If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Bearing in mind that Citizen generally has a ‘no assassination’ policy, I should say someone absolutely massive to start a flame war for cheap publicity…so Kayne West. He’s a bit of a douche. Bring it Kanye!
What can a punter expect from your live show? I can promise them that I’ll have whiplash the next day from all the onstage head banging. I’ll also remember nearly all of the riffs and more than half of the lyrics – which ain’t a bad ratio. It’ll be heavy, groovey, grungey, stoner rock, with some good hooks and a lot of intensity.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
We’ve existed in one form or another for ten years. Alex (bass) somehow teed-up recording time in a high school band competition (well after we’d finished school). He needed a song, so I quickly churned out a punky number called Redneck with a Bomb. We recorded it as Prize Pig – a few drummers, a new name, tonnes of gigs and a shitload of songs later, and here we are.
Tell us about the last song you wrote?
Other than the new jams we’re working on, the last song I wrote for the record was an acoustic number called Bones – it’s pretty different to the rest of the album. My aunt died while we were finishing the record and I wrote a song about it. It was literally written by the time I’d finished playing it through for the first time – it wrote itself in four and a half minutes. That’s never happened before and perhaps won’t again. We recorded a demo at home without a producer – it came out great so we chucked it on the album. I’m really glad it’s on there.
When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc?
We’ve just finished our debut album, Enemies, which took us a monumental amount of time to record. We’re really proud of it and we’ll have it at our upcoming gigs: Prince of Wales this Friday October 25, and two nights at The Espy on Thursday November 7 and Thursday November 28, with The Redcoats which will be sick.
