Smoke rising..
  • PUBLICATION - 'NME' or New Musical Express
  • ORIGIN - UK
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION - 24 November, 1990
  • SUBJECT - 20 Questions
  • TITLE - MATERIAL WORLD
  • AUTHOR - Stephen Dalton

  • Thought of anything nice to say about your album yet?
    Lee- No

    What does 'La' actually mean?
    Lee- Abbreviation for 'Lad'

    Name another Liverpudlian who uses the expression
    Lee- Saddam Hussein

    Is Merseybeat coming back for the 90's?
    Lee- Where to?

    What will the second La's album sound like?
    Lee- Like us

    Do you model yourselves on The Rutles?
    Lee- Yes

    Heroes and inspirations
    Lee- Laurel & Hardy
    Starsky and Hutch

    Why don't you do dance mixes?
    Lee- Not allowed to do our own yet

    Favourite TV show
    Lee- Paint along with Nancy

    What's the point of being in a pop band?
    Lee- ...if you can't make your own record

    What do you want for Christmas?
    Lee- Money and stockists

    Favourite drinks
    Lee- Brandy, tea, Guinness, lager, amyl nitrate

    How do you spot a La in the crowd?
    Lee- Smoke rising

    That single by Frank Rogers of Brookside(1*) chart smasheroo or what?
    Lee- Or what

    1* For the benefit of non UK web browsers 'Brookside' is a very lively
    soap, set in Liverpool, broadcast on one of the terrestial channels in the UK,
    bodies buried beneath the garden patio, lesbian trysts and Jimmy Corkhill
    looking for his friend 'Charlie'..

    Ten bands who are better than you
    Lee- The Smurfs
    Chas & Dave and eight of their mates
    Ken Dodd

    Are you looking forward to the Single European market in 1992?
    Lee- We'll wait for the album

    Best thing about being on GO! DISCS
    Lee- when we eventually get paid

    Band motto
    Lee- " Skin Up "

    Best gig ever played?
    Lee- Frank Rogers of Brookside

    Ideal epitaph?
    Lee- Funny

    If the history of pop is a great banquet, what role would The La's play?
    Lee- Hosts

    Why the superfluous apostrophe in your name?
    Lee- So people like you say it right

    Still not got anything nice to say about your album?
    Lee- Jimmy Savile
     
     

    Stephen Dalton.

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