Cerys Matthews: Dylan got me off drugs
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Former Catatonia singer and one-time professional indie-rock drunkard Cerys Matthews - soon to release her second solo album - has told someone, somewhere, that Bob Dylan and the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens helped her kick her drug habit.
The singer received phone calls from both singers - Stevens, of course, is now known as Yusuf Islam - at a time when her heroin use was getting just silly.
"I couldn't walk, couldn't breathe. I was allergic to heroin," said Matthews, presumably unaware that doing such hard drugs isn't generally good for your body. Or anyone's body, for that matter. Even mine. And I've been known to snort powdered bowling balls.
"I had a telephone call from Bob Dylan and from Yusuf Islam in a two-week period and it gave me the confidence to follow what my heart was telling me, which was just to get out. I don't know why they rang, it happened out of the blue.
"I'd like to keep the conversations private but it was a strange time because I'd almost given up hope on everything and started to lose the plot a bit, and that's a pretty sorry place to be. Then these spiritual guides called and it helped me gather strength to change things and start again."
Yay! One less drugged-up rock star to worry about; now, if only Dylan and friends would turn their attentions the way of... oh, youknowwho.
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i had a little dance with Cerys after her show last wednesday. true story.
also watch No Direction Home over the weekend. how amazing is that dvd !
"I'd like to keep the conversations private"
Well shut up then you silly moo.
I quite like Cerys actually. She's nice.
yes she is !
And a great frontwoman too !
wow
had no idea she was such a smackhead. shame. can't imagine dylan would understand a word she was saying though...
that was a great show
i got a song dedicated to me! well, not exactly to me but t'other half, but she was blessing us both. love her.
how the fuck does dylan know who cerys matthews is?
???
also: best use of italics ever: "her heroin use was getting just silly."
Yeah right...
I reckon it was just one big opium dream... It's certainly more trippy than saying god told you to get off the skag.
last 2 Catatonia albums were weak
but before tha they were ace !
And Cerys put a great show !
Fucking hell!
I never knew she was on the junks!
I once lit her cigarette in the Welsh Club in Cardiff. She winked at me and I nearly fell over.
Bob Dylan knows her because she's married to someone who was in his band once. Bucky Baxter? Something like that.
blimey
i too am surprised she was a smackhead.
...
Someone get me a broom. Need to sweep up all these dropped names...
Micky
(that's Mick Jagger) got me off the Smirnoff Ices. Robbie (Robert Plant) curbed my Red Bull addiction.
all the catatonia albums...
...from undrugged Cerys are terrible. All the ones from when she's in a drug ridden hole of dispair are much better. This is a good thing for her and a bad thing for any future material she may be looking to release.
the irony is
that Cerys only took up the drugs after a long chat with keith richards...
How to get Bob Dylan to call you on the phone:
Marry someone who he knows
Get fucked on Heroin
How to reinvent yourself from britpop mediocrity to Nashville country singer:
Marry a Nashville record producer (who knows Bob Dylan)
Why didn't I think of this!
Sad
but very true. I like my rock stars skagged to the eyes and churning out something ALIVE as they teeter on the brink of death. Any ideas of reformed junkies who are doing anything interesting? There must be some...
smack
was she on the horse when she wrote Road Rage?
that would explain it being appaling....
that's quite some lengths
to go for a name drop.
i moved to nashville, had a baby, went to rehab, but yeah it was those phone calls from bobby d and Yus that got me off drugs.
gag.
her music
has always been complete shite anyway. couldnt care less if she took smack or not. i'd like to give her (a) smack every time i hear her bewilderingly terrible singing voice.
what a pretentious
thing to come out and say 'oh bob and cat rang me...i would like to keep it to myself though'
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