The Tallest Man On Earth ‘I Won’t Be Found’

Krist Novoselic and Andy Cato – the two tallest men in music I’ve ever met.

Krist was in his post-Nirvana band Sweet 75, and after refusing to play darts for Melody Maker I met him for brief interview. He was a massive 6’7″. Andy, I went to university with before he formed Groove Armada. He is an even massiver 6’8″.

The Tallest Man On Earth claims on his MySpace to be ‘so tall I have a feeling that my funeral will be expensive, they’ll have to saw my body in half and put the two parts in separate graves. I guess some people will mourn the top part, some the bottom.’

For someone with such a wonky moniker, and such a line in wacky humour – he cuts a very earnest dash on mp3.

TTMOE sings like a man abandoned as a child – in an abandoned farmhouse wherever it is in Sweden he’s from, probably – who learnt language from a collection of scratchy Bob Dylan records (nasal croaking? Check. Atonal tuning? Check. Adenoidal vowels? Check).

But, in the most unlikely fashion it is the most touchingly, lovely sound. The track has the soaring, melancholy ring of Antony & The Johnson’s ‘Hope There’s Someone’. With Nick Drake on acoustic guitar. And his voice removes any saccharine edge from the ringing country folk.

Single ‘I Won’t Be Found’ is just brilliant. If all a little beard-strokey.

Not that you can tell if TTMOE has got a beard from is MySpace pic, reproduced here, above, up there. He’s so tall, you see… they’ve had to miss his head off. Sigh.

Hilarious those Swedes. The long, long nights must fly by.

More hear:
- Erm, the old, watchamacallit for four tracks. And more tall pics.
- and here for the video to equally ace track, ‘It Will Follow The Rain’. Which features a giant playing a tiny guitar.