words that I am enunciating with my mouth? Here, look here (points to mouth) -
that is the past. P-A-S-T. Now is... now. Alright? It's like I say on this new demo
that I recorded with my band, Derryn Whaley and the Love Harpoon, I say,
"You need to shut your mouth, and hear the music talk". Because the music
talks. And what it says is - "I rock". And it does. It truly does.
G: That sounds awfully similar to the title of InkRes' unfinished third album, 'Enough
Talking, Let The MusicDo The Talking'.
DW: Well a lot of things sound similar to a lot of things, don't they? Look, I've learned
that people are going to talk, people are going to say bullshit, about me or Lady
Di or whoever, but I say - alright. Let them talk. Because, right now, as I talk, as
I'm sitting in this cafe with you and with these other people, I'm musically
happier than I've ever been. And that - the music - that's what people are going
to remember at the end of the day.
G: Don't you ever miss the crowds, the awards, the parties, the women?
DW: No I don't. No, not for a second. Because, let me tell you this, all the money in
the world won't buy you the kind of happiness I feel when I plug in my axe and
walk on stage with Derryn Whaley and the Love Harpoon. The energy at our
shows, it's really something else. Electric, that's the word I was looking for. The
energy is electric, when you look into the crowd and see hundreds of faces
singing along to your songs. I mean, I don't know if anyone else has said this
before, but I really feed off the energy that the crowd gives off, and I give it right
back to them. You really have to be there to see it, man.
G: Actually, I was at your show at the Conquistador last night. It looked as though -
DW: Now, wait a second man, because - wait, just... I know what you're going to say,
and last night's show was - that was an unannounced, private show, that's why
only six -
G: I saw it advertised in the paper, I think.
DW: Oh... well, obviously, I could be in some prima donna poofter band and we could
play our first gig at Wembley Stadium, sure, I could do that. But with Derryn
Whaley and the Love Harpoon, we are not some poofter band. We are not your
latest flash in the pan. If no one buys this 4 track demo we've just recorded,
which we co-produced with Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Kiss), though believe me,
they are - if no one buys it, that doesn't mean we'll stop. The rock train will never
stop. We'll just keep charging on down the line, all stops to abso-bloody-lute rock
goddery.
G: Okay, first of all, 'goddery' isn't a word. And secondly, if the 'rock train' doesn't
stop, then how can it be all stops to anywhere?
DW: Do you - look, honestly, do you enjoy being a tosser?