Stephen Morris

BEATS NEVER END

What music are you currently grooving to?

Currently, the Working Men’s Club LP, Marie Davidson’s Working Class Woman and quite a bit of Bob Dylan. I watched the Rolling Thunder doc on Netflix and found myself desperate to hear Blood On The Tracks. I hear his new one’s pretty good.

What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Probably Love’s Forever Changes. It really is an all-time five-star classic. You can always find some tiny detail that you’ve never noticed before.

What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? First 45 was The Loco-Motion by Little Eva from a record shop in Churchwallgate, Macclesfield. Album was, embarrassingly, Gather Me by Melanie. I’d gone to buy In Search Of Space by Hawkwind but didn’t have enough cash so I grabbed the one with Brand New Key. I didn’t play it much.

It was from Hodgsons in Chestergate.

Which musician, other than yourself, have you ever wanted to be? I’d love to be able to play drums as well as Jaki Liebezeit from Can. I’d like a go at Keith Moon cherry-bomb hotel wrecking. Sadly, I’m too polite.

What do you sing in the shower? My singing has been declared a crime under the Geneva Convention. I have lapsed into a pissed pub singer rendition of Life On Mars or Jean Jeanie.

What is your favourite Saturday night record?

Rebel Rebel by David Bowie always says Saturday night to me.

And your Sunday morning record? Something by Lee Hazlewood. Souls Island, probably, or Meaning? by Annette Peacock. They’re both reflective songs, which is usually how Sundays make me feel.

Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II (Constable) is out.