Ian McCulloch
English singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of the post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.
We weren't managed from the word go, like U2 or Simple Minds, to get bigger and bigger and take over the planet.
When all's said and done, I wish them well. I wasn't just the one that ranted a bit in interviews and thought he was great. I thought the group were great.
”I wanna play football for the coach — Liverpool’s coach!”
It feels like there's hundreds of bands in Liverpool. There's some okay ones... But really we're the only one I can think of as being a potentially great band...
How I wanna be exciting is by hitting a great note and people going, "Whoo!" I'm more Tony Bennett. He sings notes that don't exist! The hooter, the hair, the man's like a chiseled Roman god. With the Bunnymen, I was much more Mick Jagger holdin' me willy on stage and wearin' no undies and all that. Now I'm more Cary Grant.