Tony

Hello from Tony Kick-boxing Phil Collen from Def Leppard is teaching Tony kick-boxing Studded Wrist Bands (from Kerrang!) "Have you got your studded wristbands?" Tony asks Lionel Blair. "Do I need some?" gasps Lionel, eyes wide. "For the Kerrang! Awards you do," deadpans Tony. "I'm sure they'll sell 'em somewhere in the store."

Music Collection
I inherited my sister's record collection when she went to college - Led Zep, Free, bands like that. It were good, it were loud and it were something to pose to in front of the mirror. That were me hooked.

Guitar

Tony originally wanted to be a guitarist.

 

Audition Sark told me to learn Teenage Kicks but at the audition i sat on Shutty's drum riser and leigh sang. When they'd finished they said "what d'ya reckon?". I said "oh aye, great" and they said "right you're in". Rubber pants I remember trying to skid on me knees in rubber pants at eigher Reading or Phoenix, but the rubber pants stopped dead and I skidded on, and I ended up with them around me ankles. Other Bands When I see these mangy f***ers walk onstage looking all f***ing serious - it's just f***ing laughable!

Music Scene
It's just a big Dance Like Your Dad contest, there's no rebellion or laughing at yourself anymore, just people copying 60s rock stars.

Music Ads
We started in the wanted ads at the back of the magazines and worked our way to the front cover.

 

Sweetcorn Tony hates sweetcorn, calls them "old men's teeth" and a stupid vegetable. October 1990 Terrorvision support Slaughter at the Marquee, London. "It was ace, that gig. We all went down to London in the back of a Luton van with no windows, and it was freexing cold. Slaughter complained to the Marquee staff because we were drinking,, which was a bit sad." Bradford I'd like to buid a big wall aroud Bradford and just have casinos and coffe houses inside. it would be ace. A rockers casino in all black, an indie casino where you never look at your cards cos you're too busy staring at your shoes. I'd be Sir Tony of Bradford. Oop North When we started we had a couple of pigeons and I used to have a lurcher.

Ice-T
In July 1995, Tony met Ice-T. The original gangsta meets the original pranksta.
Tony: "I call him Nice T. He's lovely."
"Ice did me an answerphone message, saying he'd got me tied up and he was robbing my house."

Britrock Sign
(On the cover of Kerrang, Tony holds a BRITROCK sign.)
Tony: "I didn't actually hold that. It's special efects."
Mark: "That's slander, that is."
Shutty: "No, it isn't. I've seen him walking around Bradford with that Britrock sign."

 

Confession "I'm going to marry another man!" Winning "tastiest geezer" " I can't help being six-foot-four, dark and handsome."

Taxis
"There's still a law in England stating that a taxi driver has to carry a bale of hay in his boot."

  Barcelona
"In Barcelona they thought I were a cleaner. They chased me with a mop."

Blues
"We didn't have the blues, we had the silvers!"

Dream Date
"Ruby Wax, because she's funny, and I wouldn't have to bother talking. I could sit down and drink and smoke and just listen." What music would you play to get you both in the mood?
"In the mood for what? Valentine Romance? Slayer."
"I'd lie on a beach with me arse in the air like she did on her television programme with Pamela Anderson the other day. That were one of the funniest things I've seen."

Bye bye!