Creem Profiles
BALAAM AND THE ANGEL
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
HOME: Hebben.
AGE: Hard to tell under all that hair.
PROFESSION: Big city funtime guys.
HOBBIES: Showing you something special; running out of time; not being afraid; blowdrying.
LAST BOOK READ: How to Keep Your Tresses from Getting Mussed on the Ferris Wheel by Belinda Carlisle.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: When the band's van broke down during their most recent U.S. tour, singer/bassist and former British Leyland employee Mark Morris put his automotive-fixit skills to use, rescuing his fellow Balaamies from mechanical purgatory and the unwanted frizzing certain to result therefrom.
QUOTE: 'Say it loud, we're hirsute and we're proud.'
PROFILE: The Scottish-born Morris brothers—Mark and shaggy-maned siblings Jim (guitar) and Des (drums)—rose from the dregs of the British goth-glam scene, were taken under the wing of Cult frontman Ian Astbury, then promptly decided they'd rather be a pop band. The threesome then risked disrupting family unity when they added second guitarist Ian McKean, following the release of their last LP, Live Free or Die.
BEER: Boy Howdy! (makes a great shampoo too!).