![]() Photograph: 1996-98 AccuSoft Inc., All right/PR company handout ‘It took me years to get over the humiliation’ … Odin in their prime. I see all these young faces in the crowd and just think: ‘Wow!’” Odin “I see kids now with their leather jackets and long hair, totally believing that their band is going to make it, just like we did, but ironically, the film’s cult classic status has given us a whole new audience. In that time, we’ve toured with Motörhead, played the Reading festival and had a shared cover of Metal Hammer magazine last December. We recently celebrated our 30th anniversary. “When Alex and Corey were killed in car crashes, that knocked the stuffing out of me, but playing the Bang Your Head festival in Germany in 2008 revived my passions. I bumped into the president of Capitol in the elevator once and he said: ‘Your song, Me Against the World, should have been No1.’ I thought: ‘Well, you distributed it!’ It felt like we were running a race that we couldn’t win. We got a bit of notoriety and perhaps a little more money from promoters, but we were on the same independent label as Poison and the distributors, Capitol, put all their resources into them. ‘The film didn’t do much for our career’ … Borden today. I even got a couple of those investments.” Lizzy Borden I look pretty much the same and I’ve had a fantastic life. We’re all still friends, none of us are destitute and we’ve all carved a niche for ourselves without having to answer to anybody. Every once in a while we’ll play a Seduce gig, a couple of thousand people show up and it’s like playing a school reunion. Chuck plays in Negative Approach, a huge hardcore band. I’m now playing in Crud with the singer from Sponge and I play on lots of other people’s records. Whatever I could get a piece of, but I never gave up playing music. I bought a sports car, fell in love, and did a lot of work in the movies: post-production, camera guy, shampoo commercials. “I hated California, but ended up living there for 10 years. At that time, everyone wanted a big flamboyant singer like Vince Neil, to look good on MTV, but being a trio with no obvious frontman fucked us. “We had high hopes, but the band broke up a couple of years later. Before being interviewed, I asked if I could see what she’d already filmed so I didn’t make an idiot of myself, but I still kinda did. So we were driving round like stars in cars we didn’t own. Penelope noticed that, being from the Motor City, we were freaking out staring at all the Lamborghinis and Ferraris in LA, so she hired some for our interviews. “We signed to Miles Copeland’s IRS label in California just as the movie was being made,” Black says, “so our scenes in the movie are actually our first day in LA. I’ve got long hair, but I’m a businessman.” The Detroit trio were interviewed riding round in fast cars, while young guitarist David Black pondered his distant middle age: “When I’m 45 I’ll be retired and have stocks, bonds and investments. ‘We’re all still friends, none of us are destitute’ …Seduce in the 80s. That’s what happens when you have a wonderful girlfriend who has a shitload of properties.” Seduce I’m not sure if the film helped or hindered us, but it’s been 27 years and I’m talking to you from beside the pool. We’ve more or less reactivated the 1989 lineup to work on a new album. ![]() We’ve done gigs where the crowd have been yelling ‘Fuck you, fags, you suck!’ and we played to 20 people in Arizona, but we had a couple of hundred at the Whiskey the other night. “I’ve been clean for 19 years, and have done everything from construction to being a stylist, but haven’t given up on London. People had to say: ‘No, Keith, he’s the guy who does the CD-ROM.’ But I got to party with Ronnie Wood. Keith was under the impression that I’d remixed them. I worked for the Rolling Stones for three years doing the CD-ROM for the Voodoo Lounge tour. “The band imploded in 1992, after our manager left us in New Orleans with no bus and no money. ‘My life was about drugs, vodka and girls’ … Nadir D’Priest, 2013.
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