Magazine unknown - June 1985 
Interviewer unknown

NAME:
Green Strohmeyer-Gartside, though I prefer just Gartside. I've never told anyone my real first name and I don't see any reason to start now. It's not Kevin or Trevor or Gary or Nigel.

BORN:
June 22, 1956, in Cardiff Maternity Hospital.

NICKNAMES AT SCHOOL:
The only one I can remember is Strawberry which I think must have come from Strohmeyer. I did get a lot of thumping and barracking for having a German surname. It was so bad I had to leave Caerphilly Boys' Grammar Technical School because of it. They probably called me Adolph and things like that.

FIRST RECORD BOUGHT:
I can't honestly remember. I know it was a Beatles record - one of many.

JOBS:
I've never had a real one, but a lot of temporary ones. I worked in an aluminium works, in a garage (to save up for my first electric guitar, which got stolen straight away) and I worked in a firm of solicitors. My job there was to go down to the cells with the barristers while they tried to persuade the prisoners to plead guilty. I enjoyed it at the time and it gave me a rather good insight into how corrupt British justice is. It really is corrupt.

HOME:
A flat in Islington, London.

DO YOU DO YOUR OWN IRONING?
Yes. But I don't have an ironing board since I moved into my new flat. I have to use the kitchen table, which is terrible when you're in a rush.

DO WORRIES KEEP YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT?
Oh God, yes. It's not as bad as it used to be but I worry about anything and have to listen to the World Service to get to sleep. Chart day on Tuesday means sleepless nights on Mondays now, I must say.

HOW DID IT FEEL BEING ON 'TOP OF THE POPS' FOR THE FIRST TIME?
Terrible. I was so ill. I had 'flu really badly and the only way I could do it was by having these intra-muscular vitamin injections which hurt like hell. I was literally doubled up in pain on the dressing room floor and had to be rushed off to a doctor to have another shot just before I went on. So, I did it in a daze and I think I, er, over-compensated a bit in this drugged-up state with too much eye-liner and jumping about. It was wholly unrepresentative of me.

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN YOUR POCKETS?
A packet of Vicks Lozenges, two pound notes (one of which has "Ricky" written on it in biro - perhaps I owe it to him), a front door key and a medal from the Soviet Union which a friend brought back for me.

LAST BOOK READ:
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker. It's the fictionalised letters of a young black girl in the southern States of America. I used to read a lot but I don't really any more.

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR MOTHER?
She lives in Spain so I don't see her very often. It was a few months ago. I took her to a cocktail bar and we bumped into Glenn Gregory (of BEF and Heaven 17) and his wife Sarah, Simon Draper (managing director of Virgin Records) and Spizz (who's played with everyone from The Cure to Heaven 17). She got on very well with all of them. We all got drunk and had a great time.

FIRST CONCERT:
Rod Stewart at the Reading Rock Festival around 1970. The whole weekend I wore a long black dress that I'd nicked from my grandmother's wardrobe. I put it back afterwards and she never noticed. I thought it looked very nice.

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT:
Probably being on Top Of The Pops.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST?
I think it's a disgrace. It's a venal corruption of all that's good in pop music. It twists and subverts it to the interests of the powers-that-be.