you guys may have already read this but it was new to me so..her it is



Dying for the Vines

Craig Nicholls doesn't expect Winona to call

GAVIN EDWARDS

Craig Nicholls' dad Terry had a band called the Vynes, who wore Beatles suits and never left Australia. Nicholls is the frontman for a band called the Vines, who relocated to L.A. and released an excellent Nirvana-meets-Radiohead album, Highly Evolved, one of the most promising rock albums of the summer. There's no record of Nicholls' father attacking his band mates, ending interviews by locking himself in the bathroom for three hours or gaining a reputation for panic attacks -- that's one more area in which the twenty-four-year-old Nicholls has outperformed Dad.

When was the last time you trashed a hotel room?

It was the first night we ever went on tour -- I smashed the lamp with a phone. I was being sarcastic. And today I broke the table when I was walking on it, but that was accidental. That bookends our career, so I think we're going to retire now.

When was the last time you got in a fight?

About twenty minutes ago, checking into the hotel. Somebody told me there was a McDonald's in the hotel and there wasn't, so I started shouting at him, and then I was shouting at some other people, and then I was rolling around on my back in the parking lot. Somebody said, "Sir, do you want to move?" I said, "If I wanted to move, I fucking would!" I needed to reflect on the pavement. Most people just let me do my thing. And then I started saying a lot of four-letter words at high volume, squealing like a high-pitched wicked witch. I've started doing that lately.

Does that get results?

Mostly it gets me funny looks. I'm going to take some mental therapy. I was going to get into meditation, but I want to do more than breathe. Animals breathe. I would never knock animals, but I want to make things, to totally occupy my mind. I want to watch TV and play guitar and ride my skateboard.

How do you get ready for a show?

I just change my clothes, write the songs down, project in my head to the near future. I sit around, waiting to go on, drinking Red Bull, smoking a cigarette.

Do you smoke anything else?

I smoke banana peels.

What's the best advice you ever got?

"Be excellent to each other" and "Party on, dudes." That's from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

What cartoon character would you want to have sex with?

Pamela Anderson. She is a cartoon, right?

What would you be doing now if you didn't have the band?

Trying to live with my parents. They'd probably have kicked me out, and I'd be on the street and I'd die.

What's the difference between the Vines and your dad's band, the Vynes?

My dad never smoked pot.

What's the difference between Australian pot and American pot?

It's all great, man. We don't smoke anything second-rate. We throw it back and say, "Don't you know who we are? We're an unknown band from Australia with a lot of hype!"

What role did fellow Australian Kylie Minogue play in your sexual awakening?

I would not want to even bother talking about her. I don't want to say anything bad about her: She's got a good voice, she's nice-looking, she wears futuristic clothes. But what's more important -- is it music or is it sex? I'm not trying to say we're all priests, but music is a sacred thing for me. We want our studio recordings to progress. I have fifty songs we could go record right now. Bands should get better. Everyone should be going forward. Songs have a beginning, a middle and an end. Well, when we're lazy, they don't have a middle.

Are girls hitting on you now?

I don't think so. I'm too dumb to recognize anything. I'm kind of dull and slow.

What's the celebrity-stalker quotient? Has Winona been in touch?

No, she hasn't. She's in prison, right? Someone asked me what was going to happen when Courtney Love wanted to talk to me. Ain't gonna happen. I'm really shy.

What drug will you never take again?

Adrenaline from a bull.

You once locked yourself in a bathroom for three hours. What were you doing in there?

It just gives you time to sit down, reflect, bang your head against the wall. Sometimes I like punching myself in the head -- everyone has the right to do what they want. [Pauses] I'm sorry, I would never punch myself in the head. I've run out of interesting things to say, and it's really important to me to further my career with crazy stories. I'm just an artist, even though we play rock music. Everything is positive, drugs are bad, stay in school.

What's next?

We're not coming out of the studio until we have three albums recorded. Our fourth album is where I think it's really going to get interesting. Being in the studio is like having a canvas at one end of the room and a paint gun at the other. You might get an incredible image, but it's definitely more rewarding than spending two years on a painting.

What would you want on your tombstone?

Craig Nicholls is a compulsive liar. I can't believe anybody took anything he said seriously. And there should be a statue of [Depeche Mode's] Dave Gahan without his shirt on, inscribed sleep in peace, my dark angel.

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I've never read the whole interview before. Thanks.

oh boy

Apparently he DID talk to Courtney Love tho. ...even tho he denied it later on. I guess she's that bad!
And i wonder if Winona Ryder knew Craig Nicholls of the Vines had a crush on her.

i think its funny. Courtneys fowl man.. ick

if i were him id deny i ever met courtney love as well....shes more psycho than craig is god he's such a total nut job but you cant help but love the guy





i dont know, but shes hot

actually, this interview was done a couple of years before courtney tracked craig down and met him on the set of 'ride,' so craig wasn't lying here.

but she obvs freaked him out good and proper when they did finally meet, because he hasn't wanted to be mentioned in the same sentence with her since!

I never said he was. I knew this was before Courtney. I just meant that after he met her, he denied it.

haha the pamlea anderson thing cracked me up!!!



poor craig .. i would deny knowing courtney love!! she's scary......and she actually wrote a song called mono.....

he must have been stoned out of his mind in that interveiw

she probably thought she'd try to head him off like Kurt

what do hockey players and Courtney Love have in common?

they don't show until after their 4th period

ooh. burn!

you know its true

Craig mentioned meeting Courtney in that MTV2 "Gonzo" interview

Actually, it's Zane who mentions it first (damn you Zane!)
I love that interview but whenever I get to that bit I'm like...

I can't stand that woman

out of curiosity is that youtubed?

my god thank you! mono is the most god awfull fucking song ever, ever since she left hole she sucks!







no i dont think its a video interview, but if it is i dont know about it...

I've never heard mono. I'm actually afraid to.
I dont know all of her stuff, but out of the songs i DO know, there is one song that i actually kinda liked. It's called "Violet"....yeah. I havent heard it in a long time, i wonder if i'd still like it if i heard it now.

cheese...?

Okay, here is "Violet"...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4vC3hbpk4


Eh!! Its still kinda cool. I dont LOVE it, but its still sorta cool. I like the way she sings certain parts, and some of the lyrics are cool. I like how its slow in some parts, then she screams her heart out.
Meh! Its the only Courtney Love (Hole) song i like.

Courtney Love

Does that mean you didnt like that song i posted? ..or does that mean you dont like "her"??

...no, no... just her

Oh.

Noone seems to like her. I wonder if she knows that?

yeah violet is a good song, her album with her band hole called "live through this" is actualy a very good album, but its becuase kurt cobain wrote most of the songs for it, her own stuff sucks bad

oh wow...I didn't know that he wrote her songs ! I like some of hole's music.

Really? I never knew. Wonder if he wrote "Violet"?? ....he must have wrote that one, cause it's not horrible.

yeah im pretty sure he did, all her good songs exept for "doll parts" were written by him or billy corgan..she has no talent she just gets cool talented rockstar boyfriends to write her songs for her...mabe thats why she wanted to meet craig so bad, she saw some fresh talent there ewww poor craig, he's way too smart and hot and talented for her..

lol yeah she can be gross, but adleast shes rock and roll. compared to these sqeaky clean pop rock girl boy/girl groups

yea, i guess i could stand by her on that

I've actually come to the conclusion that the main reason backing my hate for her is just jealousy. With the whole Kurt situation. Even though she obviously is somewhat a bitch too. Even though she can look trashy sometimes i still think she is very beautiful, and i hate when people deny that type of stuff

It's kind of weird that about that whole kurt writing her songs thing because i never heard any of her music until Vinechild posted that song. And i thought it was kind of nirvana-esque. Okay, almost too much. It is pretty cool but i think it sounds kinda dumb when she's screaming. I'm not sure if he wrote all of her songs though because for some reason, i just don't think kurt would do that. But i have a book in that "Talking" series and it's with Kurt and Courtney quotes.I remember some kind of question asking if he helped her with song writing and she was saying it was all in the type of fashion of her hearing Kurt working on the Heart Shaped Box riff, and asking him if he needed it, and him replying with a "Fuck you". Of course not as hostile as it sounds, but yeah. I really think she wrote songs sounding similar, rather than Kurt writing them for her. And about the Violet song, theres a quote in the book with her saying she wrote it while she was in a van during sound check or something, saying she was jealous of the songs she heard from nevermind and wanted to top them. I dunno, i have a few conflicting opinions.

Long live Kurt

that is true, she is who she is white trash and all, she hides nothing, literaly "nothing"

So true.

lol yeah, I remember when she was doing here solo tour and she did a show in seattle...and well lets just say everyone in the crowd saw her headlights

Headlights? Her boobs? Her crotch? What does that mean?

Sorry, I'm a little sheltered.

uck...courtney love flashing people is ....



her and little kim get along really great I imagine

That made me laugh like an idiot.

Lil Kim and Courtney Love .

Oh God, stop the madness.

imagine what a couple they would make sorry

they are so much a like .....

i was just thinking about that.....






i just got done eating.....

I am eating. Well, not anymore.

yeah it kind of ruins the desire to eat...

Yeah, tiny bit

I recently got this Courtney Love's pic on my e-mail.

courtney love is washed out and on herione