Then, of course, there’s always the awful prescience that always seems to reveal itself when you go picking through the words of the dead. “I just think too much sometimes,” he mentions towards the end. Some, on the other hand, especially when you take into account the long pauses between words, is the sounds of a man at the start of his career trying desperately hard to portray himself as deep. Some of what follows is weirdly profound, way outside the usual parameters of rock interviews. Listening to the tape again, with a clutch of late (and often less candid) features to one side, I think he meant most of what he said. That didn’t last long.Īt this early stage, Buckley had rarely been interviewed and it was hard to judge whether he was either ineffably pretentious or a very seductive wind-up merchant. He was ridiculous and funny and charming and blessed with the presence of a superstar, even though back then he was virtually unknown beyond music business insiders and the regulars at a string of New York folk venues. It was a bitterly cold, blustery day, but it didn’t stop Buckley striding down the main street of Hoboken, New Jersey (where he was to play a remarkable solo gig later that night), bawling an operatic version of Beck’s ‘Loser’ at bemused passers-by.Over the course of an evening, that seemed typically eccentric behaviour. Jeff Buckley was first interviewed by NME in February 1994, just before his first EP, “Live at Sin-E”, was released in Britain. Totally forgot about the Pop Will Eat Itself reference…
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Originally, my interview appeared in early 1994 as a 400-word New Artist piece, before Buckley had played in the UK, though the version below is the full version that I ran in NME in May 1998. David Cavanagh’s dug deep into the creation of that EP and “Grace”, talked with many of the people closest to Buckley, and come up with a revelatory piece, I think.Īfter chatting with David about his feature, I went into the NME archives and fished out Buckley’s first meeting with the UK press. The cover story, meanwhile, focuses on Jeff Buckley, as the 20th anniversary of “Live At Sin-é” approaches and the new “Greetings From Tim Buckley” biopic appears in the UK on pay-per-view. Lots of interesting stuff in there, including new interviews with The National, Laura Marling, Deborah Harry and Todd Rundgren The Eagles, The Waterboys, Deep Purple, Mark Mulcahy, Kurt Vile reviews of Fleetwood Mac, Vampire Weekend, REM, Van Dyke Parks and Jandek respects paid to Jason Molina, Andy Johns and Phil Ramone and a brief exchange with the now notorious Michelle Shocked. The new issue of Uncut arrives in UK shops on Thursday, though perhaps a few subscribers, with a prevailing wind, might have already received their copies.
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