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"The Rebel was born Benedict Roger Wallers on September
15th 1971 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Then I had breakfast and did some drawing then i went for a ride on my bike then i had lunch then i made
a set-up then i went for a bike-ride then it was tea. Then i was sent to prison to do community
service for 10 years for gobbing at a baby.
There it was that he learnt
the
harsh lessons of swopping
to 3rd
person and came out
hard, gritty, urbane/urban. With the money left
over from buying
3 A's and a 1 at step he bought a four track which his parents payed
for in 1989. Recorded first
album "The End of An Ear" 98-90. i mean
89-90, it was about the end of the eighties
boo-hoo, chiz, wot
no rubbers ekcetera. More albums followed. The
Rebel was calling himself "WALRUS", a permutation of our surname.
Then
a girl called agh i can't
remember was doing a folk night open-mic
come one come
all and do your shite there in edinburgh where "I stayed
on my own for a few" years,
to quote Him* so i got up a few of my songs for it and presented
a sort of anti woman pro-feminist
Race/Racist
Hate persona, compared
v. favorably by one of the audience to Dylan, getting
a few laughs, see page 58 for my first stand up gig. George Miller,
Edinburgh music legend, was going out with the Rebel's
best friend Felicity, and
he wanted to play some drums, by way of
relaxation
from
his professional band The Kaisers, wherein he played guitar, sang and wrote strict 1962 beat songs. He urged me to start
a band so i did. i asked Simon Stephens to play guitar. But i wanted to do a country
band because that was what i was mainly into -
Wynette, Cash,
the Carter Family etc. - so we needed bass, so we got
Alan Crichton in on guitar, Simon moved
to
bass. Well anyway
that's another story.
The Rebel started in earnest in about 1998
when it became a drag trying to get the Country
Teasers together for gigs. I was always recording albums anyway.
Started
off playing covers mostly. Then The Stallion formed : me
& Alastair, the Teasers' guitarist, playing
exclusively covers. Then
The Stallion went quiet - we've got a gig
coming up, though - and
The Rebel got very busy. Things took
a turn for the muchmoreexcitinglive when we became
a two piece in January this year, namely
B.R.
and S (Sophie) WAR - POLITICZ (nee Wallers/Politowicz), Alastair Mackinven's current favorite drummer after Jon Bonham.
We toured France, then we played
Madrid, then we toured
France
& Spain. Now The Rebel's got 3 albums coming out in San Francisco,
texas and London. He's working on his 27th studio album
"FREDERICK
THE GREAT'S SECOND HARD ALBUM" now. It's almost finished : i just have to select the
best 10 tracks and make it a 30 minute album.
The most exciting
news of all is this web-site, constructed
by my brother Christo last
week (June 2005) ! It's going to be the best wwwebsite in the wwworld. The Rebel's parents just gave the Rebel a new computer for a wedding present so I'm really hoping that's the end of my Ludd stance, a phony and weak and denialist stance. One wasn't born
Mozart to cunt out of
it like a leetle sheet or a faggot,
linguistically
spaking.
*The inventor of current parlence : Mark E Smith,
The Fall
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