ME has forced a rather nocturnal lifestyle upon Neil Codling.
During the day, when not travelling or posing for photo shoots, he dodges
interview duty to conserve his energy for that evening's top-pop blitzkrieg.
However, after a blistering second-night show in Newport - Brett fired up to
near spontaneous conbustion - Neil settles into a chair in the corridor
outside history's most sparsely populated aftershow to guide us tentatively
through his medical records.
"I didn't collapse." he explains. "I just got the bad end of a buf and
it laid me out. Any time that I haven't played it's just been damage
limitation really, looking after my health, and that was what happened in
Australia. I had to come home and have a rest to stop it getting any worse."
Were you sad to come home?
"Yeah, for a number of reasons, not least there were new places to lpay and
we didn't want to disappoint the fans. There was the sense that I wanted to
go on and do it, but it had to be done,the decision was sort of made of us,
really."
How long have you known you have ME?
"A while, and these things take a bit of a while to diagnose, so you get a bit
worries about what it is. Then you get all these reasons flying around on
the intenet, that I'm our of my face or I can't be bothered to play.
That pisses you off. but when you find out what it is, it's a bit of a
weight off your shoulders."
Have you thought much about your long-term future? It can be quite
a serious illness.
Neil stammers. "There's degrees of...of...of it. And some people can be
completely incapacitated by it, it depends how bad you've got it.
Sometimes these things happen; you get a bug and you have to rest up to
prevent it getting worse. And sometimes you can live with it and
hopefully... y'know... it's finding a balance between work and rest and
once you can do that you can just get better. there's no paramedics standing by.
it's nothing mroe than something that I have to do through and
I'm gonna do exactly what I can and not what I can't. It's just a personal
thing and I'm glad that it's out now. I don't have to surreptitiously
drop in these clues."
How might this affect your role in Suede?
"I dunno. We'll just see how it goes. I can't be perscriptive about it, really.
But once we get to the other side of Christmas, then we'll be writing the next
record so we'll see what happens then."
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