The Peth frontman Rhys Ifans has revealed how his new video features close-up anatomical detail of the band members’ insides during a bizarre interview exclusively for Q Radio.
In an expletive-heavy discussion for the Q The Jury programme, Ifans (pictured for Q magazine by Mick Hutson) also told how hearing The Verve took him back to his loutish youth and in an ill-conceived analogy, suggested that The Gutter Twins' new single was like “being date-raped”.
The Notting Hill actor, who has launched a music career with Welsh band The Peth, is releasing his debut album Golden Mile next month. Turner Prize-shortlisted artist Jake Chapman, whose works have included Hell and a series of defaced Goya works, has been enlisted to create a promo for their soon to be available single, although it is unlikely to be shown on mainstream TV.
Ifans, in the interview to be broadcast on August 6 on Q Radio at 9pm, said: “We didn’t want to be featured in any of our videos so we thought let’s just put a camera inside us all so Jake came up with the clever, but slightly painful and intrusive, idea of passing a camera through our mouths or anuses and passing it right the way through our bodies.
“So it’s a case of ‘inside The Peth’ and each band member swallowed a camera or had it inserted. So it’s a journey to the inside of The Peth. I look better from the inside than from the outside I think. We suffer for (our) art.”
Appearing with bandmate and erstwhile Super Furry Animals drummer Dafydd Ieuan to review the singles, Ifans delivered a poor taste comment likening The Gutter Twins new single God’s Children to being date raped.
“It kind of draws you in. It’s kind of like being date-raped - which I like,” said Ifans.
Asked by presenter Paul Rees, Q’s editor in chief, if that was to be taken as a good thing, Ifans responded: “Well yeah, for guys.”
The actor, whose films have also included Enduring Love and The Shipping News, Ifans said The Verve brought back fond memories of getting into scrapes. “I love The Verve. They supplied the soundtrack to my early skulduggerous life. Every time I hear Richard Ashcroft sing I want to break the law.”
He and Ieuan descended into expletive-strewn exchanges as they disagreed about the quality of the singles, telling each other to ‘f*** off’. Ieuan said that hearing Noah And The Whale’s single Five Years Time made him “want to twat Rhys”.
As they rounded off the interview Ifans declared: “We’re going to the pub. It’s a beautiful day and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna get smashed and then sober up and worry oh my god did we make fools of ourselves on that f***ing radio station thing? I need a lawyer.”
The actor has also given a colourful interview to the latest edition of Q which is on sale now. The Q The Jury show is repeated at 6pm on Sunday, August 10.
12:24 PM | 01/08/2008
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