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EFM The Firm, The Voice

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Not according to this interview:

 

Looking back at the early 90s and your time in the spotlight, what for you was the highlight of the whole experience?

 

All those little achieved ambitions as we crossed them off our list of unachieved ambitions. Like releasing an album, being played on the radio, making a video, going in the charts, getting on Top of The Pops, selling out a gig, getting a gold disc. I always say that it never got any better than Reading Festival in 1991 because it was all so perfect We were never that popular again, even though we had a Number One album and signed a big money record deal. Everything just went so well that day, I remember turning up in the guest area and it was like The Beatles or The Pope had arrived. Everyone wanted to talk to us and take our photo.

 

 

What do you miss the most/least about these times?

 

Obviously the money is something I wish I had now. I'm back where I started before Carter financially. There's not a whole lot else I miss, apart from maybe being able to get in free to any gig that I want to and hanging around with famous people who would probably blank me now. I don't miss the stagefright, which got quite bad at times.

 

At what point did you realise it was all over for Carter USM?

 

May 24 1997 Swindon College.

We were definitely going through the motions by that point and that was the day of our first big violent punch up and I didn't want to be in the band from then on. It took me about another 30 gigs to summon the bottle up to tell the rest of the band.

 

Do you envisage working with Fruity again, either as Carter USM, or Who's The Daddy Now?

 

I doubt it. He sings on a song on my new album and plays a guitar solo on another and I sang backing vocals on his last album and on his musical soundtrack, so we still work together all the time. Everyone from the Carter time has reformed: PWEI, Wonderstuff, EMF, Jesus Jones, Neds etc and when they sell out a big gig in 20 minutes or something, then maybe it's tempting, but I'm quite content doing what I do at the moment. I'm working on my renaissance man image and I've got fiction to write. I think the thing that sets The Clash apart from all other bands is they resisted all the offers to reform. I'd like to be like The Clash.

 

You've continued making music since the Carter split. What part of this work are you most proud of?

 

I think I've done a few things since Carter that for me are as perfect as they could be, the Jim's Super Stereoworld mini album 'In A Big Flash Car On A Saturday Night', my latest 'Angelstrike!' album and my Carter book, which I'm probably as proud of as anything else I've ever done.

 

What can you tell us about your upcoming solo album, Angelstrike?

 

I was violently mugged a year or so ago and it changed my life. It also led to a lot of new songs that flowed out of me. I didn't have to force myself to come up with subject matter, so it's a more honest album. Like the first few Carter albums, before I started to have to think about writing songs when they weren't there naturally. I've made it a deliberately eclectic almost messy album. Slow songs, fast songs, acoustic and rock. And a 9 minute title track that would have even Queen or The Darkness tutting in disgust at my outrageous pomp.

 

You still tour regularly - how do audiences react to you these days?

 

I've done some wonderful gigs lately. A really great atmosphere with everyone singing along. I've had to play for ages, long long sets and it can be a bit like stand up comedy on occasion but I really enjoy the gigs.

 

Do you have any regrets?

 

I wish the last Carter record was better than it is. It's not a great or fitting way to end something so special. And I wish I'd used less commas in my Carter autobiography, apart from that no regrets.

 

If there's one piece of advice the Jim Bob of 2004 could give the Jim Bob of the early 90s, what would it be?

 

Get your haircut.

 

Lloyds at 8.15 for BM mate, your lack of attendence will obviously just confirm your a bottle job!

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