Define your genre in five words or less:
Tom Waits impregnating Led Zeppelin.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
Dave Matthews sweating Pink Floyd.
What do you love about making music?
Tying a narrative arc to an aural arc, the way words gain weight when there are fewer.
What do you hate about the music industry?
If industry implies making money, then the fact that we’re not involved in it…
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
An elderly Beethoven, so as not to take too many chances with musical time travel causality.
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why?
Sri Chinmoy. So atheism can reclaim John McLaughlin’s soul.
What can a punter expect from your live show?
A puppet show, an interruptive show, a faded thrust under-fueled; left to peel back banana-skin like; explodes like a firework over Brunswick St.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?
Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with?
Milli Vanilli for a fair contest.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Salvaging the last salacious sinews of the stinking, sun-bleached ordinary.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
If we knew then we could bump this up to a full page spread.
What makes you happiest about what you’re doing?
The money we earn from music enables us to keep our figures trim.
And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing?
The money we earn from music forces us to keep our trim figures.
Describe the best gig you have ever played.
A Tru-Mold warehouse party where at the climax of our set the organisers burst the lining in the ceiling. It then proceeded to rain buttons on us; the audience burst in a flurry of buttons; the evidence haunts us still today, lingering in compartments.
Describe the worst gig you have ever played.
A Miss Libertines gig where we tried to pass off a smoking guitar amp as a featurette.
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording?
This time last year we were forcibly shut down 8 minutes into our set by the police, while singing four-part-harmony over an acoustic guitar on a rooftop.
HUMANS AS ANIMALS play an October Tuesday night residency at The Toff In Town, kicking off Tuesday October 2 with Hiatus Kaiyote and Lopaka.
