Chords for Wet Wet Wet - The Wets Tour of Glasgow on Philip & Emma - GMTV - 1997

Right, we're going to be joining them live from Glasgow any minute now, but first of all,
here's their exclusive guided tour around their hometown.
My name's Billy Idle and I'm looking for a white wedding. _
Hi, I'm Tony.
Hi, I'm Tony.
Hi, I'm Tony.
Hi, my name's Neil and I'm running for the Whiz.
My name's Dave Clark and I'm [Eb] a_
[F] Hello, my name's Mark O'Pella, I'm the lead singer of the Scottish band, Wibbit.
_ _ Hi, we're Wibbit, we're in this town, Glasgow.
_ _ [Ab] _ What?!
Don't get me [Bb] wrong now, [Fm] baby.
_ Don't get me [Bb] wrong, baby.
[Cm] Strange, strange, strange, the things that happen to me.
I don't know if I'm [Eb] coming of good, but baby, [Cm] yeah, strange, strange, strange.
This is the scene of our first gig.
Historic time for us, we supported a band called King.
[G] We're rallying out.
[N] Easy, easy.
But [B] probably our mothers and fathers met [D] here many years ago, so [Bm] it's a kind of landmark.
[N] Being a girl of Sweden, you know, it was always an ambition.
Being in a band to play here.
[G] Okay, this was also the scene of [Gm] our first televised [Ab] interview, which [G] was very nerve-wracking indeed.
_ [Ab] And 1985 it was, I think, 1985.
[Eb] As you can see, a nice intimate [F] rock and roll gig.
It looks a lot smaller than we remember it [A] being, but I guess when you're young and naive,
a place this size could look like a stadium to you.
But we come [D] back and it seems really small.
But it's one of the best gigs in Glasgow because of the atmosphere.
Very [G] unique.
Have [N] they played it again since?
Yeah.
Funnily enough.
The Barrel Rats.
Freak are unique.
The Barrel Rats.
Okay, we're in Paddy's Market, which was started in the 1820s by Irish immigrants.
This is the flea market of Glasgow.
This is where you can buy a dead man's suit for about £5.
If you don't have much money, you can dress yourself.
Stage gear, a speciality.
And then we're going to try and go for a wander through and see what happens.
_ _ [A] _
Beautiful, beautiful.
[N] _ _ Guess what I find?
How about a [G] nice green waistcoat?
This would suit you.
[G] A wee bit of EQ [Eb] here.
_ _ [F] Fixing it out here.
[Bb] We came in here one [Cm] New Year, on the 4th of January, [F] to record a track,
which we weren't really that [Cm] familiar with, called Love Is All Around.
For a movie, we weren't [C] familiar with a title called Four Winds and a Funeral.
Possibly take Fairleigh Helensbrook.
_ [F] And so basically [Bb] we came in for two days and [G] didn't really give it [Eb] much thought.
Recorded a track [F] and it went on to stay number one [Bb] for three weeks.
[Fm] This one we called [Eb] Even This Taste Like Destiny.
_ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ Well, this [Eb] is the Gallery of Modern Art.
[Cm] Originally it was [N] the home of the Cunningham family, who were tea merchants.
It was a family home, but then they gave it up and it went to the exchange people.
At one point it was the Royal Bank of Scotland.
_ And then after that it became the Stirling Library.
_ [Ab]
And [C] then in 1990 they closed it and it became this, [Eb] the Gallery of Modern Art, which is very superb.
We're in Glasgow, quite near the centre.
Over there [G] is Clyde Bank, the small town just out the edge of Glasgow, where Wet O' Wet started.
[Eb] It's a fishing village off the coast [A] of the Clyde.
It is indeed, yeah.
[B] Small fishing village.
We're out west.
And behind that we have the [N] hills.
Kilpatrick Hills.
Countryside.
Beautiful, beautiful, man.
So [D] we stay out that way, or grew up over that way.
_ _ [A] _
And Glasgow's kind of been reborn [E] in the last, say, ten [D] years.
It's about art, it's about design, it's about good restaurants, [E] great clubs.
And I guess number one is the fact that it actually has a heart.
[A] It's a big city with a village attitude, and [G] that's Glasgow, and that's where we live and [F] why we stay here.
What's that [E] on?
What's that on?
What are you talking about?
[A] _ _ _ _
They should certainly be working [N] for the tourist board.
I think they should.
And I love, it's put that song on my brain again from Four Weddings and a Funeral, which was on everybody's brain.
Do you remember when it was out?
Oh yeah.
Now hopefully we can join them in Glasgow, with a bit of luck.
Hello there!
It's Marty and Tommy, hiya!
How you doing guys?
Fine, fine.
First question.
Ready for our in-depth interview.
Well Marty, it's going to be very in-depth, because the [D] first question is_
Talk me through your hair.
Well I don't see what all the fuss is about, you know.
A guy puts his hair back to its original colour and_
_ Good response!
[B] It gives me thinking I would be like the silver fox like yourself there, Philip.
Yeah I know, I [N] know.
Absolutely.
_ _ You see I gave up in the end.
Because mine's not far off that colour I have to say.
Yeah but the beard is the two-tone.
Unless it's at the top of Stonemarch, yes.
People kept coming up to me [Db] in supermarkets and saying, ah you look [Ab] like a badger.
A badger?
So I stopped in the end.
[N] He's a badger.
So are you actually based in Glasgow?
Yeah, we still stay based in Glasgow.
It's an inspiring city for us in as much as we can understand Glasgow, the working class background.
So a lot of our songs, the ideas come from the place that's right behind us here, Glasgow.
And [E] what about you, Marty?
Well yeah, I still stay based in Scotland.
Scotland won't get rid of me that easy.
Do [B] you have houses elsewhere?
[G] Oh yeah, yeah.
All over the world.
Obviously, yeah.
Obviously, you know London, Paris, Rome.
Have you [N] been forced as a pop star to move out of Glasgow?
Obviously [Ab] you've got to spend more time away, but what about living away?
[Db] Living away?
We spend a [D] lot of time travelling, to be [N] honest.
Probably six or seven months of the year spent on the road.
So we get the chance to live in these places, we get to stay in Paris doing the work.
And when the work finishes we come home.
So I think that's one of the [Db] reasons why we still stay in Glasgow.
[Bb] Because when we come back [D] it refreshes the batteries, recharges [Gb] us up, gives us inspiration.
I also [Ab] think after that film we've just seen, when you come back and you're resting in between tour, you might get a job with the Scottish Tourist Board.
We were good, weren't we?
Yes, that's right.
There's juice loose about this hoose.
[G] That's my favourite.
I love it.
There's juice loose about this hoose.
I can do a [Eb] good accent.
Is that a good accent?
[D] Yeah, yeah.
_ When I first started doing the afternoons, then I did [Ab] Saturday mornings and then worked with Emma on Saturday mornings, we have [Ab] seen so many bands come and go.
And you [Gb] guys have been there consistently right the [Ab] way through.
What is the secret?
Why?
What's happened?
It's [Eb] obviously weight fluctuation and haircuts.
[Ab] That must be what it is.
That's [Db] the secret.
And the occasional good song, obviously.
When you did Four Weddings and [D] a Funeral, did you have any idea, had you seen the film when you did the song and everything?
[N] We'd seen a rough cut of it without any of the background music.
_ We loved it.
We thought [G] it was really funny.
It's good to see the English laughing at themselves, that kind of upper crust thing.
We found it really funny.
But what really happened is the song [Db] actually caught our imagination as well, this naive little song.
[N] And for us to get involved with a movie, it was quite special.
Our careers always went one step [Gb] at a time and that was another door that opened up.
Someone said, we'd like to be [C] involved with a film.
[Ab] We hope that's it.
We're going to have to stop, which is a great shame because we [G] could have talked all morning.
Thank you [N] very much, Adi, for joining us.
Give our love to Glasgow.