He still likes to keep in touch with his Welsh soul though, “When I was 14 I used to be on the Grange Town end watching Cardiff City, I don’t really go much now, I am too stoned, but I love wearing that T-shirt ‘Soul Crew- Terrifying the English Since 1982’. I met the devil one night down at the crossroads, up in Blaina, I sold my soul and that was it, rock ‘n roll here we go”. How long is it since he left the land of song? “I left about 20 years ago, I come from a family of Mormons so I am the only one that has rejected the way of the lord. Many of those gigs have been with long time Iguana heroes Captian Paranoid and the Delusions and Larry is not too much of a star to sleep on the Captians floor. Larry Love ( pic courtesy of Captain Paranoid)ĭespite the ‘fame’, Larry Love still pops up in Wales on a regular basis, often DJing with his Alabama 3 Sound System. (NB – this interview took place back in 2005, so some of what was said is out of date and needs to be read in that context). Although loosely based in Brixton, front man Larry Love, AKA Rob Spragg, is a Merthyr Tydfil lad, so he feels perfectly at home when we meet up in a Newport pub just before their show in the Newport City live Arena. Larry Love The Alabama Three are probably most famous for the theme tune to cult US TV show ‘The Sopranos’, but anyone who has ventured out away from the TV and been to a festival in the last few years will know that they go way beyond that four minute slice of acid blues genius.ĭespite the name, there are 8 of them and they aint from Alabama.
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