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JW
...we're joined by Neil and Chris from the Pet Shop Boys.
JH Can I first of all , before we go any further, complement you on the
bow tie because that for me was the most glamorous thing I've seen on
that stage there. The bow tie loosened at the end.
NT You've got to do that when you come back on, loosen the bow tie. It's
a kind of Sammy Davis Jr thing.
JW You've never done Glastonbury before. Why did you decide to do it this
time?
NT Well, they asked us. Actually, they asked us about five years ago, the
year Pulp did it, to do it. We weren't touring at the time but we've been
touring the last year and wanted to play.
JW It must have been fairly daunting to play Glastonbury. It's not somewhere
you'd imagine you...
NT Em, yeah, because you know when you're on stage the audience is a very
long way away from you. I don't know if people are aware of that, actually
miles away and you've got camera men and media standing there and then there's
the audience. But you know it was good because the sun went down during
the set and it seemed to go pretty well by then.
JW How was it for you, Chris?
CL Well, it was pretty nerve wracking really, and you've got a camera on
you the whole time as well. As if it's not bad enough performing, you've
got this camera up your nose and looking at your fingers playing and it's
"Go away will you?"
JH Can you see the faces of the crowd? I'm going there tomorrow and I'm
very nervous.
CL I could see the first few rows clearly. It's just good to see that people
are just not canning you off.
JW Were you nervous about how you would go down, how people would react?
NT I thought it would probably go down alright. I think we're very much
a contrast on the pyramid stage today because I think Ocean Colour Scene
were on before us, and Reef before them and then Travis after us, so I think
actually that's a really good enviroment for us, because it's a complete
change for everyone. And also we do lots of singles in this show.
JH And all that dancing around. You could see all the lights moving around.
Could you see that from where you were?
NT We could, yeah. It looks like a kind of city, it looks like the night
before the battle of Waterloo or something.
JH You also described yourself as Glastonebury virgins. How would you describe
yourselves now?
NT (flummoxed) I don't know...
CL Slags (Much general laughter)
JH Now, I believe you were joined by a very special guest which we haven't
seen yet. Tell us about how that came about.
NT Well, last year when we did Creamfields, we asked Cerys Matthews from
Catatonia to perform What Have I Done To Deserve This with us, because it
wasn't long after Dusty Springfield had died, and we wanted to do it as
a tribute to Dusty. But Cerys was doing the Reading festival or something
the same day or whatever so this year when we were going to do this we asked
her again and this time she was available. We just rehearsed it in my hotel
room this afternoon.
JH One rehearsal...
JW ...In your hotel room?
NT Yeah, it was great. The cleaner was looking through the window when we
were doing it and...
JW Did you do the full...
NT It was nice, it was great. She gave us a bit of glamour as well.
JH Oh, plenty of that anyway.
JW Let's have a look and see how it works. (they watch WHIDTDT on video)
JH That was marvellous. Neil, that was marvellous.
JW This is like a torture chamber, making you see it.
NT I can't bear to watch myself on telly. Cerys was great I thought.
JH You were all great.
JW (Pointing to Chris) Did you see him going "Oh, I'm not doing that move
ever again."
CL I know, you see how tragic you look.
JH A nice bit of acting wasn't it, a nice bit of drama for the...
NT Well the song's a dialogue. I think Dusty would have liked that.
JW She would. Why did you choose Cerys, what was it about her..
NT Well Cerys has a very individual voice and style and also the way she
writes her own songs and lyrics or whatever, that's like dialogue as well.
You know it's like real life. This song has very mundane lyrics in a way
about the end of a relationship and I just thought she would sound good
doing it.
JW And she did.
JH She tells a story.
NT She tells a story. She gets a good story over.
JW What plans do you have for the rest of the evening? Are you out of here
as quickly as possible or are you going to hang around?
CL Well, I've heard it shuts down at 12:30. Is this true?
JW (horrified at the very thought) Noooo...
CL Well, I'm staying then.
JW Party on.
NT Party on dude. I'll probably leave quite soon...You know you can watch
it on television? (laughs)
JW I've heard the coverage is very good (laughs)
NT Last night we left our hotel room to see the Chemical brothers and we
went off dashing into the night playing the radio very loudly. Then we hit
the two mile tailback and so we drove back to the hotel and watched the
television.
JH Much more comfortable.
JW It looked great on television.
JH Let me ask you this. I'm not really one for tents and sleeping bags and
all that sort of thing. I think it's marvellous that one hundred thousand
people love music and will come and do that but I find that if I put up
a tent it falls on top of me. Does it do much for you, that sort of world?
NT I went camping with the scouts when I was ten and no...no. It rained,
it snowed, someone in our tent broke his leg...
JH How did they do that? How do you break your leg in a tent?
NT I don't know, but he did.(laughs) And there was water coming right through
the middle of the tent and I thought I'm never going to do this again, and
I haven't. I don't mind caravans though.
JH Caravans. I've got here (delves behind him and produces a tatty LP),
look I bought this for a pound today, I bought this record. Isn't that a
lovely record? Paul Brady's on this. (The cover of the LP features an old
fashioned, multi-coloured caravan). Travelling people.
NT That's a gypsy caravan
JH Lovely painted wagon there. Travelling people... that sounds good, doesn't
it.
NT Very Toad of Toad Hall, that.
JH (putting LP away) Anyway ...so it hasn't been a wasted day... (general
laughter)
JW Well, we will let you get off then.
JH Thanks very much for joining us.
Special thanks to Peter Campbell For taking he's time in Translating this
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