Dunstable Vector from the band, “Nile River SCUBA Club”, credits the song “Deep Sea Diving (in Scandanavia)” as the song that inspired the creation of his own band and subsequent successful career.
Vector mused:
“…seeing those sorry sods bashing it out night after night screamin’ about deep sea diving and what have you in the greasy East London bar circuit — I mean these joints were essentially smoke-filled dungeons below street level with no windows, you’d have walls leaking water and rats running under the band’s feet… and the unruly crowds… gettin’ everything thrown at the band from tomatoes to bourbon bottles, it was really something. Anyway, I knew I could do better and ultimately gave me the confidence to give the music biz a go.”
“The Unprofessionals had a fan base that seemed to identify more with the zeitgeist of musical masochism rather than the music itself. Their sound was like the loose chain of a one-speed bike at terminal velocity, careening headlong down a steep narrow root laden mountain trail — legs a-flailing barely able to keep up with knuckles bloodied…
…. I always felt that they should’ve named themselves something like Sonic Catharsis or Dissonant Shrapnel — Merely admitting that they were unprofessional was really an absurd understatement.”
Dunstable Vector is a wanker…. He’s just bitter that his audition to join The Unprofessionals failed to utterly. Also an interesting factoid….Apparently Vector and Corkie were very close in the auditions, but Sloppybottom didn’t like Vectors “MAMA” tattoo on his back or something like that.
I believe the tatoo was some what lower than his back. How was it seen by the band I wonder?
Good point Davie-Joe. I’ve often wondered about that story too… because Vector often plays without a shirt to his adoring teenage fans and no one has ever seen any MAMA tattoo… no one that is except Mr. Sloppybottom. Very strange indeed. Now had it been ol’ Pudding in the story, well THAT would have made much more sense.