Interview with Jeevey

Summary:

Sara sits down with the amazing, sublime, talented Jeevey, a legend in the Oasis RPF and Gcest world. Jeevey talks about the challenges of finding time to express yourself amid real life responsibilities; telling the truth through amateur writing; the joys of RPF and her start in the U2 fandom; rejecting the shame of writing taboo topics, and why she likes writing about interesting, compelling characters versus ‘unproblematic’ more acceptable figures (BORING!)

Jeevey is also a fandom expert on Noel Gallagher’s pre-Oasis career as a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets, and his friendship (ahem) relationship, with the now legendary Mancunian Clint Boon. Jeevey chronicles a Clint/Noel romance in her beautiful ongoing work, “Transistor”.

 

We also mention Jeevey’s recent trip to the UK to see both Gallagher brothers in concert; a highlight of which was Jeevey’s front row view of High Flying Birds’ guitarist Gem Archer’s rather, er, overwhelming and impressive physical presents. PRESENCE, I mean!

 

Yes, Sara brings you another 3 hour episode, but c’mon. You know. What else you doin’ today, rasta?! Don’t Go Away, Stand By Me! Some Might Say that we’re gonna Live Forever through our incestuous bandfic obsession! D’You Know What I Mean?

 

Time Caps

• 0m - Introduction
• 12:23 - Interview starts. Jeevey talks early writing and how she got into the RPF fandoms.
• 22:00 - Jeevey on how listening to Noel’s solo material funneled her into the Oasis fic and gcest fandoms. Baby’s first gcest fic! 
• 32:00 - “I don’t want to bring up the Loch Lomond kiss already, but…” aka “collective mainstream fan cognitive dissonance” aka “WOW just LOOK AT THAT SETLIST!”
• 37:00 - Sara asks Jeevey if she has a favorite brother to write. Complicated!Noel and Scary!Liam 
• 49:22 - “The Passing of Peggy Gallagher”
• 57:45 - “Broken Arrow River”
• 1:39:17 - Let’s talk about Clint Boon! And getting into “Transistor”
• 1:54:35 - Digging more into “Transistor”
• 2:08:19 - Exploring and researching LGBTQ culture and subcultures in the UK in the 1980s (Lesbians, punks, Section 28, the AIDS crisis, etc)
• 2:32:40 - Rapid Fire Questions!
• 2:43:30 - Jeevey on seeing Noel and Liam live in the UK in 2022!
• 2:49:45 - Jeevey on Gem Archer’s overwhelming physical beauty
• 2:59:26 - Last question. What does fanfiction (and RPF) mean to you?

 

Episode References

• Work - "The Passing of Peggy Gallagher" by Jeevey  
• Work - "Broken Arrow River" by Jeevey 
• Work - "Transistor" by Jeevey 
• Fanlore article on the U2 banfic website loveisblindness.net (now down). It’s sister LJ community was “U2 Slash” has been ported over to U2 Slash on Dreamwidth
• Rec - "Close" by likeamadonna (U2 fic, Bono/Edge, c2002)   
• Rec - "Fetish" by likeamadonna (Bono/Edge) started in 2002, then went on hiatus for 14 years until the author finished it in 2016! Incredible!!
• Resource - “Gallaghercest, a Primer” by Snickfic (LiveJournal) 
• Resource - “Mad for Our Kid” quote archive 
• Resource - Oasis Interviews Blogspot 
• Fic Archive - “Mad for Our Kid” LJ Community
• Fic - "Whatever I Choose" by Jeevey baby’s first gcest fic!
• Twitter post from "Mainly Oasis" on the anniversary of Oasis at Loch Lomond. Aka, "WOW What a Setlist, that!" Or, "Collective Fandom Cognitive Dissonance re: brothers kissing." 
• “I AM DISTURBANCE” GQ Interview, Feb 1998 (Oasis Interviews Blogspot)
• Fic Rec - "Hawkmoon" the U2 cowboy fic - Index of entries on Livejournal
• Youtube -  Liam singing "Once" and looking GODLIKE at MTV Unplugged (Hull City Hall, 2019) 
• Influence - Youtube - trailer for “Silent Tongue” the River Phoenix film we mention that was an aesthetic and tonal influence on Jeevey’s “Broken Arrow River”
• Influence - Ford Madox Ford’s “Parade’s End” (Goodreads)
• Influence - Robert Duvall’s film “The Apostle” (1997) trailer
• Clint & Noel in Bed - "Aw, look at us." (Jeevey tumblr post with XFM clip, 2006) 
• 1993 Inspiral Carpets Interview (a good example of Clint Boon manspreading and dominating the interview, and Tom Hingley the singer and frontman quietly holding the mic for Clint)
• Resource - “Meet the lesbian punks who've been written out of London's history” (Time Out, April 2017) article jeevey linked on tumblr for context on UK queer culture in the 80s
• Gcesty tune - “Take Me” by Oasis (1992 demo remastered by a fan in 2021) and lyrics
• Fic Rec - “Stop the Clocks” by savageandwise (Liam/Noel present day)
• Fic Rec - time's slipping away (and what will it hold for me?) by mansgotalimit (young!Liam and present day!Noel, WIP)
• Fic Rec - "The Swing of the Planets in Orbit" and its sequel "Memories in Your Lungs Like Air" by Snickfic (Liam/Noel ABO AU series) 

 

Contact and Credits:

• Music: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
• Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com 
• Instagram: @talkinfanfic
• Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com