Jerry Fish on David Bowie

Continuing on with our celebration of David Bowie's new album (The Next Day hit shelves yesterday), we catch up with Jerry Fish, who reveals he's quite the Bowie fan.

"I'm completely biased, but it’s just great to hear Bowie again. I’ve realised, probably more recently, that a lot of my musical tastes would’ve been sculpted by Bowie when I was younger. So I wonder how this record will translate to a younger audience.
“ I heard a bit of Scary Monsters in there. I also heard a bit of the kind of production on Cat People. And strangely in one of the songs, I can hear the same sentiments that Tom Waits had in Hell Broke Luce; a bit pissed, Bowie seems angrier now.
“It’s great that he’s working with Visconti again, but I guess the person that we’re missing in Bowie’s life is Mick Ronson. Visconti is amazing, but if we could resurrect Mick Ronson it would be something else.
“I think Scary Monsters was the last time there was this much hype about a Bowie record. And I have to say, what I love about the modern day David Bowie is that he embraces technology, you never hear him giving out about it. He’s a today man, he’s a now person.
“I’ve been lucky to have met him when he was over doing some stuff with Tin Machine in the Factory in Dublin years ago. And he’s just the most unassuming, down to earth bloke you’ll ever meet. And that’s kind of another surprise, because you expect him to be some sort of alien or something like that.
“I remember hearing Bowie for the first time, I was a T-Rex fan as a kid in the ‘70s, and Aladdin Sane was in the shops the same time as The Slider. I would’ve been very young, maybe nine or 10 at the time.”

Yesterday, Laura Sheeran revealed her favourite Bowie tracks, and in our new issue (out tomorrow) read a track-by-track breakdown of The Next Day with Def Leppard frontman (and mega Bowie fan) Joe Elliot. Order this issue