Short interview with Brian, 1997

Today I want to share a short ♦𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪♦ with Brian that was printed in NME in 1997. The headline of the article was “Alien Sex Fiend” which is funnily also the name of an English goth band from the 80ies, a genre Brian never liked to be mistaken for. “Don't label me!” as a T-shirt said that he wore in a TV show once in late 1995.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗦𝗘𝗫 𝗦𝗬𝗠𝗕𝗢𝗟?
📢 “I think people expect me to be very saucy. But it's not always easy to be that sexy, especially since we're the first generation that since our awakening have been told that water is poison and sex is death. I mean, I grew up very confused. On a daily basis I was mistaken for a girl, even if I hadn't shaved or something like that.I'd walk down Deptford High Street and black guys would shout 'Oi, mate! You look like a woman. Sort it out.' It started to intrigue me, it really did. When you're walking into the gents people looking twice. Even when you're taking a piss next to them, y'know.”

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗩𝗘 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗗?
📢 “The greatest lay?! There've been a few. I mean, actually the greatest lay has got to be with someone you're really in love with so I guess that's still to come.”

𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚?
📢 “He he he. But no, there's been a few times where the sex has really beew quite... masterful. In terms of technique, amazing. The other person, I hasten to add, not me, I'm just the receiver, haha!”
(NME, "Alien Sex Fiend, 1997)

Post by Silke