The Dirty 13
With Subculture Hero
This week: Lee Love
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Welcome to The Dirty 13, my weekly column featuring interviews with the hippest of the hip, all them lizard kings, leather queens, and every ego star in between. There’s a whole whack of mad minds out there ripe for the plucking, so I’ve gone ahead and done the, ahem, dirty work for you. It’s everything brilliant and stupid you wanted to know. It’s the best kind of jive about the worst kind of fun. It’s nonsense and speed thrills all rolled into one.

First up: Lee Love, England’s prodigal son of sin and super powered shit can rawk n’ roll. With thunder and unholy redemption on his side, Lee filled out the ranks of The Divine Brown as the heavy hitter in charge of spittin’ and fuckin’. Now Lee is doing it all over again for his newest, dirtiest, and ugliest posse of pussy eaters and piss cutters, The Hip Priests. Lee’s a criminal greaser with a wicked tongue who exemplifies everything sleazy and grinding in this dark mess of a world we live in, the kind of guy who worships Iggy Pop and Zodiac Mindwarp equally, and has a big enough head to think he’s the obvious choice to be the premiere Dirty 13 interview. And, well, he’s right. So let’s have at it, shall we?

 
How many times does The Divine Brown reference itself on The Dirty Gospel According to... album?

Over the 13 tracks at a rough calculation I reckon it’s about 80 times. As the old saying goes, ‘If you don’t blow your own trumpet then no one else will.’ Mind you, whether that’s a metaphor for singing your own praises or self fellatio, I dunno.

Actually, I counted 57 times, but those were direct references. I’m sure there are 23 or so more indirect references hidden in there somewhere, so 80 sounds about right. Tell me Lee, which one of these women is currently besmirching the Divine Brown name?


The chick Hugh Grant buggered.


Some other chick named Divine Brown.

Definitely the second one. Thieving shit. It’s was ours and the other great lady’s. It’s a name for proper rock n’ roll cocksuckers, not pretend soul bullshitters.

What's with all the religious overtones with your band names? Do you really think you can save any of us? Are you really a wholesome Catholic boy at heart?

No fuckin’ way. I really wasn’t planning on maintaining the religious kinda overtones with The Hip Priests but it just happened, and it was such a great fuckin’ name that I/we couldn’t resist it. The great Lemmy had already used the Rockin' Vicars! It’s a cliché but it’s true; I don’t believe in religion or anything much. I mean, any person with even an average level of intelligence (or higher like me) can’t honestly believe that claptrap shit, can they? You may as well believe in fairies and gnomes too. But I do believe in rock ‘n’ roll.

I do believe in fairies and gnomes, but only when I’m listening to power metal. So, you play garage music, but have you actually played in a garage?

Ouch. No.

Ok, well does dressing up like a sailor make you gay? Also, please explain the whole Turbojugend thing, because getting together with a bunch of dudes and throwing on some denim and make-up seems a little too carnival to me.

Oxford English Dictionary…carnival…noun…an (annual) period of public revelry involving processions, music, and dancing. Sounds pretty good doesn’t it? And c’mon, any honest man knows that inside there’s a raging fuckin’ homo itching to get out, even if only on weekends. Dressing up like a sailor does indeed make you look gay, but it also makes you look hot and looking hot means you get laid. That is very likely to be with a girl ‘cause chicks dig camp, or it may be that you wake up having been beaten and meaten by a seven foot trucker. Ha ha ha. Getting laid is good, regardless. Johnny Thunders said there’s a little bit of whore in every little girl and I reckon that there’s a little bit of gay boy in every guy too.

 


Gonna get laid?

Christ, that’s a scary thought. Also, quoting from the Oxford English Dictionary definitely makes you gay. The only dictionary we refer to around here is Tony Slug’s Roadhog Dictionary. Hey, come to think of it, I believe Tony Slug also likes to dress like a sailor. Well, if Lee Love and Tony Slug can do it, it must be ok. Plus, rocking out to Turbonegro is about the manliest thing you can do, isn’t it? Ok, enough sailor talk…I'm going to go ahead and assume you've punched someone in the face before. What did they do to deserve it?

The last time I remember was when some prick had a go at a friend of mine in some shitty club in London. Sweet as a nut – straight to the fuckin’ chin and straight onto his arse.

That’s better. Quote me your favourite line from Zodiac Mindwarp's Get Your Cock Out and tell us how it applies to your life.

I can’t. As you know I sent you my copy as you were too far away for a conventional sexual favour and I haven’t yet replaced it. The title says it all anyway; it’s all about the cock out. And the rock out.



Yeah, the whole thing is one great and disturbing quote. Thanks for sending it to me. Speaking of warped minds and warped verbiage, have you ever run into Stu Gibson at a pub? If so, do you two sit down with some pints and speak in a loose-lipped, slick-tongued language that no one else in the world can understand?

Shockingly enough, I have only met the magnificently sideburned Mr. Medicine Gibson just the once. As you correctly presume, our super snake-lipped, silver-tongued, divine yet profane supercool machine gun speed patter coupled with our Earth’s core hot good looks and sartorial elegance soon attracted envious dagger stares from any nearby territorial males as their wives, girlfriends, and underage daughters soon became entranced and drawn to us like sexualized moths to a flame or sailors tempted to their death upon rocks. In a pub, in Manchester, drinking lager.

That seems about right. Ok, without referring to the music, and using as many expletives as you can, explain in 30 words or less the greatness that was/is Rocket from the Crypt.

Punk fuckin’ rock. James motherfuckin’ Brown. Rats. Raping apes. Snakes. Big bollock, pussy wetting sideburns. Fire, skill, soul, and cunting speed. Rocket. From. The. Motherfuckin’. Crypt. Ladies. And. Gentlemen. Yeah!


Fire, skill, soul, and cunting speed.

Excellent work, Lee. What's your pomade of choice?

Black and White. Teen pussy.

What's your masturbation material of choice?

Club Strawberry. Raw Power. Give me pink. The new Hip Priests album.


One of Club Strawberry’s finest.


Whose idea was it to rip off the Too Fast For Love cover for your "Juiced Up N' Loose" single cover?

Nikki Sixx’s. Nah, it only dawned on us after it was done. Our friend Sonic Lee, who does some of our artwork in return for getting a small reflection of our glory, did it. We were initially thinking of The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers and then obviously we went, shit, yeah, that too. But we liked it so much that we stuck with it. You will note that ours obviously has the biggest cock of the three.


Duly noted. Finally, Lee, were you Eric Von Zipper in a past life?

Ha. It was only after seeing this crazed question that I had to check who the fuck he was. Nice camp leather joyboy motorcycle cap. So I’ll say yes.


Definitely one of dem Ratz.

 


Death to surfers. Long live rock n’ roll.

-  Jeff "Dirty 14" Warren     

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