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Rob Zombie’s return to the UK is probably one of the most long-awaited comebacks in recent memory. BRAD BARRETT gained access to the King of the Zombies’ inner sanctum to enquire about his return and how he manages to balance his twin passions for music and film...
LIVING DREAD the
ny band that puts on a great live spectacle but leaves its audience starved of seeing them in concert for over a decade better have a bloody good excuse but triple Grammy nominee Rob Zombie has not been resting his dreadlocked head. Instead he has spent his time divided between music and film. His decision to do so, leaping between two vastly different disciplines, was not taken lightly or particularly keenly either. “The reason I was getting tired of
music...actually, let me rephrase that. I was never tired of music, I always loved music. I was tired of being in a band,” he explains. “I was in White Zombie which, by the end, was a very miserable situation with people that weren’t getting along but the band was huge and I was like ‘this sucks! We have this huge band, but it’s no fun’ so I quit. I left to start my solo thing, everybody was friends, it was wonderful, the band got huge again and it was the same problems bedding in where nobody was getting along, they couldn’t stand each other and I was fed up and was like ‘I can’t keep going on tour with people who aren’t even talking to each other’. Everyone is fighting but no one will say why they’re mad. It was just a drag and I’d been going through that scenario for 15 years and it’s really draining. What movies did was it got me away from that sort of constant fighting that bands love to do with each other.”
During the past five years, Rob Zombie has continued to release albums – namely 2006’s Educated Horses and last year’s Hellbilly Deluxe 2, which has just been issued in a deluxe edition with all new songs – and tour in the US, but his time writing and directing means he’s rarely stepped outside of his home territory.
“I haven’t been anywhere. We used to go to Japan and all of these places and it’s only recently I’ve been able to go back there so I’m trying to get back
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