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Date Posted: 23:40:21 01/04/08 Fri
High rollers
YORK rock legend Stevie Ze Suicide is assembling a new lineup of Ze Suicide and playing in a Bay City Rollers band with original Rollers pin-up Eric Faulkner.
The one-time UK Subs drummer turned heavy rock vocalist and songwriter says he is "getting a hot band together". "I'm talking with Big John McCoy of GMT and I've emailed Rat Scabies, from The Damned, about the drummer's position, so I could have John McCoy on bass and Rat Scabies on drums, " says Stevie, whose band is on the list for this year's Download Festival.
In the meantime, he has plans to record two new Ze Suicide songs, White Trash and Into The Void, at a studio in Derby.
His commitments with Eric Faulkner are on-going "I'm like a fireman. I feel like I'm on alert, " says Stevie, who first took up the invitation to pull on the tartan to play the old Bay City Rollers hits last summer at the Fun Under The Stars night of Seventies nostalgia at Fakenham.
"First of all I got a call from my promoters - Eric Faulkner and I share the same promoters - saying that Eric was doing a gig in Selby, just on his own, playing acoustic guitar, and I was asked if I'd like to go down and I said I'd play. So I got on stage to back him and we got on really well, but then I didn't hear from him for a couple of months and I just thought, 'well, that was a nice gig; time to move on'.
"Then suddenly he rang me and said 'It's Eric'. 'Eric who?', I said.
'Eric Faulkner.' 'Oh, Rollers Eric, ' I said, and we started talking about the Rollers and the UK Subs.
"He said, can you play bass? , and I said 'yes' as I wanted the gig, even though I didn't play bass, though I do play guitar in Ze Suicide. So I said ' do you want me to play drums?', and he said 'No, I want you on the front line'."
Needing to learn bass quickly, Stevie had to think on his feet. "I went to Hessle Music, a guy called Howard Jennings, and I bought myself a brand new bass and a hand-made coffin-shaped bass case, and I rang Trevor Bolder, who had played bass in Bowie's Spiders From Mars and had produced my album, to ask him for some tips, " he says.
"I spent an afternoon with him, where he ran me through the basics of bass playing, and I was ready to go! Eric's crew picked me up and drove me the six hours to Hastings for three days of rehearsals before the Fakenham show. I had some Rollers trousers made by a friend of my mum's: I got some white jeans and had them customised with tartan and some zips to make them more punk!"
Stevie has since been in his element playing for Eric Faulkner's Rollers. "Yeah, I bought their records and I used to love their stuff as I was a Beatles fan, a pop fan, and it's all pop isn't it? I was talking with The Ramones one day and they were massive Rollers fans, " he says.
"The Rollers were hammered by the so-called arty-farty serious musicians, but we don't care. It's got to be better to be chased by a load of chicks - and they're all still chanting 'We want the Rollers': middle-aged mothers, girls in their 20s, teenage chicks."
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