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ly a job that males do i always got resistance especially from engineers but i would fire engineers if they didn t give me what i wanted and if it was an artist giving me a hard time i would pass on them too i took no chances when it came to my reputation i remember an engineer telling me how nervous he was about me because he heard i was tuff on them i said just give me what i want and i m an angel the part that bothers me is when a male producer says what he wants he is called a genius when i say what i want i m hard to work with what is your favorite album that you have ever done urban desire for sure basically this was the first time i was able to produce myself and it was the most recognition any of my albums ever had it was the most picked album for two weeks in the trades me and springsteen s record my record company decided to close shop as i was climbing up the charts ever since then i have produced myself i have had enough experience by then to do that when i produce myself i have to step away from me and ego ah you think that s easy i have let certain vocals go on records that i was not all that thrilled with but they worked some sort of magic you have to be pretty experienced to do that it s not easy standing away from yourself also those days i always worked with engineers today i engineer myself with the magic of pro tools on my computer but and this is a big but there are pros and cons here for not being in a studio but rather working out of your own house i like working with some tension so i give myself deadlines too you re never alone with a schizophrenic haha what are your favorite bands to dj on your radio shows ah so many new ones are a group from europe fake elegance is one of them and for my chicks and broads show i still play the hell out of my older women baby washington darlene love a new group called spanking charlene the sweet inspirations sissy houston is in that last group mother of whitney houston the ting tings tegan and sara what inspired your latest album undercover well i work best under pressure so when i was signed to labels they would say we need to have that record finished by such and such that s when i would do my best writing today there is no pressure there are no labels such a sad time i m so glad i came on the scene when i did those were the best music years just look at what we had then but back to the question i came up with my undercover cd by thinking about some songs i always wanted to sing and decided to do my versions of them i like doing that it s sort of old school like jamming on stage with players you never played with before and letting magic happen glitter in the gutter an interview with nina antonia may 9 2012 6 41 am posted in uncategorized tagged 70s glam rock 70s punk rock brett smiley david bowie female rock journalists johnny thunders new york dolls nina antonia the only ones the skuzzies leave a comment i interviewed nina antonia for venus zine back in 2007 her writing has been a huge influence on me she has been a music journalist in britain since the 80s and wrote an amazing book called the prettiest star in the mid 00s it is about her experience growing up in britain during the 70s as a fan of glam and punk music which i could really relate to and she weaves her tale with the story of brett smiley who is an underrated glam rocker that was destined to be the next david bowie but whose career did not turn out as expected it is quite a gripping story i interviewed her not too long after that book came out and got to talk to her about the book as well as other people that she has written about such as the new york dolls johnny thunders she wrote two books that have to do with thunders one about the new york dolls and one about about his career and peter perrett from the only ones nina antonia glitter in the gutter a legendary music journalist talks about the impact of glam rock on her life and the not so glamorous aspects of her writing career by bess korey nina antonia with brett smiley in her recent book the prettiest star whatever happened to brett smiley legendary british music journalist nina antonia parallels her personal memoir with the biography of musician brett smiley smiley s all too brief shot at fame as a glam rocker in the mid 70s and subsequent fall into despair and addiction when things did not work out as planned is brilliantly interwoven with antonia s tale of being a young music fan growing up in liverpool england antonia s life was changed forever by the burgeoning glam rock movement and the musicians with whom she was able to identify with from that scene including the new york dolls their guitarist johnny thunders and of course smiley the book spans a 30 year period chronicling the ups and downs of life faced by smiley and antonia and ending on a high note when their lives intersected in the early 2000 s during that time they finally met in person and antonia played an important part in getting smiley s lost 1974 glam rock album breathlessly brett released on rpm records her early interest in the dolls and thunders led to her being the first person to ever write biographies about both subjects the new york dolls too much too soon and johnny thunders in cold blood she is known as an authority on the dolls because of that and appears in a recent documentary new york doll about the dolls late bass player arthur killer kane she has also written the one and only peter perrett homme fatale on a founding member of the pioneering british punk group the only ones and she has had articles published in renowned british music magazines such as mojo and uncut antonia has certainly come a long way from being an unhappy little girl who used her daydreams of the dolls thunders and smiley as an escape in the following interview which was conducted via e mail during march of 2007 she candidly discusses her journey bess korey in the prettiest star you mentioned that when you were trying to find a publisher for your first book johnny thunders in cold blood one of the publishers you showed the book to had the gall to tell you that women shouldn t and can t write about music the lengthy resume that you have created as a music writer since then has certainly proved him wrong was that the only time that you have had to deal with sexist behavior in the publishing world or have there been other instances over the years as well also do you think that people have become more accepting of female music journalists since the 80s or does it seem to you like women who write about music are still made to feel like they have something to prove nina antonia throughout my time as a rock n roll writer i ve often had to deal with sexism so the first incident which you mention from the prettiest star was kind of a precursor it s not quite as bad now as it was in the 70s but i ve watched as male contemporaries in the same field have been offered the opportunity to make a decent career while i ve had to scratch out a living in the music press there is still the sense that the male voice in print at least is the most authoritative in the uk there are usually one to two women writing for each rock magazine if they re lucky this is the quota filled i have to admit however that i m also not one of the boys i don t hang out at the pub with the guys from whatever rock mag and this also goes against the grain as do the bands i m usually associated with the most infuriating incident i encountered was from an american writer a woman which made it all the more galling who was writing a book about women in rock n roll and contacted me about two years ago with a query about 70s groupie glamour queen sabel starr i was as helpful as possible and let her know that i did the last interview with sabel in my new york dolls book ironically when the book came out the journalist sourced a male author who hadn t actually spoken to sabel and totally ignored the dolls book i got a teensy thanks which was lost in the footnotes i can t say whether people have become more accepting of female music journalists because i can only answer from my own experiences on a more positive note however i do get lovely feedback about my books from lots of guys so the fault if there is one lies within the media s attitude not with the rock reader from what can be gathered in reading about your life in the prettiest star you ve never been reckless or self destructive like the musicians that you choose to write about why do you think that you have such a strong desire to write about the dark side of rock n roll and does writing about such things help you stay grounded i suppose you could say i was emotionally reckless and self destructive in some of the relationships i embarked upon but as a single parent i had to learn to survive as well i probably have a strong desire to write about the dark side of rock n roll because it reflects something in me an echo of my childhood which fashioned my outlook on life also traditional success stories are pretty boring i d rather write about the authentic people who have had to struggle yet triumphed by getting their records out against the odds people whose lives are real i hate high gloss air brushed perfection and mtv homogenization authors like nelson algren john rechy and jean genet influenced me because they understood the poetry of the gutter i am grounded because i ve had to be to pay the rent how would you describe brett smiley and the effect he has had on your life to people who have not read your book the prettiest star which is both brett s biography and my autobiography is amongst other things a reflection on the ephemeral quality of pop music as a glam phenomenon brett was as fleeting as a snowflake which gave him and the music a magical quality he was the greta garbo of teeny pop elusiveness can be a great quality the imaginary brett character belongs to my early teens brett smiley of today is a very different person much more earthy as is his music i perceive him like a figure in a fairy story someone remembered from another lifetime whilst wishing the real brett all the very best with his future endeavors besides he is very much concerned with the now as well what inspired you to write a book about peter perrett of the only ones peter is like a modern day baudelaire if you don t know baudelaire s work it s incredibly contemporary in its jaded cynicism yet it has a timeless morbid beauty to it perrett and baudelaire also share the same predilections for dissipation as well perrett is one of the most anti establishment people i ve ever met he refuses to live within society s rules peter is a truly mythical figure i once described him in an article as being the syd barrett of the new wave there is a lot of mystique surrounding perrett that continues to exert a fascination over people the only ones music is kind of baroque grandiose almost it s the sound of opium dreams and car crashes refinement and chaos the only ones have just reformed and are going to be playing gigs this summer in england so i may update the book even though you re a female writer you ve chosen to chronicle the lives of male musicians as opposed to female ones does gender play a role at all when you choose the topics you want to write about the two female artists i would have most wanted to write about were debbie harry and nico i think they are both wonderful and indeed i ve done sleeve notes for a nico cd however i always write about artists who have largely been under the radar in terms of media coverage when i wrote about the new york dolls they hadn t yet reformed and hit the comeback trail but that s a bit of a tangent what i m trying to say is that i didn t think there was a need for me to write about debbie harry or nico as there were perfectly good books already out about both of them it s not an issue of gender either it s always been about whose work and style moves me which book do you like best out of the four you ve written and is that the one you enjoyed writing most johnny thunders in cold blood is the one that means the most to me because it was my first book and entailed a lot of struggle i put my soul into it and got to work closely with johnny who was my rock n roll hero it s also the book that i get the most feedback on johnny captured a lot of people s hearts and in cold blood is an authentic document it originally came out in 1987 first editions can cost quite a lot if you can find a copy i only have one left it was revised and updated a couple of years ago and it s the new version available through cherry red books that is still in print nina antonia with crooked j are you working on any new books or projects right now i had a difficult experience with the last book i tried to get off the ground which was going to be an alternative look at glam at this stage of the game i m too weary to fight for what should be obvious i e a decent advance and a reasonable timeframe for writing a book right now i m concentrating on managing a band called the skuzzies their front man crooked j is my partner if i m going to write about any band at all it will be the skuzzies they have the grimy allure of the city after midnight and incorporate everything i ve ever found inspiring in music and literature whilst being totally themselves when you were younger could you have ever imagined that your life would turn out this way does the fact that you have been so involved with the lives of your heroes seem surreal to you at all or does it just feel normal now in my early teens i spent most of my life in daydreams as this was preferable to real life my dream was to meet johnny thunders i suppose my dreams came true but of course things never turned out in the way one anticipates life is bittersweet as were my experiences of getting to know johnny and writing his biography his life was far from perfect as was mine but it was still the realization of something very special and finding creative fulfillment is rewarding writing too much too soon was a completely different experience it was more of an elegy to the original new york dolls a fond goodbye to answer your question i don t think i could have lived my life any other way my books gave me a voice that would otherwise have gone unheard an interview with the legendary cherry vanilla february 25 2011 6 13 am posted in uncategorized tagged 70s glam rock andy warhol cherry vanilla david bowie female punk rockers mad men leave a comment this is the uncut version of an interview that appeared on venus zine s website during december 2010 and features additional questions cherry vanilla answered that did not appear in the venus zine interview interview cherry vanilla the 60s and 70s music scene legend talks about what inspired her to write her new book lick me raves about the realism of mad men and shares some recollections of her times with andy warhol and david bowie by bess korey cherry vanilla s autobiography lick 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