URUSEI YATSURA
As the single 'Hello, Tiger' bites a chunk out of the Top 40, Glasgow's URUSEI YATSURA go hunting on a wider plain. Don't expect to see them in the Millennium Dome, though. Words: Damien Love
The cat’s whiskers
WHAT WOULD YOU have in the Millennium Dome. kids? Perhaps a Virtual Robert Carlyle
the previous night playing 'Ibmh Raider. Their single 'Hello Tiger‘ has just nudged furrin
should be shitting out loads of Oasis platinum discs, floating about in flumes. I'd go and see
Clone Army? An exciting multimedia environment exploring the many avenues opened up by the New Deal. sparklingly titled ‘NoFutureScape“? A little Lego dog on a swing? Or maybe you‘d want to stick with the towering hermaphrodite and child. as planned?
‘I like the way they say that it‘s going to represent the New Creativity in Britain and this things head is gonna be totally hollow.‘ contemplates Graham Kemp. one singing. guitar-slinging quarter of the 20th century New Rock phenomenon that is Urusei Yatsura. ‘1 think it should be a massive naked Alan McGee. sitting on a toilet seat. actually.‘ he continues. warming to the subject. ‘and it
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that.”
Seated across the table from Kemp and his fast cooling plate of unwanted chips. lan Graham. the drumming brother half of the Yatsura's mighty brother/sister rhythm machine. ponders at length on the subject. ‘lt is.’ he ultimately concludes. ‘a pile of pish, isn’t it?’
‘1 think. though. it‘s a big thing for the people of Greenwich.” Kemp sums up. ‘A big dome-like thing.‘
Pre-Millennial angst isn’t. to be honest. a major part of the Urusei Yatsura make-up this quiet afternoon in. of all places. Glasgow‘s l3th Note café. Nor should it be. They spent
into the Top 40 by a whisker and. any moment
’lt's basically like being beaten to death by four fifteen-year-old Japanese schoolgirls. After a while you get to like it.’ Graham Kemp
now. their much anticipated and rather fine second album Slain By Urusei Yatsura will be upon us. like a . . . well. perhaps Kemp's description of the record is the most succinct: ‘lt's basically like being beaten to death by four fifteen-year-old Japanese schoolgirls. After a while you get to like it.‘
Some might slay: Graham Kemp, Elaine Graham, Fergus Lawrie and Ian Graham are Urusei Yatsura