CLOCK DVA QUESTIONNAIRES

7 February, 1981


© John Kersey 1980

I interviewed Clock DVA - at the flat of Rod Pearce, Fetish Records - for the Japanese ROCK MAGAZINE, but unfortunately I did not keep the original interview transcripts. However, the rather silly questionnaires that I got (at least some of) the band members to fill in have been found among the magazine archive, so at least I can reproduce those here.

Many thanks again to Satoru Higashiseto (Forever Records, Osaka) for scanning the questionnaire sheets and the above photo of the interview!


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Name Adi Newton
Age 22
1. Describe in a sentence what each of the following songs is about:
Relentless Thought process and the sometime despair of the written word, also love.
Consent Consent to certain situations, the question of consent.
Sensorium Disco kitsch and the current single line.
North Loop Tape loops of life re ocurring.
Brigade The futility of War.
2. What is "suction entanglement" in "4 Hours"? Something that
3.Which Clock DVA song do you feel most personally involved with? Why?
All of them.
4. Do you see advantage or disadvantage in being based in Sheffield and not in London?
No advantage in Sheffiled.
No No No
5. What/who have influenced your lifestyle and your ideas most?
Too many things have influenced me.
6. What is the reason why you are in a rock group? No.
What is the reason you are in this group? No.

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Name Roger Edwin Quail
Age 20
1. What is your interest outside music?
Photography, cats, reading books by Frenchmen.
2. What/who have influenced your lifestyle and your ideas most? Woody Allen, Geoffrey Boycott, Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, Brian Eno, the Marx Brothers.
3.What is the reason why you are in a rock group?
What is the reason you're in this group?
(ie. your aim/purpose, etc.)

Under the assumption that DVA is a rock group, ie. we talk to "Rock" newspapers, our records are found under "Rock: C" in record shops, etc., I find pleasure in directing creativity into a group, rather than working alone.
4. Do you see advantage or disadvantage in being based in Sheffield and not in London?
No, nothing. I pfer the North to the South, but I would rather live rural than urban.
5. What has been the greatest experience in your life?
Filling this questionnaire in.
6. Which Clock DVA song do you feel personally most involved with? Why?
All of them. They are all group compositions, people don't claim songs, we share them.
7. Here's a space for you. Draw whatever comes into your mind.
**Option for those who can't or don't want to draw: what's your favourite joke? If you haven't got any, fill in the space in any way you like.

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Name Paul Widger
Age 21
1. What is your interest outside music?
Science, drinking, romance & sex.
2. What/who have influenced your lifestyle and your ideas most?
Impossible to say.
3.What is the reason why you are in a rock group?
Personal satisfaction. Instead of complaining about music - make your own.
What is the reason you're in this group? (ie. your aim/purpose, etc.)
Joined this group because I was asked & was keen on their mmusic & was interested in working my own ideas ______ the band.
4. Do you see advantage or disadvantage in being based in Sheffield and not in London?
No disadvantage at the present time - but this might change.
5. What has been the greatest experience in your life?
Making an album.
6. Which Clock DVA song do you feel personally most involved with? Why?
Piano Pain - not sure why.
7. Here's a space for you. Draw whatever comes into your mind.
**Option for those who can't or don't want to draw: what's your favourite joke? If you haven't got any, fill in the space in any way you like.
Charlie Collins refused to fill in the questionnaire and returned it blank.

Steven Judd Turner couldn't be bothered to write the answers in, so he told them to me, and I filled them in for him (see below.)

Name Turner
Age -
1. What is your interest outside music?
Sex & Art. Val Denham.
2. What/who have influenced your lifestyle and your ideas most?
TV, Francis Bacon, Dada.
4. Do you see advantage or disadvantage in being based in Sheffield and not in London?
Too small.
5. What has been the greatest experience in your life?
It's hard to say.
6. Which Clock DVA song do you feel personally most involved with? Why?
4 Hours - aspects of the song.


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