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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

Warren Ellis on Steve Albini, Mad Max and the best sandwich: ‘Whipped cream and banana on white bread’

Portrait of Warren Ellis.
Warren Ellis: ‘If I had a sandwich named after me, I think that would be the highlight of my career.’ Photograph: Cyril Zannettacci/The Observer

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?

There was no worst, really. If you have to work, you have to work. I needed money. So I cleaned dishes at a strip club, I cleaned nightclubs. There’s something incredibly meditative about mopping in nightclubs; you have all the base elements of humanity scattered all over them after a Friday and Saturday night. I was a toilet cleaner as well. So I have seen the nasty end of the business. But there was something incredibly meditative about it. I still like to mop the floor.

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