Barafundle Bumbler fades out...


Mark: 'Ey It's a short one that Euros innit?
Euros: Yeah it was a bit short

mumbled laughter all round


MR: Very short one, sounded like you weren't quite... what's that all about then, the
Barafundle Bumbler?
Ec: Oh it's about a bloke who, ur likes to watch, ur people undress or
being scantily clad on beaches
MR: Is Barafundle a place? 'Scuse my ignorance
EC: Yeah, it's a beach round where we live, around Pembrokshire area
MR: Is that right? How is Pembrokshire these days? Is It all cleaned up now?
EC: Ur, not really, no. Still the dregs coming up y'know, but I think
they're trying to pass it off as clean, but I don't think it is
MR: Right, yeah, it was 'orrible all that wasn't it?
EC: Yeah, it was pretty nasty, yeah
MR: Ur, Right, go on then, do the honours. Introductions all round
EC: Right, ur, we've got Megan childs on ur, Megan on violin, Euros on
drums, Richard on bass, and John on guitar, and me... Euros on vocals
MR: Not having any trombones tonight from John?
EC: Ah, no there's non tonight

MR: I think that's was one of the roost glorious sights I've seen in some time actually was at a Manic Street Preachers gig where you where playing seeing the audience stand there whilst John Just went₁ like, berserk on mis trombone almost.

laughter


MR: How did you get on at that, because like from the outset I thought it was kind of... Did
they ask for you personally?
EC: I think they did, yeah. Ur, yeah, ur they seemed to like it... I
think, .....
MR: Right 'cos I don't know why, but you sort of don't expect to see you and the Manics
on the same bill
EC: No, it was quite a weird one, but the audience seemed to listen to it
so it was quite good
MR: Yeah, no they certainly did that right. So you didn't get bottled off anywhere?
EC: Oh no it wasn't that
MR: Not suggesting for one minute that the Manics audience is intolerant of course. Were
they nice to you? Did you meet them?
Ec: Ur, yeah. We met the singer a couple of times...
MR: He's very small in't he?
EC: Yeah he, he is quite small
MR: Apparently his cousin on the drums, the one that looks like Paul Merton
EC: Oh it's his cousin is it?
MR: Yeah, he's, he's tiny
Ec: Yeah he's smaller still isn't he
MR: think he's about three foot two and that's standing on one of his drum casings

laughter


MR: So Euros, where's all your curls gone? 'Cos you used to have all these, like
cherubic Marc Bolanesque curls and now you're shorn.

EC: I know, but they were starting to stink so I cut them off.
MR: What? you've never heard of shampoo
EC: No, no
MR: And what about the, ur caravan? Have you still got the caravan?
EC: No that's gone as well, all gone yeah

MR: You've gone up in the world and got a doormobile

laughter


MR: But I mean things have gone incredibly well for you haven't they? And I always hesitate to ask because it sounds incredibly rude, like I think you're crap, which you know I don't, but ur, did you ever expect it to go this far? When you started noodling and doodling and tinkling on your knackered old keyboards in yer caravan did you ever expect to play with the Manic Street Preachers, and supporting Pulp?

EC: No, I don't think so no, but y' know, it's all very nice
MR: Yeah, excellent, airight
EC: Yeah
MR: So, what happens now, what about urn, a new album and all that sort of stuff
EC: Yeah we've started recording that now and it should be out early, ur 97
MR: Oh really
EC: Yeah
MR: Right, so that's going to be a bit of an epic then is it?
EC: Oh yes, should well be
MR: And obviously you've got these, ur big Pulp gigs to do, the ur Chelmsford and
Warrington ones, anything else or are you having a bit of a breather now?
EC: Urm, yeah just recording the album really I think, and ur, yeah that's
it then
MR: Ok. Right, alright well we'll have another. What are you gonna do?- a new one or an
old one?
EC: Urn, this is a new one. It's called Go And Tell Her
MR: Alright then This is Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

launches into Patio song
.... later


MR: (reading a letter from a Lucy Gibson) "'Cos it's sort of fitting really 'cos we got to know
each other at a Gorky gig Ahhh
EC: Ahhh
MR: D'you think that's nice?
EC: Oh, that's very nice that, yeah

MR: Do you find that you have this effect₁ like₁ that you sort of spread love and enchantment amongst the pixie folk?

EC: Yeah, happens to be the case, yeah
MR: And 'er name's Lucy you see as well so she deserves a little mention
EC: Ah, yeah that's good that, yeah

MR: So Lucy's Hamper₁ what's that about then? Is it a sort of picnicking anthem for our time?

EC: That's it. That's the kind of idea, yeah
MR: Lovely, right well we'll have it then shall we?
EC: Right you are. Ok

Lucy's Harper
Later on...


MR: Truly wonderful . Ur, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, ur with the live version of the current single Lucy's Hamper, and they'll be back throughout the show with more Eurovision song contest entries from a parallel universe

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