7/2/2023 0 Comments Neil blender coffee break deckIce and the Iced being the most obscure example I guess, but stuff like the House of Love and Siouxsie isn’t what people normally expect from a skate video. You’ve always been good at getting the music you listen to out there, either by DJing or in video parts. When you see the heads bobbing, it makes you feel good and you want to keep it going. When you see people enjoying the music, and you have the interaction, you end up wanting to still play stuff that you wanna hear but also stuff that other people relate to. It’s so similar to skateboarding, you know? If you go to the first spot and you stick on a nose slide or a 50-50, you know it’s gonna be a shitty day! But if you get it going, you’re stoked. But that’s usually a good way to judge how it’s gonna be. A lot of the times I’ll start of with So Young by the Roses-the 7” you gave me-because that song hits with such a punch, it starts off so fast…Ĭorey playing his records not hoarding them. Let’s say I play a Cure song that they’re not feeling, I can think, “OK, I can see they don’t want me to go into deep, heavy, depressing, dark music tonight”, but a lot of the time I like to start off with the Happy Mondays or the Stone Roses, and if Kinky Afro doesn’t get somebody moving, you know that all is lost anyway. Yeah… When you see somebody kinda start to move their feet around, and getting into the vibe, you can go from there. No DJ wants to be standing in a room of miserable people who aren’t dancing. Like when you’re DJing and you don’t really care what the crowd thinks, you’re just playing the songs you wanna hear.īut you’re only getting asked to DJ because promoters or whoever know what you like, and what you’re going to play anyway. But I don’t really care, I play music for myself. Yeah, absolutely! I’m just trying to look good as I get older too, you know? When I see Johnny Marr, I think, “Whatever he’s doing, I want to be doing something similar!” I’ve just been hanging out here and playing records too, and going live on the Instagram playing music, playing DJ sets which has been quite fun for myself, and maybe for the people following me. I don’t want to turn into a fat fuck.Įven your fitness regime is influenced by ‘80s British indie now. Even Johnny was saying the same thing! He’s a real advocate for staying in shape, so I had both the Marrs giving me advice about staying in shape when all this is going on and while I can’t skateboard. Nile’s a skateboarder, but he broke his hip playing football years go and when I told him I’d broke my hip he said the best thing was to get into pilates. I was actually introduced to pilates by Johnny Marr’s son, Nile. I’ve been doing a lot of pilates, this form of exercise. What have you been doing during California’s lockdown? Read on for some truths about the wonderful and frightening world of skateboard life, growing up on tour, the industry, the insecurity and the injury, because as Ian McCulloch knows, nothing ever lasts forever. Well, I’ve asked those questions now and I’m glad I did. Because you don’t ask mates personal questions like that, and these aren’t the kinds of things very many people find easy to bring up. I thought I knew him pretty well, but it turns out there’s a whole lot going on that I had no clue about, just because I never asked. Since he has made the decision to follow his own path, do his own thing and ride his skateboard how he wants, he’s now able to look at his own past through a new, clear lens, and it seemed like an appropriate time to call him up, see what was going on and make an interview of it. He’s also one of the most humble people I’ve known, and not always entirely comfortable talking about himself when there are so many people around him who’ve excited and inspired him, people he’d much rather have the spotlight on instead of himself, hence it being ten years between these two interviews. Maybe it’s because we don’t really want the answer, or they’re questions we’d be uncomfortable answering ourselves, but if you don’t ask, you’ll never learn and you’ll never move forwards. I think that’s because there are so many questions that we, as humans, just don’t want to ask each other and therefore an equal number of topics that don’t get discussed as they should. Thanks largely to Corey’s enthusiasm for the more obscure sides of British post-punk and indie, we kept in regular touch and became friends.Ĭorey is one of the most open and honest people I’ve ever met, and it took me a while to realise that. The interview that ran was great, and it covered everything people would want to hear from Corey at the time, in terms of skateboard opinions and music preferences, and he sent a load of amazing photos for us to use. I think I’ve known Corey Duffel for around a decade now, after first meeting him when I interviewed him about music and skateboarding for Sidewalk magazine. Interview by Neil Macdonald ( / Photo by Ryan Young
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