Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
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“I really admire any game that can go on for five days and not produce a winner”
EOIN BUTLER talks to Neil Hannon about cricket, Britpop and “Father Ted”.
What are you listening to these days?
I listen to far too much music that is not considered cool. I’m a lifelong fan of Cole Porter and Noel Coward. I also love Maurice Ravel. As far as pop music is concerned, it tends to be strangely commercial stuff. I’ll find I’m just mad about a Sugababes song or something. The new Jarvis Cocker album is brilliant too, much better than his first album. I was always a massive Pulp fan.
Do I recall that you and Jarvis once had an argument about an anorak?
That has a basis in truth. Jarvis and I once did a joint cover shoot for a French magazine. I turned up wearing an anorak, basically, because I had no clue. It got back to me afterwards that Jarvis had been outraged. The phrase he used was “You’ve got to live it” [referring to being a pop star, presumably]. Afterwards, I thought “Hmm . . . He was probably right.” But we never had a face-to-face argument. Read the rest of this article here.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Cool article… btw did you ever do that Ardal O’Hanlon interview you were talking about a couple of weeks ago?
July 1st, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Just did it this morning Jenny. Met him in the Westbury hotel – he was relaxed, easygoing, no PRs hovering or anything like that. Exactly as you’d expect, pretty much.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Haha… for some reason I read that as “hoovering”!
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 am
Yes Massey, those PR people have to make ends meet any way they can!