New Order drummer Stephen Morris: I keep a tank in my shed
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Apr 15, 2015
Stephen Morris
In this week's My Peccadillo, New Order drummer Stephen Morris reveals why he drives a tank...
I didn’t want a tank. I wanted a classic 1947 Bristol in pearl blue, a true work of automotive art. But Gillian, my wife and partner, said it smelt of 1947, and this was before austerity became fashionable.
When we heard about a tank for sale, she said: “You can drive me about in this.” It was just after New Order released Republic in 1993. My rock star credentials were low, so I became the proud owner of an Abbot Self-Propelled Gun.
I have four military vehicles including an amphibious Ferret armoured car and an armoured personnel carrier. I keep them in my shed, which I had to extend.
It is a good way for our kids to make friends: “My dad has a tank.” My mistake was to park one outside our house. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award turned up, then the Cub Scouts, and I got tank groupies – ex-military men with ‘My Other Car is a Tank’ bumper stickers.
If you have a driving licence, you have a provisional tracked vehicle licence. So you’re completely unsafe but legal to drive a tank. You’d think they’d be good in mud but I end up driving through walls, which is fun but annoys our neighbours.
My bandmates think it’s a useless hobby. But driving a tank, you’re aware of the danger. By the time you park, you are just happy to have survived.
Como están haciendo en esta gira, comenzaron con Alegia para machacar a continuacion con el clasico Crystal, digo clasico pero la verdad es que todas lo son, a pe sar de que como he dicho antes, poca gente creo que supiera mucho de
New Order. Era curioso que miraba a mi alrededor y a pesar de que estabam,os en primera fila, habia espacio de sobras entre todos, como para poder bailar tranquilamente. Ademas de que la gente no se movia casi, solo unas 15 personas que se movian porque les gusta esto del sonar o esa fue mi percepción. Si que poco a poco se vio como la gente se iva animando por momentos, despues de un Regret que paso desapercivido, la primera sorpresa de la noche fue "Isolation" que no tocaban desde hacia 10 años o eso dijo
Bernard, uan canción de esas que nunca dirias que es de Joy Divison, por suena contndente y muy electronica. Siguieron con un clasico Age of Consent, Krafty que sono muy triste para ser una gran canción, despues un clasico para los fans como es 1963 y despues el primer baño de alegria para el publico con Bizarre Love triangle. 
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