Miscellaneous Articles #3
GENE LOVES JEZEBEL Interview, 1/87
"They're 17-year-olds who hate Duran Duran and are looking for an alternative group to be obsessive about," GENE LOVES JEZEBEL's lead singer, Michael Aston blithely observes of the group's growing legion of fans. Michael and his unmatching twin brother, J., the group's lead guitarist, share a marked penchant for necklaces, makeup and long, flowing robes. Could this be glam rock? "We're just…colorful." Indeed. The Welsh pair's music defies easy categorization. On DISCOVER, their new album (Geffen), GLJ creates anthems at once peppy and affecting, swathed in arabesques of chiming guitars. Michael's voice teeter-totters between youth and manhood, with just enough delicate despair to lure the unsuspecting. So frenzied was one young lady during the band's recent American tour that she burst into their room, flung herself into J.'s bed and held on for dear life. "We're not rich enough yet to properly protect ourselves," sighs Michael, shaking an errant blond lock from his eyes.*******
NME, 1/30/82
Jean Loves Jezebel
The Venue
Jean Loves Jezebel! What a wonderfully whacky name! I can almost hear the
fat rejuvenescent businessman at the little plastic table next to me leaning
over next Monday's conference table and leering "I went to see a brand
new group called Jean Loves Jezebel last week!" If he had deigned to LISTEN
to Jean Loves Jezebel instead of hungrily devouring this week's NME, he
may have found out that they were about as avant-garde as Steve Strange
in flares and loafers circa '75. Imagine four or five members of Killing
Joke discovering an unorthodox way of neutering a cat and you'll get the
idea.
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