XYZ: Full name:
Ste: Ste McGregor
XYZ: Profession?
Ste I sometimes make music to try and make people happy and I sometimes make animation to make ad agencies and record labels and hopefully, people happy too. Sometimes it works.
XYZ: Label?
Ste Skint Records
XYZ: Sum up your style in a sentence?
Ste I can do it in a word…vast.
XYZ: How long have you been in Brighton?
Ste 9 years
XYZ: Hometown?
Ste Middlesbrough
XYZ: Best thing about being Kidda?
Ste Well, life’s just one big “Hi-5!” right now.
XYZ: Worst thing?
Ste Sore palms.
XYZ: Where do you wanna be in 5 years?
Ste Flying to Rio with my gold monkey in a Crystal fuelled Space Shuttle whilst booking a vocal session with Candi Staton on my holographic Iphone. Having said that, being able to afford a pension scheme would be nice.
XYZ: What pisses you off most?
Ste We live in a culture of spineless show-offs. Not many are prepared to stand up and be counted. There’s plenty of agitators, cynics and critics around but they all lack any real sense of truth. Talkin loud and sayin nothing. There are a few notables, but in my opinion Mr Doherty finds it hard to even stand up to be counted and while Kanye West comes close (with the ‘George Bush doesn’t like black people’ statement), he comes across confused thanks to that good-but-daft ‘Gold Digger’ record and ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ (getting re-written when someone enlightened him to the huge humanitarian injustices caused by the international diamond trade in Africa). With false messiahs like ‘that Bongo guy’ from U2 smooching their way round world leaders like an uninvited guest at a funeral to little or no avail (well, they do sell more records, so I guess that’s worth it for him), nothing’s changing fast. It all stems from a general apathy brought on by a dissolved, misled society. Battered by our fucking idiot governments in the last 30 years, we have learned to shut up and be happy with our trinkets and booze. Our only concerns are the cut of our pastel American Apparel hoodies, hair gel and celebrity addicts. ‘Fuck the bloke next door, as long as it doesn’t happen to me’. We could do with a few more true heroes round here I reckon. Go on, give us summat to believe in. See how pissed of I am about that? Rant over.
XYZ: What’s your favourite possession?
Ste As much as I’d like to think I don’t covet material stuff (have you seen the state of me recently?), I fucking love my Video Ipod. It’s like magic, see. I never made the time to sit and listen to music and watch films (I’d ‘hear’ a lot of music but never be able to LISTEN, knaaamean?) but mooching through town with it on has afforded me this precious time. Also being an occasional insomniac, I can watch movies all night in bed and, yes it does work as the screen size is as relative to watching a telly from across the room. For the record…my ipod was recycled from a bunch of broken machines destined for the bin. It’s like Frankenstein’s monster but a bit better looking and sounding.
XYZ: Got any secrets?
Ste No flies on me but I’ve got some corkers about some other folks. I’ll fill you in if you get me drunk.
XYZ: It’s a date! Talk to you after!!
XYZ: If you could have any car what would it be?
Ste I used to have a C reg Cherry red Nissan Micra and that was ‘The Ride’ back ’98. If I really needed a car, I’d have that one back tomorrow. I’d rather get a new pair of Nike Air Max 90 Classic (size UK 13/ US 14). Cheers.
XYZ : New years resolutions?
Ste There’s a lot of stuff I can turn my hand to, but have yet to work out how to reverse time or raise the dead. I plan to get to work on both of these projects by late January 2008. Oh, and the Kidda sandwich shop thing. I tend not to try and give anything up at New Year as all my vices serve me well.
XYZ: Anything you want to plug XYZ readers?
Ste I could plug my forthcoming record to death, but you’ll find out about that sure enough. It’s far too good and I’m far too determined for you not to hear about it. So I’m going to plug a ‘vibe’…Like my man E.T. said… “Be Good”
Words by Jo C
