He's not anywhere to be found in the ads for this new Pulp doc. Even thought he didn't play the show it is a bit weird that he's somewhat absent from everything.
Did they fall out again on tour or was he only on board for the first leg?
I think it's no more complicated than just not wanting to fly & I imagine once they're rehearsed to play without him it's a bit of a pain to have him drift in & out.
Someone on here said a few months back that Russ had been interviewed for the film so it's pretty disappointing if it turns out he had no involvement in it.
He's so engaging on The Beat Is The Law DVD, and in practically any tv/radio interview with him (of which there are far too few).
There's the flying thing, and also in that Rhubarb Bomb fanzine interview he talks about how it was only really interesting to him to do stuff like playing festivals, where there was a danger of them either being bottled off, or converting a crowd that wasn't their existing fanbase. Playing to home crowds wasn't dangerous in the same way, so less interesting to him. I'm paraphrasing, but I think that was the gist of what he was saying.
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I'd forgotten that interview Sturdy so thanks for reminding me. At the time I thought it was a very interesting thing to say, he can be quite combative and hard headed can out Russell at times. I think that comes over in a lot of interviews and in just about every '80's show that I've heard. Maybe that's why he never seems to bother tuning his guitar. (that's a joke by the way)
He seemed quite happy at Glasto, where they certainly didn't need to convert the crowd. Less so a week later at Wireless, where he tried to flee the minute the show ended. Seemed to me that his main reason for doing the gigs may have been to finance the musical, and those original dates up to Electric Picnic would suffice. Of course, there's still no sign of the musical!
I would have expected him to do the gig as a sort of send off and celebration, but it never happened. The band were very reluctant to talk about him in the recent NME interview, who knows if we'll ever find out.
There's the flying thing, and also in that Rhubarb Bomb fanzine interview he talks about how it was only really interesting to him to do stuff like playing festivals, where there was a danger of them either being bottled off, or converting a crowd that wasn't their existing fanbase. Playing to home crowds wasn't dangerous in the same way, so less interesting to him. I'm paraphrasing, but I think that was the gist of what he was saying.
I find it a little bit egoistic just to perform for your own reasons and not for the fans.
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