Für meine Magisterarbeit traf ich Tim Burgess vorm Konzert in Berlin zum Interview. Da Tim der wohl netteste Mensch im Showbusiness ist, dachte ich mir, ich teile das Interview mal mit Euch. Natürlich haben wir auch über das damals aktuelle Album 'You Cross My Path' gesprochen, hier jedoch nur der Teil, bei dem es um Manchester geht.
How would you characterize the typical Charlatans sound?
TB: First of all it’s simply drums, bass, guitar and vocals. But we’re trying to create an ambient sound, typical to what we see and what we feel in the streets at the times. If I write a song right now it would probably be about this room.
You started back in the 90s in Manchester. Did you feel part of the Rave culture there?
TB: We kind of struggled really. Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses were going such a log time, ‘84/ ’85 and finally broke in 1989. After that it was a whole wave of new bands and people included us as well. Like a second generation Madchester. But we were quite smart, we knew if we align with that movement we would die with that movement. So kind of were there and are honoured to be part of that second generation and there were also a lot of good bands in that generation like Paris Angels, World of Twist. Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays they’re quite legendary but we’re still going. We came out in 1990 and Nirvana had a No. 1 hit in ’91 I guess and everybody was going like ‘Oh, the death of rave, here comes Seattle.’ And soon these people were going ‘The death of Seattle, here comes Britpop.’ Suddenly they were including us again in that movement which was basically Oasis and Blur and Pulp. But we felt more alone because we were never the head of a certain movement.
Was there a lot of competition or more friendship between the bands?
TB: It was quite a friendly scene. We all took good care of each other and played all the same gigs and venues. It was quite supportive. I mean I’m still good friends with Mani of the Roses and with Bez and Shaun of the Happy Mondays. I would as well call all of the Primal Scream guys my friends.
Drugs were a big thing in that scene. What role did they play in your life?
A very big role. I was a regular at the Hacienda. Thursdays was the indie night and Fridays and Saturdays the Chicago house and Detroit beats nights. That was ‘88/ ’89. It had its peak in 1990 when all the raves were happening. I took Ecstasy a lot for a long time until ’94 or so. And I smoked a lot of wheat then got into speed and coke. I was a drug user for about 10 years.
Nowadays you are a DJ yourself. What makes that so interesting for you?
You get to travel a lot and meet different people. You talk a lot about music and you get paid quite well. You have a different perspective than as a musician where you stand on the stage doing your thing. It’s quite different from being a musician. You can also teach people songs they didn’t know before. And you learn a lot about beats and tempos. On “You cross my path” I wanted to do a song that goes well with “I am the Resurrection” by The Stone Roses and “Rocks” by Primal Scream and in the end it turned out to be “Oh Vanity!”.
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