Interview with Jeevey

Summary:

Sara sits down with the amazing, sublime, talented Jeevey, a legend in the Oasis RPF and Gcest world. Jeevey talks about the challenges of finding time to express yourself amid real life responsibilities; telling the truth through amateur writing; the joys of RPF and her start in the U2 fandom; rejecting the shame of writing taboo topics, and why she likes writing about interesting, compelling characters versus ‘unproblematic’ more acceptable figures (BORING!)

Jeevey is also a fandom expert on Noel Gallagher’s pre-Oasis career as a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets, and his friendship (ahem) relationship, with the now legendary Mancunian Clint Boon. Jeevey chronicles a Clint/Noel romance in her beautiful ongoing work, “Transistor”.

 

We also mention Jeevey’s recent trip to the UK to see both Gallagher brothers in concert; a highlight of which was Jeevey’s front row view of High Flying Birds’ guitarist Gem Archer’s rather, er, overwhelming and impressive physical presents. PRESENCE, I mean!

 

Yes, Sara brings you another 3 hour episode, but c’mon. You know. What else you doin’ today, rasta?! Don’t Go Away, Stand By Me! Some Might Say that we’re gonna Live Forever through our incestuous bandfic obsession! D’You Know What I Mean?

 

Time Caps

• 0m - Introduction
• 12:23 - Interview starts. Jeevey talks early writing and how she got into the RPF fandoms.
• 22:00 - Jeevey on how listening to Noel’s solo material funneled her into the Oasis fic and gcest fandoms. Baby’s first gcest fic! 
• 32:00 - “I don’t want to bring up the Loch Lomond kiss already, but…” aka “collective mainstream fan cognitive dissonance” aka “WOW just LOOK AT THAT SETLIST!”
• 37:00 - Sara asks Jeevey if she has a favorite brother to write. Complicated!Noel and Scary!Liam 
• 49:22 - “The Passing of Peggy Gallagher”
• 57:45 - “Broken Arrow River”
• 1:39:17 - Let’s talk about Clint Boon! And getting into “Transistor”
• 1:54:35 - Digging more into “Transistor”
• 2:08:19 - Exploring and researching LGBTQ culture and subcultures in the UK in the 1980s (Lesbians, punks, Section 28, the AIDS crisis, etc)
• 2:32:40 - Rapid Fire Questions!
• 2:43:30 - Jeevey on seeing Noel and Liam live in the UK in 2022!
• 2:49:45 - Jeevey on Gem Archer’s overwhelming physical beauty
• 2:59:26 - Last question. What does fanfiction (and RPF) mean to you?

 

Episode References

• Work - "The Passing of Peggy Gallagher" by Jeevey  
• Work - "Broken Arrow River" by Jeevey 
• Work - "Transistor" by Jeevey 
• Fanlore article on the U2 banfic website loveisblindness.net (now down). It’s sister LJ community was “U2 Slash” has been ported over to U2 Slash on Dreamwidth
• Rec - "Close" by likeamadonna (U2 fic, Bono/Edge, c2002)   
• Rec - "Fetish" by likeamadonna (B