Even now there's still a bit of that Britpop thing hanging around. When you see bands like the Verve, that's just a tragedy. Expensive, but we got Virgin (Records) to cover that nice."Īs Hewitt's dance-influenced drumming is credited with Placebo's modem rock sounds, the conversation inevitably turns musical. Hewitt agreed to rejoin Placebo after some scrapping between Shultzberg and Molko, "I'd just signed a deal with Warners with another band so I had to get straight out of it to join Placebo. He was for two years - and the first record - replaced by Swede Robert Shultzberg.
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We're actually all healthy and loving it."Īlthough Hewitt was an original member of Placebo, when they made some demos together, his commitment to another band at the time meant he could not go full time with his buddies. You've been there before and you know all the pitfalls and the drinking and that. "We've been touring (mostly) for the last four years. Which is good because they won't see their homes until Christmas. Hewitt says the lads are fit, healthy, and they're not drinking (much). They've spent the last two months in the US, honing their live act for an eagerly (droolingly for some) awaited Powerstation show in Auckland on Friday night.Īfter that it's Australia, and back to the US. This week business brings Placebo our way. "You go through all your cliches, then say okay I've done that and start getting down to business." It was during a crescendo of Placebo's excesses that self-disgust set in, sparking some of the melancholy marvels that litter Without You I Am Nothing. "'Take three guys who are earning money and they're travelling the world, what are you gonna do? You're going to party, you know what I mean?" "It's absolutely necessary to get rid of all that (touring) shit," he explains. Hewitt says Placebo's first two years of touring, in '96 and '97 to promote their first record, Placebo, were 'partyville'. That's not to say the sun shines out of their 'boxes' to use Molko's favourite word on the new record. cocaine habits and it was like, I don't think so 'You try doing all that, then touring for six month and making a record when you come back. We had a great interview with them (Select) but they had us out of our head, prostitutes. But I find Hewitt sharp, polite, and a wee bit awkward about the press taking Placebo's candid interviews too far. I had to wonder, on a 5-minute hold to the Holiday Inn, downtown Salt Lake City - which incidentally has excellent gym and sauna facilities - what Hewitt, Placebo's deft timekeeper, will be like. His penchant for lipstick and evening wear not made for menfolk carries a likelihood of exacerbating the weird rep. It twists no knickers to say Placebo - the band compared with Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed have a reputation. You either thought "that's disgusting", or "on ya lads, y'all rock." It detailed orgies, obscene (apparently impossible) quantities of alcohol and uppers, and the use of sex like a similar commodity. Take Placebo's infamous Select magazine interview. It is an all-out, stand-alone fix of pure angst, laced with sex and drugs and plenty of tuneful rock 'n' roll.Īctually, not so much of the sex and drugs as many music readers are led to believe. But by the band's own admission, Without You I Am Nothing has come as a saviour for the closet depressive in all of us. Yeah, all right, it's their second album. Brian Molko, the American singer/guitarist, Stefan Oldsal, the Swedish bassist, Steve Hewitt, the pommie drummer. After two years of Girl Power and commercially doctored melodies. After two years of clean, happy, lyrically barren pop. 11s.It never felt so good to feel so bad. He was one of international cricket's genuine No.
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In 2001 he started television commentary, where his quiet thoughtful views were well received, and in 2005 he ended a brief foray into coaching by commiting full-time to his TV career.
He drifted in and out of the side, before disappearing from the international scene. But thereafter he struggled to maintain consistency, and his lack of pace meant that he was easy picking for international batsmen. A surprise choice for the Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan in 1996-97, he made his Test debut after the first choice bowlers were injured but made the most of his opportunity, taking the vital wickets of Ijaz Ahmed and Wasim Akram.
He spent a year at school in England, and in 1996 he went to Madras for coaching by Dennis Lillee on his return he was offered a place in the Plascon Academy in South Africa, which he attended from April to September 1996. A little short of the top pace, he was primarily a line-and-length bowler, using both seam and swing, with the away-swinger his stock ball.
Pommie Mbangwa's rise to prominence was all the more remarkable as he had no family background in cricket.
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