From: Rhonda Corcoran
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I gleaned the two following articles off of Nexis/Lexis (or is that Lexis/Nexis?). The Church article just has the excerpts of the actual phone conversation (which bares an incredible resemblance to the interview Paul Webb posted to the list recently, but some of the questions here are different). The Mae Moore interview is copied in it's entirety, although I have to explain that Nexis/Lexis seems to do a lot of their own excerpting as I came across a lot of broken phrases and ......'s. Without further ado and babbling:

From the PHOENIX GAZETTE, January 14, 1994: Canadian Rock Star Finds Roots Down Under-

"I was a really shy teenager and all through my 20's, painfully shy," says singer Mae Moore, who.....co-wrote that was used on the soundtrack of the Tom Cruise action flick "Top Gun."

Moore parlayed that brief pop music success into a recording contract in Canada. Her debut, 1990's "Oceanview Motel," sold about 30,000 copies and won her a Vancouver Music Award. But her label, Sony Music, was interested in Moore becoming a commercially successful artist. They encouraged her to co-write with a long list of songwriters,...

".....some really formula rock writers," Moore says. "I was not interested in that."

She fended off all suggestions until the Church's Steven Kilbey was mentioned. He ended up producing "Bohemia," co-writing three of the album's songs.

"He was one of their last choices," Moore says."...interested me the most. I really like him for his sense of melody and his lyrics. He's very familiar around acoustic instruments and I'm also a fan of the Church.

Moore says the eye-opening experience of flying to Sydney, Australia, to co-write with Kilbey was the inspiration for "Bohemia."

"It's quite cosmopolitan and there's a really vibrant music scene there. Every other person I bumped into was a musician and there's bars on every corner and the liquor laws are really lax. Basically, it's a very lively center.

And Steven Kilbey's entourage and environment was a little dark and seedy. There were really lots of good bits to glean from that, without saying anything else."

From the Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1995 The Church, Dreaming in Tongues. By: Bill Locey

Kilbey talked about what's what during an expensive phone conversation from his Stockholm home.

What's up with the acoustic tour?

K: You know, there's just two of us....it'll just be hired guns.

What's up in Sweden; does Stockholm rock?

K: I've got kids here, that's why I've been drifting between here and Australia. There's an underground scene here, but not a lot of places to play. Obviously, when someone like Joe Cocker comes to town, there's always somewhere for him to play.

Why are there so many good bands in Australia?

K: I don't know--everywhere has at least a couple of good bands, I suppose. Originally, we got an English label deal, went to tour England, then toured the continent. It really put us in debt. We had to go back to Australia and work for two years just to pay it back.

Has the Church changed since 1981?

K: Not really, we've just gotten better at it--better at writing and better at....I was 16, I knew I wanted to play. My first band was one of those knockabout bands.

Do you remember the first Church gig?

K: Sure. It was in Sydney, Australia, and I remember we played this song "Is This Where You Live" that ended up being on our first album, and I thought, 'This is it. We're it now.' I could just feel it. We were going places where previous bands I'd been in had never been.

What was a strange Church gig?

K: One time we played at a huge ice hockey rink in New Hampshire and there were only six people there.

What do you think the Church music sounds like?

K: God, I don't know. It's difficult to describe music for others. Right now, all I know is we're going to California, after that, I don't know. Then we'll do another album, but we haven't started it yet.

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