From: Ponte, Kai, kponte@isd.sbcounty.gov Subject: RE: The Church in the German press Date: 2/15/2002 1:05:33 PM To: "'FullartonR@aol.com'", FullartonR@aol.com seance@lists.no-fi.com >Zillo - 2 pager in colour using one of those new "awful" promo photos. >The title translates as Steve >Kilbey saying something like "I want to become Leonard Cohen" I did a translation of most of the article. My head hurt after awhile so I didn't finish. Can I just say how much I hate translating? Anyway, here's the Zillo article. I used to read them alot when I lived there and found them one of the best mags in Germany. It doesn't say much about the album, it is just an interview with Steve Kilbey about the Church in general. There may be more but this is what I got from the web. KP --------------- For over 20 years Steve Kilbey has been the singer and songwriter of the Australian alternative group "The Church". A considerable timespan for independent bands. Since their founding in 1980 they have published 12 albums; four Compilations document the work of that band. With the '88 release "Starfish" they finally saw large success. The hits "Reptile" and "Under the Milky Way" became classics, and they recieved a gold album. Those reached another high point with the 1992 record, "Priest=Aura". Although The Church released more albums in the 90's, they had to fight with a flood of other new music. But the chaff always is separated from the wheat and that brings good chances for the new 13th album, "After Everything Now This". I am in the Cafe of the Radisson hotel in Hamburug, when the nice press lady looks over to me and introduces me to a friendly looking gentleman with grey sideburns: Singer Steve. Yesterday it was in Cologne, today Hamburg. Whether the promotion work is still fun after 20 years in the music business? "Yeah, well, look at it this way: someone asks you whether you would have the desire to travel to different countries. You will stay in nice hotels and eat in cosy Cafes, in order to tell your story all day long. Would you say no?" I think about it and then agree. "Occasionally I take somewhat more time for my family. I must thank this job for the ability to do that. I wouldn't be able to spend the time if I had another job. Additionally I enjoy it traveling around Europe. I would make it last the whole year - so long someone else pays for it." How is it you find success in the today's Independent scene? "The question is whether these scenes exist at all. During our most successful phase, in the late 80's, we travelled the whole world. And what did we hear? The New Yorkers said: Oh, I wish I which in Sydney, because OF the scene there.' And the people in Sydney wished to be in New York, because the scene was there. When I was younger, these scenes always seemed to me like a fog. And the more deeply I immersed myself into the smoke screen, the more foggy and distant these scenes seemed. I would say, there are no 'scenes'. Nowhere. The people, which belong to a 'scene', are probably not at all aware of it, because they do not assume it in such a way at all.