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30 : JAN : 08
Firstly, thank you for agreeing to do an interview for Nocturne! We hope it's not too cold in Germany, and appreciate your words! An absolute pleasure!
So, two-thousand-and-seven was a busy year for Angelspit. After a tour of the US, you've been abroad in Europe for a year. I imagine both continents attract a different kind of audience, and that there are major cultural differences between Europe and the US. The USA is very similar to Australia/NZ. Similar
cloths, EXACT same music…it’s all very similar. You
play a gig to a room full of people, then travel 2 hours, and play
another gig to another room full of people (it helped supporting
the Cruxshadows) It was all very similar from state to state.. We came out of it with a real appreciation for
the Australian and NZ scene. Our countries are both very inventive
and friendly. Australian and New Zealanders make a lot of their
own cloths, and make some truly diverse music. Our scenes are small
but they ROCK. AU/NZ, every person we spoke too wanted to know about AU/NZ’s scene. We all need to support the clubs more. We need to tune into the local radio shows more. We need to buy the cloths made by the local designers and make this scene grow. We need to buy the CDs and Tshirts from the local bands. Our scenes kick ass! A funny thing about the USA - we would play in
a town with a population of 100,000…and there would be about
100 there. But the funny thing was that it was in the middle of
winter and the snow was piled 2 feet high (I shit you not –
we were unloading the vans in -15C)…and still people were
coming out….and it was a Tuesday night The answer is simple – support your scene, watch it grow. Take your friends out to all the clubs and HAVE FUN. No audience = no scene.
Where do you prefer to tour, and have any experiences from being abroad influenced the material on the album you are currently working on? Obviously AU and NZ. After that the USA and England…then Europe (I think we’ve annoyed Europe enough for now!)
After the release of Krankhaus (2006), Angelspit signed to Dancing Ferret. Although you released a remix album (Surgically Atoned, 2007), the next album will be your first release with new material on Dancing Ferret. YES!
Does the album have a working title yet, and has being signed to DF changed the means by which your album is produced technically, artistically, or financially? We are still undecided on the title.
Artistically and finically Dancing Ferret take a big step back. They know we make our art in our own chaotic fashion, and they respect that it is vital that *WE* fund the CDs through our merch. Europe has a thriving counter-culture movement. Have the two of you had the chance to visit or play any squats, communes or alternative festivals, and how would you compare the European "alternative" movement to that of Australia? Not many squat gigs…but heaps of smaller gigs. The main difference between the European and the
Australian scene is that the European scene is serious because it
takes itself seriously. Australia has this stupid self deprecation
syndrome.
Whilst in Germany, Angelspit got the chance to play perhaps the world's biggest gothic festival -Wave Gotik Treffen. Did you meet any major artists, and can you describe the WGT experience to readers from the point of view of a punter, and also from the point of view of a performer? It rocked! Bands are a lot of fun…but their crew are usually more wild. There is an infamous merch girl named Laura (she does the merch for a seriously gigantic American band)…she is THE BEST FUN! We were invited to a cocktail wank with several *huge* bands, but chose to get shamefully drunk with Laura and some friends and fans in an underground bunker that played the most insane electro cyber industrial! If you get a chance, you MUST go to WGT…there is something abstractly amazing about waiting in line in a supermarket that is FULL of Goths (like 300!!), or being on a tram that is PACKED with Goths.
You have no doubt met some fantastic people and tasted many different cultures. We know as artists you have an unquenchable thirst for new experience, knowledge and influence. Have your adventures resulted in a desire to permanently live overseas, or have you found a new appreciation for home? We’d love to be in Europe for European summer
– the festivals ROCK. American 'Fall' is a brilliant time
for touring the USA…
Many young artists struggle to make a living off their work, and often support themselves with a job. Is this still the case for Angelspit, and how many sacrifices have you had to make to do this overseas expedition? We do not go clubbing because we do not have the
time or money. We have worked extremely hard to make something that
has artistic integrity. At this moment, we have to complete one more track,
and then the album is done. If we don’t mix/produce it right,
we’ll turn a good track into a steaming turd. The problem
is that we are, at this moment, totally exhausted. We have a looming
deadline for the album - if we miss the deadline, the album will
not be ready for our tour. Tall Poppies syndrome is absolute bullshit. Self doubt is a vile disease. You can have lots of money to buy all the trivial plastic toys you desire, OR you may create your art. Choose one.
If Angelspit could make a major impact on their fans either politically or personally with your next album, what is the one thing you would drive into their skulls? Get Active. Throw away your TV. Make the art and
music you have always wanted to. ROCK! ZooG. |
