Chords for Republica band interview 1996

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_ _ _ [Bm] Tell me about the early days in South London.
Well, when we first [B] started in South London, [G]
we didn't have any money or any equipment
really, we just had a couple of keyboards and we sort of rented someone's front room
[G] and had carpet on the walls for [Bm] soundproofing and stuff.
So it was quite hard, difficult
when we first started out, but I guess it's the same for any band, you know, and it just
took [G] us a couple of years to get it together, to get our own studio and stuff.
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [B] All of us when we first met, we'd all come out of the London club scene and we were a
little bit pissed off really with the music that was around at the time, you know.
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wanted to be in [Bm] like a bit of a punk, more of a punk band rather than just some dance
act, you know, that had lyrics that didn't mean anything to anybody, you know.
So, sort
of the hedonistic dreams that would have gone out of it for us really.
So we wanted to tour
and mix electronics [B] with guitars and songs, you know.
What's your favourite song on [A] the album?
_ [Bm] I've probably got a few, I mean, Drop Dead Gorgeous, because it's quite personal to me,
[B] but it's about someone I [C] know. _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ I grew up with bands like The Jam and The [B] Clash and Suzie from [E] Bound She's and Human
League and a lot of the electro pop sounds of the [A] 80s.
And then I really got into Acid
House and [Abm] techno in 1988 onwards, so [B] just a mixture of those really.
What about the other members in the band?
What were their musical influences [A] before
coming to Republica?
Well, Tim, he used to be in a band called Flowered Up, which were like the Happy [B] Mondays.
Toddy was into disco and soul and stuff like that and had mixed people like Barbra Streisand
and Bjork and all different sorts of people like that, so it's a bit of a mixture.
Johnny
Mayall had his own band called Soul Family Sensation _ and had done a lot of pop stuff.
And Dave Barbarossa, who's over there, sitting over there, he played in Adam the Ant and
Bow Wow Wow, which I'm sure you've heard.
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I like seeing you [B] now.
What was it like touring with Adam Ant?
Was it wild back then?
[B] No, it's pretty [F] conservative, really.
It's _ _ very ordinary, very professional and seen
it all, done it all sort of thing. _
I like this a lot.
_ _ Give it the biggin' pretty much.
_ _ No wild stories to tell?
None that would not make your hair curl, no.
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_ _ _ [Bm] What about the artwork on the CD? _
Where did that come from?
Basically, it's through a friend of our manager.
We were just really into Russian constructionism
and symbolism of Republica.
_ We're not a political [B] band, but we quite like the pop culture [G] of
the symbolism [Bm] of the red and _ the flags and banners, art gigs and stuff like that.
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this friend of our manager came up with the idea that there was a Russian worker working
in a factory in his favourite band, Republica.
He'd have a little shrine to them on his workplace
desk.
So that's what [G] the cover of [A] the album is.
Interesting.
Is there [E] a difference between playing in London [Bm] and playing in the US?
Oh, there's a major difference.
We're not very well known in [B] England.
The reactions
[C] like moshing and crowd surfing and all [Bm] that have just been totally wild to us.
We don't
really get that over in England, even if you're a really quite well [A]-known band.
_ _ _ [Bm] I think people
over here are more open-minded to music and they enjoy themselves for music's sake, which
is really important.
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