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Media: PressHere's a brief tasting menu into the UK press we have got over the few years whilst promoting the first LP. Stay tuned for new press updates as, when and if they happen...keep reading these illustrious organs.Murder on the Dancefloor Interview with Bizarre Keep It Surreal Our Friends Electric Shock To The System Ire In The Disco Chancers in the nicest possible way |
Interview - Bizarre, February 2003
Dad dancing, OAP sex and buying the moon. Is there nothing this band won’t do for music? Danger! Danger! High Voltage! When we touch! When we kiss! Every song should have a chorus like that. Teaming a Jack White howl with an unforgettable riff, it’s got just the right amount of disco sex sweat and poodle pastiche to get everyone tearing up the dance floor. Formerly The Wildbunch, Electric Six hail from Detroit and live in a world where technicolour high-speed car chases are round every corner. In April 2002 their tour diary headline announced: After repeated requests, Dick Valentine passes Courvoisier. “It’s been a long time coming, but reports that Dick Valentine had finally passed the Courvoisier were confirmed earlier today.” Stuff like that is frankly, good to know. Why have you all got pseudonyms – do you think they’re cooler than your real names? Unfortunately those are the names that we were born with. What, even the Rock ‘n’ Roll Indian? Yep. I heard you suffer from paranoia. I don’t personally think I’m paranoid. I’m right more often than not, but people don’t like to deal with that. I can read people, that’s all. Do any of your band members have any special sexual powers? We’re just American men, doing what we can. Would you like to have any sexual powers? Sure, as longs as it didn’t set me back too much, I’ll take it. What do you think of the video for ‘Danger! High Voltage!’ [It involves a mature lady whose breasts light up, while singer Dick Valentine’s crotch glows. They make out]. The video was a sort of impromptu thing. I’m not even sure how much thought went into it. Dick, the singer, did it with two guys called Kuntz and MacGuire round at his house. The video actually makes me feel uncomfortable. Why? You know, I’m not ageist, so I don’t want to say anything. I’ve only watched it two or three times when other people wanted to see it. I don’t like to watch it. Discos and sex seem to be common topics in your songs. Dick handles the lyrics and there will be some grumbling about certain lines from us. It does seem to be a recurrent theme. We used to be technology obsessed, paranoid white men. Now everyone’s trying to loosen up, giving it their all to be a bit more sexual and dance more often. Do you go to lots of discos? Dick is really big on dancing. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a dance floor freeze in horror as Dick is doing sit-ups in the middle of the floor. It’s really something. He used to do callisthenics and then he would like, lap the dance floor! It was great. Maybe he’ll do that in London next time we come. What emotions should your music inspire? Ergh! The emotion that makes you give us more money! I wouldn’t tell anyone what to think of it cos that would ruin the fun. What little fun there is would evaporate into thin air. Who has the worst hygiene habits? We’re pretty clean guys. M (the drummer) sleeps almost constantly so he tends to maybe miss that window of opportunity where he can get wet. I don’t wanna say that he’s dirty. Would you play a set butt naked? Not right now. We’d have to get some personal trainers involved. I watched your movie on your website. Are you planning on making any others? Definitely, we enjoyed that a lot. We feel we have stories to be told. What will you do if you make wads of cash? A lot of people would probably die. No, not really, I just acquired an acre of moon property for my birthday. It’s true. I’d really like to go up there and start building. Wow, you’re special. Yeah, I’m really excited! I’m a land owner, a space land owner! |
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