"Record Labels are run by deviants. Moral vacuums in mid-priced suits" - DiS meets Martin Rossiter
This month Martin Rossiter. formerly of Gene, returns with a new album, The Defenestration of St Martin, a beautiful record of melodramatic, witty torch songs performed almost entirely as naked voice and piano, self released and funded through crowd-sourcing site Pledge. We ventured to a Brighton boozer on a windy Autumn afternoon to talk reunions, record company politics, expectations and slipping through the cracks of the music industry.
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Excellent interview
and refreshingly honest.
It's not just the music of Rossiter that's been missed, it's his personality. If people like him were still in bands now, the NME would be worth reading.
I like those songs
and I wasn't bothered about Gene just cos I was in a dance music phase at the time. Nice, thoughtful chap too by the sound of it.
thought provoking, witty and godammit!!!!.....
....funny!!!! best interview I've read all year, welcome back Martin.
He taught me at college
a genuinely very nice and funny man.
Martin Rossiter is a righteous and excellent man
and Gene deserved more than to be labelled as Smiths copyists. I actually preferred them, not least because I thought I could comfortably go for a drink with the frontman and actually enjoy it.
What a witty gent.
Once heckled him at a gig [I was very young and drunk] and he reacted in such a cool way I felt terribly ashamed.Album sounds very, very good.
I read this to kill five minutes
and couldn't tear myself away. What an eloquent, funny sort he is. Never heard or heard of Gene but just gave Defenestration a spin, loved it and happily ordered a copy.