Rozzer Speaks To Mozzer:


Radio 1 Newsbeat speaks to Martin on Meeting his Idol 
(Morrissey)...14th July 2000

Gene's Martin Rossiter has at last met up with Morrissey. Since Gene's 
first single in '94 Martin's been haunted by vocal comparisons to the 
former Smiths frontman. And so when Gene were in LA, recording 
'Rising for Sunset', their first ever live performance album, Rossa met 
Mozza. Martin told Radio 1:

"I'm still quite good friends with Alain Whyte who is a-hem (coughs)'s 
guitarist. He lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Blossom, he rang 
me up and said: "Hi, I'd really love to see you mate" and he brought him 
with him. He was large, actually, quite a big feller, that really 
surprised me. A bit like Tony Blair, he's really big, that surprised me 
when I met him. He was huge. Huge!! It really was quite exciting, I mean 
I bought his records, and it's always lovely to meet people who when 
you're 14 you'd listen to their records. And he was quite shy and I was 
quite shy, and beer was drunk... and that was about it. And we talked 
about... well I don't know what we talked about because I was pissed." 


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