Hey there. Who are we speaking to and what do you do in the band?
My name’s X and I’m the noise person (lots of contact microphones and pedals and going way too far in the red without hitting any discernible notes).
Who’s drawing together everyone for Incestfest and why?
It was more or less a family (of the chosen kind) effort. A few of the bands on the bill started playing together due to mutual appreciation, then one thing led to another and further bands were born.
You’ve got a lot of crossover members between bands on the Incestfest bill. Is it safe to say you’re all pretty close mates?
Myself and Wayniac – the vocalist for Colostomy Baguette? and Religious Observance – have both been going to gigs for years, though not yet found ourselves in the right situation to have mates who are as eager as this bunch are to make heavy noise with us, and who’re unashamedly fanatical about the knock-off shitcore Merzbow-esque stuff we’ve been churning out in CB? for the last seven years.
There’s a fuckload of sludge, grind/noise and doom acts on the bill. How well do you think these scenes get represented in Melbourne?
There’s a good number of bands around, I reckon, along with a great tendency for folk to collaborate across disparate noisy and heavy genres.
Entry cost is a total of zero bucks. Were you just feeling generous?
We’re all just keen to get up and play as often as we can to as many people who will have us.
