FREE ISSUE 1 - SPRING 2000 THE BAND WHO STOLE YOUR HEART AND SOUL PLUS... BUSH . THE JUNKET . HIM . DEFTONES MY VITRIOL . TWIST . SLIPKNOT 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 1 Our retrospective review of Pearl Jam’s life-changing debut album ‘Ten’. 5. OOH... THIS IS NEW! Bush, The Junket, HIM and Deftones album reviews. 8. TIME OF OUR LIFE My Vitriol, Twist and Slipknot gig reports. 9. WHERE WE ARE Profile of our favourite pub - The Falcon. 10. it means everything Beautiful Chambers writing beautifully about his memories of Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’. 11. SHAMELESS SELF- PROMOTION A David’s-eye view of our song ‘The Lights Will Go Up’. 12. TOP 10 Songs that remind us of being tiny 13 year olds. SAWYER SAYS ALL TIME ALBUM ONE Rock and Roll. I know den, before ending up at edgy Som Wardner in The PEARL JAM, TEN (EPIC) album in dedication to his head of the grunge scene, you kids aren’t calling Shepherds Bush Empire in Water Rats or anywhere lost friend but no one in the Pearl Jam debut is it that these days but November. Okay, they were else around, he never much the outside world seems a defining moment in the that’s how I still like first on and the main act looks like he’s making the to care much. Nirvana have history of music. Vedder’s to think about it. Like a was Shack but singer Chris front covers of the weekly been to England and Alice bluesy lyrics and soulful rock through your green- Martin was quite the centre music papers. But he is. In Chains have been oddly vocals are essential to house of a life or a roll of attention at the bar Cheer up, dude. You’re billed on tour with Slayer, the record’s impact. He in the hay. Like a rock-et upstairs, record industry doing good. Megadeth and Anthrax but tells stories of abuse to the moon or a drive in types hovering all around you’re seriously crazy if and agony as if he’s lived a Rolls-Royce. Like a... him like he was a very I love living in the city. you think every kid who right through them. Hope- well, you get the point. delicious jam sandwich. I love the year 2000. lives for rock music is fully he hasn’t. There’s something in the soon going to be looking in Or maybe you don’t. ‘Cause January 2000 suggested air and writing this page awe at this rainy, buzz-saw Either way, the pain is it looked like you were things were really on gives me an excuse to of a place. transferrable and universal, going to need a micro- the up. I saw Twist play randomly throw myself in and married to some of the scope to find music that in The Falcon. After- the way of any band or But, then, Eddie Vedder’s most unforgettable guitar was going to make your wards, I spoke to the interesting person that Seattle in April 1991. only recently moved into lines ever written, it’s hair stand on end as the band and one of them crosses my path. “You The city of dreams? Not town and no one’s heard overwhelmingly tangible. Twentieth Century dropped told me about being at a are a God,” I told Robbie really. Andrew Wood, ‘Ten’ yet. With Stone Trying to pinpoint ‘Ten’’s its final curtain. And, festival, getting off her Williams when I saw him at peacocking frontman of Gossard and Jeff Ament perfect moments is point- of course, the microscope head and ending up in a the Keith Moon bar. Which local stars-in-waiting from Mother Love Bone on less. It’s enough to observe would be in a box and is an odd thing to say, Mother Love Bone is dead. guitar and bass respec- that best known tracks the box was bound to be right? But what was Chris Cornell, his old tively and a singer soon ‘Alive’ and ‘Jeremy’ are not buried God knows where. he doing at an Incubus roommate has written an to be iconned as a figure- stand-out. They are typical. So you were going to “You are a God,” gig? Too weird. And pop need a map to locate stars freak me out. it, then a spade to I told Robbie Williams... What I like about my unearth it and then favourite musicians, OOH... THIS IS NEW! a key to get it open. and what I’m discov- Hell on Earth. I need toilet, thinking: “I am ering to be truer than I to have a lie-down just Doctor Who.” I giggled could have ever imagined It’s a ridiculous state of ‘Spacetravel’, on ‘Letting thinking about all that at everything the four when the city was only a BUSH, THE SCIENCE OF affairs. Bush’s debut long- The Cables Sleep’ are both effort. I thought that Rock Twist girls said and when place in my dreams, is THINGS (INTERSCOPE) player was an achievement distant like a mountain and Roll was easy. Like I went back to the boy I that they all hang out in ‘I memorise the basics,’ of monolithic proportions. view and close-up like a me. Kidding. Although I am was with, he glared at the same places as the sings Gavin Rossdale as Second record ‘Razorblade memory you never realised lying down already, so... me. “I’m just doing stuff rest of us. They’re from ‘Warm Machine’, the opening Suitcase’, despite the you had. And there’s a fury for the Graffiti fanzine,” the same world. And so track on Bush’s third radio-conquering ‘Swal- on ‘Prize Fighter’ and ‘The Anyway, I moved to the I told him. My face was when I glanced across the album, explodes. lowed’, didn’t quite meet Disease Of The Dancing Cats’ city ‘cause I thought to flushed. Hell on Earth. downstairs room at The the same standard. But that actually makes sense of my post-sixth-form, small- Monarch the other week It’s an interesting opening ‘The Science Of Things’ the grunge comparisons. town self: ‘There must Elsewhere in the city, at this dude with big, given that the band’s is a massive statement be more to this SUCKFEST Feeder headlined The red spiky hair, I liked detractors would say that’s of intent. Stadium-sized If ‘The Science Of Things’ than someone’s letting Astoria. I’ve being crazy that the first thought I all this group have ever yet introverted, it’s a proves anything, it’s that on.’ The winter of 1999 for them since they played had wasn’t: ‘Oh, it’s the done. Widely disdained, tapestry of ruthlessly Bush have soul. showed some promise. Nine The Falcon last year. singer from Muse.’ Instead, particularly in the UK melodic guitar playing and guys from Iowa dressed in Drummer Jon Lee was on I thought: ‘I recognise (only in the UK?) for consciously acute vocals. At once submerged and red boiler suits, jumping crutches back then and that guy from The Falcon.’ taking the blueprint of ‘The Chemicals Between Us’ fin-sharp, it’s a cusp-mil- off amp stacks and hitting such a sweetheart. “How grunge and then re-hashing is the noise of a band lennium blues record with each other around the head are you?” he asked me when That’s what it’s about. The it with no concern for its articulating the sound of added distortion and it with blunt instruments. we passed at the bottom of city isn’t just a city. It’s inherent essence, Bush are water – with ‘The Science glues the sound of falling Now That’s What I Call the stairs. I didn’t know a place where your favourite out on their own. Mainly, Of Things’, Bush have built Rome to the hopefulness of Music. At the other end what to say. My Vitriol songs turn into taxis and, those same cynics would a record that simulates a sunrise. of the scale, there was were on that Astoria whizzing around the streets, say, because that’s where the emergence of Atlantis little Coldplay who only bill as well and could you can see life exactly how they deserve to be. Exiled. - whilst the emotions on recently played The Camden take a leaf out of cheery it’s meant to be. And it’s not Banished. Barred. ‘English Fire’, on Falcon, my local drinking Feeder’s book. If you see such a suckfest after all... 4 4 WWW.CHILDRENOFGRAFFITI.COM WWW.CHILDRENOFGRAFFITI.COM 5 OOH... THIS IS NEW! OOH... THIS IS NEW! DEFTONES, WHITE PONY (MAVERICK) THE JUNKET, LUX SAFARI length debut with a is profoundly affecting. 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