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Musician Alex Lloyd, once touted by Rolling Stone magazine as Australia’s spiritual answer to Junior Kimbrough, has announced today his tell-all autobiography will be released this year – just in time for Mothers’ Day.
The soulful Virgo is in town to promote the book and he caught up with The Advocate’s entertainment reporter, Bernice Twisp.
Bernice Twisp: Hello Alex! Welcome to Betoota! How do you like the place so far?
Alex Lloyd: It’s great! Everybody here is so friendly! Very hot, though! What’s the AC on? [laughs]
BT: Yes it does get very fucking hot here, Alex. We’re on the edge of the Simpson Desert if you hadn’t already noticed.
AL: [laughs]
BT: Now Alex, you’ve had number one records, number one albums and now a book poised to be a best seller! How do you find the time?
AL: I just thought it was time I took the mask off and really let my fans know the real Alex. I’ve bared my soul in this book and I think a lot of my fans will appreciate that?
BT: Like what?
AL: Well, there’s a part in the book where I speak about my first experience with drugs. Me and a school friend found some dried lavender in the upstairs loo when we were like 12. We rolled it up in some old computer paper and smoked up.
BT: Interesting. Tell me more about the title of the book?
AL: It was my publisher’s idea. I wanted to call it ‘Party Pies and No Dry Eyes: The Alex Lloyd Almanack’ but she thought it’d be lost on a few people!
BT: There’s another part in the book about your healthy rivalry with Pete Murray that almost spilled over into something physical at WaveAid back in 2005. Call you tell us more about that?
AL: I’d rather not give away everything in the book, I mean you’ve picked out two of the best yarns in the book. The rest is just about me trying to crack the virtual greyhounds and singing at footy players’ weddings.
BT: Why did you bite Pete Murray?
AL: Well, if you’ve read the book, you’d know that he bit me first. Bernard Fanning had to choke him out with his thighs. Michael Chugg got knocked out like 10 minutes before the show started. It was bedlam. Adam Spencer broke a bass guitar over Nick Cave and all Nick did was turn around and say something in Latin and spit on the floor.
BT: Sounds like a good story?
AT: Just buy my fucking book.
“I Was Amazing” by Alex Lloyd will hit all good bookstores on May 1.
More to come.
