FREE ISSUE 2 - AUTUMN 2000 Say Hello 2 Heaven PLUS... PLACEBO . QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE . LINKIN PARK MARILYN MANSON . THE CROCKETTS . IDLEWILD . THE JUNKET If you love ROCK MUSIC you know what it’s like to live in an ALTERNATIVE dimension. When you listen to the records you LOVE, TIME becomes something you can fly back and forth through. The artists featured in CHILDREN OF GRAFFITI offer you a feeling of OMNIPRESENCE, a sense that something about the way we communicate is NOT TRANSITORY. This music is NOT DISPOSABLE. And neither is this magazine. Collect all 12 issues and use them as your doorway to an era when bands broke out of the backrooms and into your hearts. Contents 4. SAWYER SAYS Editorial. Rant. Diatribe. Discussion. Deep. Pointless. Call it what you want. 5. ALL TIME ALBUM TWO Reflecting on Nirvana’s frightening finale, ‘In Utero’. 5. OOH... THIS IS NEW! Placebo, Queens Of The Stone Age, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson album reports. 8. TIME OF OUR LIFE The Crocketts, Idlewild, The Junket live reviews. 9. WHERE WE ARE Profile of the best club night in the world: Fazer. 10. it means everything Devastating David writing devastatingly about Nirvana and how they make him feel funny. 11. SHAMELESS SELF- PROMOTION David talks hard about our song ‘Nights Like Wolves’. 12. TOP 10 Songs that rocked our year 2000. SAWYER SAYS ISSUE 2 - AUTUMN 2000 ALL TIME ALBUM TWO ISSUE 2 - AUTUMN 2000 “Welcome to the jungle.” that the crowd stop leaping was already weird that I’d NIRVANA, IN UTERO (GEFFEN) announcing that, “Teenage himself better at that “It’s a big, bad world.” around like wild animals. At just hopped into his van. angst has paid off well” to than any other musician “You’ll get eaten alive...” The Drive-In think jumping up those questions peppering around. And on ‘In Utero’ Blah blah blah. There’s no and down is too dangerous. Maybe, then, it’s people closing shot ‘All Apolo- he does it again – on need to get all metaphory. Which means they’re allowed like me who give the city a gies’: “What else could ‘Rape Me’ he re-uses the Just give it to me straight. to get their emotions out, bad name. I’m the stranger I be? What else should I ubiquitous ‘Smells Like And ‘it’ isn’t some kind of but everyone else just has to that will stick my head say?” You can’t listen Teen Spirit’ riff in a euphemism. Honestly. I’m stand there. Bloody bands. through your window simply to those lyrics without way that could only appear starting to think you don’t because it’s open. And I’m seeing the doomed rhetoric unimaginative to the know me at all. And, really, So, yeah, artists want the girl who will tap you flip-flopping on the floor densest of listeners. all this terrifying wordplay it all their own way. But on the shoulder because she like a fish out of water. seems to be the most fright- don’t we all? I know I thinks you might be Dave ‘In Utero’ is scarier than ening thing about the city. I do. Riches. Why not? Who Grohl. But really you’re ‘Dumb’ and ‘Pennyroyal Nirvana’s debut ‘Bleach’ haven’t come across anything wouldn’t want a diamond just someone who tries to Tea’ are perhaps the and a thousand times as else to be scared of. Apart tiara to wear around Camden look like him and I should tracks that set this album bitter as ‘Nevermind’. from all the moaning. Have Market? But then there’s have known better because apart from its prede- Like existence itself, you ever been surrounded by all the hard work that goes surely Dave Grohl would Whilst ‘Nevermind’ was the cessor, proof, as they it is at once confus- so many frowny faces in one into earning enough rubies never wear a Kurt Cobain album that broke Nirvana are, that Nirvana’s MTV ing and obvious, angry place? Every music T-shirt. Which means all over the world, it Unplugged set was far but resigned. It is a venue is packed at the if the city is a seems that ‘In Utero’ was from a fluke. Cobain may few hundred comedowns edges with the most EVERYBODY CHILL OUT. jungle at all, then the one that finally broke not write overtly sophis- too many. But it proved depressed people in the it’s the cartoon kind, Kurt Cobain. And listening ticated music, but the one thing for sure. Kurt world EVER. And I mean Be like Roddy Woomble. where the animals to this masterpiece now, best artists are able to Cobain was indeed a voice literally at the edges. are nowhere near as it’s bloody obvious that streamline their complex for a generation. And The kids in the middle scary when you get up it’s as much a suicide ideas in ways that people ‘In Utero’ was his final, trying to get close to the to brighten up my grungey close to them. Take Liam note as an album. From the can understand. With shocking truth. stage are fine. It’s the A&R wardrobe. Do I really want Gallagher. I went to see masterful, knowing opening ‘Nevermind’ and to his own scouts, the sound engineers, that? Hmmm. Not so much. some weird Cajun-influenced line that finds Cobain distress, Cobain proved the promoters, the managers, Contradictions. Hypocrisies. band called Menlo Park at the journalists and the Paradoxes. We’re all full Shoreditch Town Hall and the producers – all those people of them. Whatever. EVERY- Oasis frontman happened to who linger on the fringes BODY CHILL OUT. Be like be standing next to me. From of every small gig. “Bloody Roddy Woomble. “I’ve been a distance, then, he’s the OOH... THIS IS NEW! bands!” they complain at looking for a nice pair tough guy of British indie every opportunity. of brogues,” the Scottish music. In reality, he’s terrier confided in me, smaller than you’d think. PLACEBO, BLACK MARKET in context. It may kick off me now,’ Molko sings on Maybe it’s fair enough. mid-power cut, at the Barfly I reckon even I’d have a MUSIC (ELEVATOR LADY) like The Chemical Brothers ‘Days Before You Came’ I went to Leeds Festival Sessions. Life’s easier when good chance with him in a but it’s not an attempt and if you absorb ‘Black recently and having ‘acci- you keep things in perspec- wrestle. And, yes, maybe Listening to a Placebo to jump a train – instead Market Music’ then you’ll dentally’ bumped into At The tive. A few months later, it’s a big, bad world. But record is like going to a it represents the futility have no choice. ‘Slave To Drive-In’s guitarist Omar the point was emphasised isn’t that true anywhere? party in an electric storm. of trying to start a dance The Wage’ is its hook, its Rodriguez, he told me about when I found Conor Oberst, And isn’t it better when And if the first self-ti- when no one wants to dance crack cocaine, but preced- their recent tour. “We came otherwise known as Bright you’ve got approximately a tled album was the yell of anymore. ‘Change your taste ing it are the hypnotic really close to death, almost Eyes, sitting in the back of million live music venues on revellers going full-throt- in men’ becomes ‘change the ‘Passive Aggressive’, the sliding off the road. It was his little touring vehicle your doorstep. tle and second release record’ becomes ‘change frank ‘Black-Eyed’ and the pretty scary,” he said. I outside The Monarch. It was ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ your life’ and the response desperate ‘Blue American’. put on my best little-fright- the middle of the afternoon As for getting eaten alive, was the soundtrack of the is always ‘I can’t’ or ‘I Placebo have lined these ened-girl look and gasped. and he was drinking steadily well, the city’s so expen- aftermath, ‘Black Market won’t’. The lead-off track, tracks up like a trail of His drummer friend Tony from a bottle of red wine. sive that you can hardly Music’ is the noise of the then, is typical of a gunpowder. Light a match Hajjar expanded: “Whatever “Writing is something I afford a bagel which means same party a year later. record that might look like and watch the world burn. feelings we have come out have to do to justify my you end up way too skinny It’s dislocating and it one thing but is actually in the music.” Which might existence as a person,” he to end up looking anything will devour you. something else. explain why the Texans sound insisted. “Even if it’s not like a decent meal. And if like a car crash, but it’s of worth to anyone other you wouldn’t even fill little Single ‘Taste Of Men’ makes It’s the sound of a body tricky to quite get past the than myself.” I wanted to Liam Gallagher up then you’ll for a powerful opening, its and mind as separate band’s mid-show instructions give him a cuddle. But it probably be okay. impact multiplied when set entities. ‘Won’t you join 4 4 WWW.CHILDRENOFGRAFFITI.COM WWW.CHILDRENOFGRAFFITI.COM 5 OOH... THIS IS NEW! ISSUE 2 - AUTUMN 2000 OOH... THIS IS NEW! ISSUE 2 - AUTUMN 2000 QOTSA, RATED R (INTERSCOPE) friend Nick Oliveri, are this record, or Manson in clearly having the best general, you shouldn’t time ever? It’s their ignore the fact that he’s full-throttle approach good fun.