Colin_in_Mexico

Are your dreams at night three sizes too big?



Tá Caoimhín glic go maith. - Kevin ist ganz schön schlau.



“There was a general resentment that people knew Sonic Boom was in Spacemen 3, but couldn’t name the drummer, the bass player… a million and one bands have had the same problem.”

Is this really why one of the most influential underground bands of the last decade disintegrated? How about “musical differences”?

“It certainly is musical differences, but to most people listening they would perhaps be imperceptible. That really gets my goat, I’ve gone out of my way to use different sounds and effects and particularly musicians, and Jason has just done exactly the same… one of the main reasons the band split was because I felt Jason was aping everything I was doing. Any direction I made towards something different, he would just follow.”



For Peter, the final straw was seeing giant “Spacemen 3” logos on Spiritualized records and tour posters.

“I was pretty peeved because the whole thing was done in total secrecy, and everyone involved was told not to tell me about it, which is quite different from my solo project which was all done totally in the open.

“The other thing that riled me was when the manager we’d jointly sacked actually got back together with Jason…”



“Pete never considered himself leader of anything until some bastard wrote “Sonic Boom, leader of Spacemen 3”… At the time I didn’t give a shit, but in a way I think Peter’s got a bigger safety net than most people as far as drugs are concerned. So saying in the press that heroin’s cool, that you can eat three square meals a day and still be an addict – it isn’t the same situation for other people. Most people think ‘Do I buy three square meals or do I get my next hit together?’.” - Jason Pierce

Tearing down the motorway, heading home, the echoing words of Peter Kember’s mother, Mrs Sonic Boom, encapsulates the situation far more concisely than anyone else interviewed.

“Basically, Peter is just this driven person and Jason is more… laid-back,” she sighs, pouring out a round of tea. “Poor Jason.”

If only it was that simple...........
with regard to having someone financially & morally steal something from you - is that your idea of a good friend ?
Jason wanted to pass off the work of my soul as his own . I dont expect most folk to understand .
'no girls allowed' was'nt a hard & fast tour -just an anti-yoko device.
I cant expect non-band members to understand that either .

I've made many fantastic lifelong friends thru S3 for which i'm truly grateful but this site is a canker on the face of the band .
If anyone wants to direct their smart alec questions directly to me i'll deal with it , but in reality its more about some sort of show-off shittyness that you need to lay your turds in public & expect others to walk amongst them, that reminds me of all Jason's worse traits & inherently is woven throughout Spiritualized's history . the band was born out of jealousy , thievery & a disloyalty of classical proprtions. Nothing good thatways comes & burnt fingers ,unpaid royalties & uncredited/stolen work are the harvest of that .
I've been saddened over the years by Jason's theft & lack of acknowledgement for what he's stolen or borrowed from me & others he's worked with. thats his karma -which i'm sure he's getting in spades .
Maybe its a bit rough to slough Jason with these unpalateable 'fans' but today it has a horrible resonance of truth.


“I stopped going round to his house and he never came round to mine either,” says Pete of Jason. “He was never really bothered with the business side, he would like only come in at the end of a deal and throw a spanner in the works. I wasn’t prepared to do all the work and just get spanners, so I stopped speaking to him so he could just see how much work I was doing.” - Sonic Boom

So, Jason, what do you say when you bump into Sonic down at Woolworths in Rugby?

Jason smiles: “I don’t think Pete’s the sort of guy who goes into Woolworths. Huh! Huh!”

The trip is over.