Define your genre in five words or less:
Guitar punk noise pop nothing.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
One hand clapping.
What do you love about making music?
Making music.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
I started gigging in the late ‘80s, in a band called The Koncrete Nomadz, when I was in high school. Yeah that shows my age, I started writing songs back then, but you know what they say, practice makes perfect! Still learning.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
I‘m inspired by things that move me in some kind of primal way. It’s not an intellectual thing so it’s kinda hard to explain. I know I like a band when I can’t stop smiling. Generally I like brash, noisy, messy stuff that’s played from the heart. Concepts tend to annoy me, I dislike cleverness for its own sake or over-rehearsed performers. I rather see a total shambles that’s done honestly and off the cuff, than a perfectly performed piece of dead soulless music.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
Succeed at what? That’s the question, I’ve ground my heart and soul against that stone for decades, success for its own sake is pretty pointless and stupid. Is making it, making money? Selling lots of records? Getting a gold guitar, groupies…all those clichés? From my small experience with it, fame is hell. I think doing it (making music and playing live) is success enough. Sure having to work on the side is a pain in the arse and I rather not have to do, but that’s life buddy, toughen up.
What makes you happiest about what you’re doing?
Getting together with my band-mates and making a racket, then seeing people dance, get off and have a good time. Being lost in the music is the best.
When’s the gig and with who?
We are playing with party maniacs The Euphoriacs, grungers The Loveless and dark-popers The Dark Fair on Saturday May 25 at the Cornish Arms Hotel and it’s FREE!
