BLUETONES: Mark Morriss on Oasis, Dodgy & Neil Kinnock's Bathtub!

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  • Опубликовано: 20 апр 2024
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Комментарии • 81

  • @matthewdrake9699
    @matthewdrake9699 Месяц назад +30

    Adam Devlin is probably the most underrated guitarist of all time

    • @wooley6914
      @wooley6914 Месяц назад

      I've always said the same, he is awesome.

  • @tc-ou2zb
    @tc-ou2zb Месяц назад +5

    The Bluetones were always the thinking man's Brtipop band. I saw them at a very small gig and they were superb. One of the best Britpop bands lyrically, for sure. Expecting To Fly was a fabulous album, one of my favourite from that era.

  • @RichRobinson
    @RichRobinson Месяц назад +7

    Mark is a lovely guy. He’s a wicked performer too. Respect.

  • @gazwood08
    @gazwood08 Месяц назад +4

    I've met Mark a few times by being lucky enough to have him play in my venues in Barrow-in-Furness over the years. He's an absolute Gent and amazing musician/songwriter. Theres a story I tell people about Marks Rider. We went through a phase of getting these ridiculous riders off bands, and Im talking Mars ice cream bars and obscure flavours of hummus! The riders were like a weeks shopping for some bands. So when Mark played and we got his rider, all it was, was a bottle of red wine and a pack of silk cut. Absolute legend and shows how down to earth he is :)

  • @nikprior8280
    @nikprior8280 Месяц назад +6

    Huge Bluetones fan, met Mark a few times - great bloke, fantastic live band

  • @316_Bubbles
    @316_Bubbles Месяц назад +5

    Absolutely LOVE The Bluetones! I'm a young lad and people are always surprised when I tell them I'm a fan of them. If you could ever interview any members of Cast that would make you the best youtuber ever

  • @spraymie
    @spraymie Месяц назад +11

    Mark is bang on with Jools having worked there. Bang on the money.

  • @stevethompson3153
    @stevethompson3153 Месяц назад +1

    That was great, I love mark, what a great bunch of lads the bluetones are

  • @zombiemosher1139
    @zombiemosher1139 Месяц назад +1

    I liked them back then but never listened to much of their stuff. Saw them with Sleeper on the co headlining tour they did a couple of years back now I'm a fan. Great interview

  • @janehicks2266
    @janehicks2266 Месяц назад +2

    Really loved The Bluetones back in the day, great to see all these bands back out touring again!!

  • @thapthoptheep2076
    @thapthoptheep2076 Месяц назад +6

    This was great, loved the bluetones back in the day, last chance saloon is still one of my favourite albums - sleazy bed track, U.T.A and if are honestly under-rated gems...amazing band.
    Why didn't you ask Mark about that dance in the video for slight return?
    We're all thinking about it, I am...still - decades later.
    Wicked, James - we need more stuff like this, absolute gold.

  • @smitcher
    @smitcher Месяц назад +1

    Thanks James and Mark, that was great. Always been a big Bluetones fan and it's good that they are recording again and touring and are all still on good terms... Mark calling out Jules Holland was great - have always thought that old Julio was a bit overrated... Adam is an absolutely brilliant, very underrated, guitarist too...
    You are definitely becoming the RUclipsr that all the stars want interviewed by!

  • @HurrikaneWales24
    @HurrikaneWales24 Месяц назад +2

    Loved the Bluetones and mark's solo stuff. Great interview. Thanks both!

  • @JRA73
    @JRA73 Месяц назад +2

    My mate put me on to The Bluetones on one of his Army leaves, seen them at gigs numerous times and still to this day listen to those glorious tunes. When music was brilliant and cool.........✌

  • @TheRightEarOfNash
    @TheRightEarOfNash Месяц назад +7

    'Expecting To Fly' was the first album I ever bought. On first listen I didn't really know what to make of it (being only 15 at the time) but after a while it really grew on me and it remains one of my favourite albums. 'Science & Nature is also great.

    • @hamiltonmews
      @hamiltonmews Месяц назад +1

      Absolutely the same. I was around the same age. I bought it based on "Slight Return", but all the other tunes like Bluetonic, Can't Be Trusted, Cut Some Rug, The Fountainhead really grew on me. Seeing them in October.

    • @philcairnduff7595
      @philcairnduff7595 Месяц назад +3

      My personal favourite is Return To The Last Chance Saloon 👌 IF is just an absolutely amazing song

    • @tangfastic7075
      @tangfastic7075 Месяц назад +2

      Expecting to Fly was my first CD I bought in 1996. My favourite Bluetones album is Science and Nature, though. I created a monster as I got an ex-girlfriend into Bluetones and she's obsessed with Mark.

  • @mrpleasent6038
    @mrpleasent6038 Месяц назад +2

    I started uni with a copy of expecting to fly in my suitcase - them and supergrass defined my youth - happy times

  • @folginator
    @folginator Месяц назад +3

    Great video and so glad there’s new material on the way!!

  • @AlanMcGonigle-ho1tz
    @AlanMcGonigle-ho1tz Месяц назад +5

    James you are the fucking man . Kings of the 90s. am getting some weed for this.🤘

  • @IamRobotMonkey
    @IamRobotMonkey Месяц назад +5

    I wish I'd known about this sooner, a friend supported him on tour a few years back in a tiny venue in Cambridge. Got my vinyl signed and squeeed all over the poor sod. I think I even got an awkward hug off him too. Legend. Great albums, great chaps. Far more talented than people realise. Constantly experimenting and making new sounds. I think I'm right in thinking they can all play each others instruments too.

    • @andyfovargue365
      @andyfovargue365 Месяц назад +2

      The Portland Arms? I was at that one. Great interview, James!

    • @IamRobotMonkey
      @IamRobotMonkey Месяц назад +1

      @@andyfovargue365 Wooo!! Hi-five to one of the four people in the audience who weren't, probably still aren't, me!!

  • @THEJAM-EATERS
    @THEJAM-EATERS Месяц назад +1

    Great interview. Really enjoyed this 👍🏻

  • @1292liam
    @1292liam Месяц назад

    Used to absolutely LOVE 'Expecting to Fly', amazing LP

  • @rumtumbugger
    @rumtumbugger Месяц назад +1

    Mark seems a real down to Earth guy - been right at the top, has no ego whatsoever. Great interview!

  • @gothgurlfriend
    @gothgurlfriend Месяц назад +2

    Respect to Mark having a Russ Meyer poster in the background!

  • @psmart4948
    @psmart4948 Месяц назад +1

    Already got my solfest tickets, shall see you there, love from West Cumbria 👌💪👍

  • @nickjones2850
    @nickjones2850 Месяц назад +1

    The only time I've ever made it to the very front at a festival gig was the Bluetones at Reading in 2000, because after Limp Bizkit finished their set the whole crowd circulated like nothing I've ever seen. They were fantastic. I think I remember Mark being carried off stage 'Officer and a Gentlemen' style. Love the Bluetones!

  • @silversuit66
    @silversuit66 Месяц назад

    Great interview thanks James

  • @wooley6914
    @wooley6914 Месяц назад

    Really enjoyed this interview James, I remember being shocked to find out they weren't a Northern band too.

  • @jezwotton2126
    @jezwotton2126 Месяц назад +1

    Saw Mark and Chris Helme perform for £15 in putney recently - both excellent and engaging

  • @kjd9634
    @kjd9634 Месяц назад +3

    Love the bluetones, named my daughter Clarry after the 1st track on etf! Seen em live plenty od times. I don't think they sound northern at all. Met Mark when he was DJ ing years ago showed him a pic of my daughter, he was very polite and I was very pissed, met the rest of the band at a gig, Eds left a message on my answer machine for the Mrs, great bloke. Edgar Wright or Simon Pegg's party??

  • @RussellHarland
    @RussellHarland Месяц назад +2

    The Bluetones went off the radar well before their time. Their latter-day albums are brilliant. Have a listen to 'A New Athens'. Marks solo albums are well worth exploring too. Mark's solo work is really just as good ...I can recommend all of them, His latest being 'Look Up'. Needless to say, I have been a fan of there's for a long, long time! Blue army!

  • @user-tf8hy7xz7e
    @user-tf8hy7xz7e Месяц назад

    Can't wait for new material 🎼

  • @Panos12355
    @Panos12355 Месяц назад

    Great interview. A friend and i supported Mark at a gig years ago. He was friendly, funny and very charismatic. He is the kind of guy that is impossible not to like. Outside of the first three Bluetones albums my favourite would be his solo album "A Flash of Darkness". Incredible record! In response to some of the less than kind comments, i would say that nobody will leave this earth with an unblemished record. Its how we respond and move forward that matters. The real villains are the wealthy superstars of the industry. They clearly demonstrated over the last few years that when push came to shove, they didn't really care about what happens to their fans.

  • @themarinman8339
    @themarinman8339 Месяц назад +2

    The bluetones!!!!!! Yes!!!

  • @t3br00k35
    @t3br00k35 Месяц назад +3

    Is he a geography teacher now?

  • @backandfour
    @backandfour Месяц назад

    I was studying in Bradford around 98-99 and the bluestones played there one night. I couldn't get tickets but met a girl with a bluestones t-shirt at the Uni Bar. Said I loved her tshirt and she wrote her number on my hand. The morning after I didn't remember much but while I was having a morning shower I saw the writing had almost disappeared ... That's how I never got to see The Bluestones live nor met that girl again...😅

  • @youngandrew66
    @youngandrew66 Месяц назад +2

    I like this man. Obviously they were musically light years ahead of their contemporaries with sophisticated and subtle chord progressions (major 3rd noel?😅) and he has an attitude. I mean, just dont bother if you haven't right?)

  • @zolfodor4835
    @zolfodor4835 Месяц назад

    Brilliant band,some classic tunes,seen em in newcastle back in the day,what a great guitarist Adam Devlin is,love this band.

  • @jmccabe82
    @jmccabe82 Месяц назад +1

    My favourite britpop band

  • @youngandrew66
    @youngandrew66 Месяц назад +2

    Mark you're not weird/ world/ crap enough to be regulars on later ( the only programme you can skip from start to finish sometimes without stopping to watch anything😅)

  • @jasonbennett4467
    @jasonbennett4467 Месяц назад +1

    Great band....watch them many times.....ps I wasn't 13 when they hit the scene 🤣😆

  • @neilaspin008
    @neilaspin008 24 дня назад

    Nae Hair On't is the best song they ever did!

  • @russellnewton6660
    @russellnewton6660 Месяц назад

    I don’t care what he says, I’ve loved watching Jules Holland over the years. I also love the blue tones

  • @waynefraser6808
    @waynefraser6808 Месяц назад +2

    Remember my x buying me there cd she said they look like mods lol but we are still scooter mad 🥊

  • @bernicia-sc2iw
    @bernicia-sc2iw 10 дней назад

    They meant a lot to me in 95-96 . I saw the group three times live in that period , the first time being when they supported Supergrass , then the Bluetonic tour , then the Expecting to Fly tour . They were always good live , but I always felt their records were a bit overproduced. That said , Slight Return was a great single , and the first album was good and by far the best thing they ever did . But the music scene moved fast back then , and by the time of the follow up (Last Chance Saloon) I had largely moved on and soon completely forgot about them and what a huge fan I had been in 95-96 . It happens. But the nice memories remain nonetheless.

  • @sotv2045
    @sotv2045 27 дней назад

    20:45 Wasn't Jake Bugg "manufactured"?

  • @mur5h182
    @mur5h182 Месяц назад

    Brillian. A bit of pop trivia on PR machines. On Blert Williams angels bootleg beatles, george plays some guitar. He was top session guy apparently. 🤡 are backed to astounding levels to attain credibility

  • @cinemar
    @cinemar Месяц назад

    I'm happy to hear they have been working on new material but fifteen years is far too long between albums, especially when there was never a split.

  • @estebancomulet
    @estebancomulet Месяц назад

    I think the mutual friend who's party he was at with noel G might have been Steve Coogan.

    • @kjd9634
      @kjd9634 Месяц назад +1

      I think it would be Edgar Wright, as they have been friends for years, he's used their Music in his films/series and they appeared in Spaced which is why I think it could also be Simon Pegg, who I saw at a Tones gig decades ago.

    • @estebancomulet
      @estebancomulet Месяц назад +1

      @@kjd9634 Yeah fair enough, I only said Coogan as I knew they both lived together before either were famous

    • @kjd9634
      @kjd9634 Месяц назад

      @@estebancomulet You could be right mate I'm only guessing.

    • @estebancomulet
      @estebancomulet Месяц назад +1

      @@kjd9634 same here dude lol

  • @ChubbyChecker182
    @ChubbyChecker182 Месяц назад +3

    Warning, This interview is a bit Sluggish.

    • @kommissar.murphy
      @kommissar.murphy Месяц назад +1

      What do you mean?
      It's top notch chat throughout!

  • @jimmima121
    @jimmima121 Месяц назад +3

    "Jools Holland is something of a hero of mine."
    "Right, here's why he's shit."
    😂

  • @edwardmulholland7912
    @edwardmulholland7912 Месяц назад +13

    I used to like The Bluetones, I loved their 1st album and saw them a couple of times. However, I went off him when I heard how he has allegedly treated the women in his life. It’s been documented.

    • @chrisbailiss7309
      @chrisbailiss7309 Месяц назад +8

      Yes, feel the same. I try to separate the music and happy memories of past gigs from his personal life but I can't completely. I don't like writing people off forever but I feel for the women involved (and glad they found a voice)... so for now I don't think I'd enjoy seeing the Bluetones at a gig. I guess everyone has to make their own judgement... no perfect answer.

    • @edwardmulholland7912
      @edwardmulholland7912 Месяц назад +5

      @@chrisbailiss7309There is always at least two sides to every story and Morriss has his side as well. This has affected him in more ways than one. I don’t feel any hate towards the guy - he’s ex-wife (who was/is a journalist) went for the jugular and has definitely damaged his career. Does he deserve that? Who knows what goes on behind closed doors in any relationship.

    • @chrisbailiss7309
      @chrisbailiss7309 Месяц назад +5

      @@edwardmulholland7912 Yep - agree with all that, don't feel any hate for him either. Messy and damaging (in different ways) for everyone involved. Hope everyone can move on for the better...

    • @hamiltonmews
      @hamiltonmews Месяц назад +3

      Yes, I felt that way too. However, I also read
      his statement and he seemed to own a lot of the mistakes. It's clear his relationship got toxic, much by his own doing. Happens with a lot of people in the music business sadly.

    • @JuliusHowe
      @JuliusHowe Месяц назад +1

      What did he do?

  • @jakebairstow2827
    @jakebairstow2827 Месяц назад

    Not sure if you’ll see this l, I’ve got an original song on my RUclips, it’s called Rock’N’Roll, see what you think to it

  • @philgez
    @philgez Месяц назад +3

    Doesn’t really have much nice to say about people does he really.

    • @me_fault
      @me_fault Месяц назад +3

      he was okay about Liam

    • @hamiltonmews
      @hamiltonmews Месяц назад +1

      🤣This probably isn't the place for Harry Styles or Robbie Williams fans.

  • @B1gstar14
    @B1gstar14 Месяц назад

    I always think Mark Morriss’ lyrics are quite pessimistic and almost upsetting. I believe his childhood was quite unpleasant

  • @captainfeedback1
    @captainfeedback1 Месяц назад

    17:53 the 'British Indie Scene'... boring music for boring people.

  • @ChrisWalton-qo8ul
    @ChrisWalton-qo8ul Месяц назад

    Quite probably one of the worst bands I've ever come across along with starsailor...

  • @pjl8119
    @pjl8119 Месяц назад +2

    Love your channel James but not for me. I can't tell you how much I hated the music of The Bluetones. That whiny voice. 🤬. Makes me angry just thinking of it.