Define your genre in five words or less:
Punk funk explosion.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
The Clash mixed with Sly and The Family Stone, without the cocaine.
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
Prince, but I don’t need to travel back in time to do that.
What can a punter expect from your live show?
Why are punters at a show instead of a football field where they should be? See, that’s the problem right there.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?
The Coup’s latest album, Sorry To Bother You.
When’s the gig and with who?
Saturday April 19 at The University of Melbourne – Union House. Doors are open at 8pm, $20 on door (18+), we are playing alongside special guests Pataphysics and Ezekiel Ox.
So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you… what do they say?
“Dude! Looks like all the girls are in that show dancing their asses off. We should drink these beers so we can work up the courage to go dance next to them and slowly make it seem like we’re dancing with them.”
Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with?
If I answer that, they’ll never have us actually open for them and blow their crowd’s fucking mind. Funny story – we toured opening for Les Claypool (from Primus). On our first show, we didn’t know that “Primus Sucks!” was a normal thing that their fans yell in support of them. We got off stage after our set and the crowd started yelling “Primus sucks!” and I thought, ‘Wow. We just killed it so fucking hard that we turned Les Claypool’s crowd AGAINST HIM’.”
THE COUP’s Unplugged and Unapologetic: Boots Riley Acoustic Tour with special guests Pataphysics and Ezekiel Ox is on at The University of Melbourne, Union House (18+) on Saturday April 19.
