Linda: I was a chatterbox Nick was precocious the rest of the band were quiet types.įirst gig? First record you bought with your own money? Nick: My maternal granddad had a great voice and I was told he was a great pianist in the pub, but not so much really. Linda: My mother’s family were musical my Aunt sang professionally for 30 years and appeared on TV. A comic strip by Simon Beecroft, 2021 (Japanese version) Magic Roundabout: Tales From the Imaginary Band. We played some quite interesting gigs alongside well known indie bands at the time. Linda: We seemed to gig quite regularly in 1987 flitting from city to city. Were you playing lots of shows at the time? We recorded at Clint’s studio and they were always supportive of us, there was The Tyme Element, King of the Slums, Dub Sex that we felt an affinity with, at the same level as us, getting nowhere really. To think how it is now. ¶ We were friends with Inspiral Carpets. We’d wished we’d been born in the ’60s because everything seemed to be going downhill in the ’80s. We’d been passionate about Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, The Fall before them, but I think we were 17/18 in ’86/’87 & we couldn’t play very well. Nick: Shop Assistants and Jesus and Mary Chain were our stepping off points. Linda: I loved indie/alternative music, ’60s and local bands. Yes, I liked to go to local gigs and support them. What were you listening to at the time? Did you feel part of a scene, a community? Nicola is in Bolton and Maria in Sheffield now. Myself, Paul and Karrie live in Stockport. Linda: We all lived in and around Bolton, then the band all moved to Nottingham. Where all have you lived? And where do you live now? We chatted about music and decided to form the band. Linda: I was attending Art College and met Paul (Chadwick, bass) on the bus. Linda: We formed around the summer of 1986 but split in early 1988. Nick: During the pandemic I was putting the Magic Roundabout LP together and sorting out the promotion with the band, best to be busy maybe? I’d retired as a mental health nurse in 2019 so had time to do that. But gradually stopped that when work started coming in. Linda: Played my classical guitar, painted and learnt some languages. Interview by Gail O’Hara / Images courtesy Magic Roundabout (This interview appears in chickfactor 19, available now in print) Magic RoundaboutĬhickfactor: How have you been holding up during the pandemic? What have you been doing? We checked in with two of the six band members, Nick Davidson and Linda Jennings, to find out more about Magic R and the music they’re making now with Thee Objects. This past year, Third Man Records released a 7-inch single called “Sneaky Feelin’” and a six-song LP called Up, which are so up our alley. Magic Roundabout was a noisy pop band in Manchester (and Nottingham) that existed from 1986 to 1988 and didn’t release any records at the time (apart from a track on a cassette compilation).
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