Summer Movie Mayhem Artsweek Gives You the Lowdown on Seven Hot Summer Movies
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Odds are this one won’t end with Cu I’ve seen the new releases for this summer, and man sack holding a boom box Crush” to thwart the plans trouble” Roberts stars in (Cameron Diaz). Poor guy are they HOTlt (sizzle, sizzle) ((hmmm bop)) blasting Peter Gabriel. of a pair of supervillains this romantic comedy that has Julia Roberts and I know you all are eagerly waiting in anticipation of “Batman and Robin” played by the star of "Her looks to be the hot “chick Cameron Diaz fightin; Amy Grant’s new album Behind the Eyes, which comes (June 20): This one has Dr. cules Goes Bananas” and flick’’ of summer. 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Being \ Yeah, I mean ... at the in-store we had whatever. sands of groupies and being, like, on Grand Royal, they’re moré sensitive to to leave out the back door and they were Would you be stoked If you broke mobbed. Yeah, that’s it, being mobbed. In us. They’re not just gonna [go for] a charts like we don’t wantyou to go in there ’cos A m erica ? fact, the youngest member of the Glasgow Oh yeah. I’d love to be popular any (uh, that’s Scotland to you mate) trio, where in the world.... “Hie whole thing in 18- year-old john disco, knew that one Britain is they’re so British. They expect day if he was famous he would have to be bands to go break America and [in] ushered out a back entrance due to bis- America you can’t get anywhere with a mania. strictly British sound. Breaking America, They may not be as big as the Whopper, it’s truly hard especially when you’re not but with killer “teen-c power” tunes, they mainstream-sounding, ’cos we’re not re sure are doing their best to get there. And ally pop-based it would take a lot of really of course being backed by the Beastie hard work, but it would be great. Boys-run Grand Royal record label state Would you want to do Lollapalooza? side can do nothing other than help the We’ve been asked but I think we turned spirited bunch, which also includes it down. 19- year-old manda rin and 20-year-old Do you think American music is more sci-fi steven. exciting than British? Artsweek spoke with john disco, of I think anything’s more exciting than whom the announcer at the beginning of Britain. I mean Britain’s got its great their album the new transistor heroes bands, like its got the Prodigy, but this says, “All hail the disco king / gaze in whole thing about trying to be like other wonderment of his skanldng ability but British bands — there’s so much retro don’t stare too long, his disco feet can music activity in Britain. Lots of bands hypnotize / Hear him say Travolta ain’t sound the same, and there’s a really bad got nothing on me.’” attitude in the press as well. We get a re ally bad attitude from other bands as well. Artsweek So what do you think the R eally? novelty is being in a teen band? Yeah, we get slagged off all the time by john disco: I don’t know, I don’t get other bands in Britain for being like these the whole thing. I mean obviously I’ve kids that can play the guitar. We’re just never been in any other sort of band. I’m tired of hearing that shit. You know Bri enjoying it I don’t feel like we’re any dif tain may [have been] a priority two or ferent because we’re teenagers or three years ago but we like America. ... anything. It’d be neat to go back to Britain after do Do you think people have tried to take ing well in America and it’s just like, advantage of you because of your age? “What do you think of that?” Yeah.