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Interview with Kevin Blechdom and The Ching Chong Song (Daniel Gower, Julia LaMendola) 27th of October 2006.
We caught the crew pretty boozed up backstage (they did consume a bottle of vodka on stage) right after the gig. They played last and for a very long time (lucky bitches we were!) on the opening night of Ladyfest Rotterdam. Hyper after the performance, they start to talk even before we can turn on the minidisc....
OvaryAction: So you are going back to the states now?
Julia: No, we're going back to Berlin.
OA: Are you based in Berlin as well (as Kevin)?
J: No we are based in New York, but we have been staying in Kevin’s house, which has been a joy and clean and very crazy. She's not that clean, but then you were sub letting the house and it was very clean. I don't know how you do it!? Cause it was really fucking....
Kevin: It was really hard, I put everything in suitcases and I put it down in the basement.
J: Oooooh, that's what happened!!! And that was not just dust girl, it was dildos all over the place!
K: Well, that is still in there. You just didn't find it...
J: Yes, I did. And you have a strap-on that you didn't tell me about!
K: Someone planted that! It's not mine.
J: I was thinking that someone probably cleaned your apartment and not you.
K: No, but people have been planted things.
J: Like a strap-on?
K: Did you really find a strap-on?
J: Yeah, girl. I found the...not the actual strap-on, not the dick that goes in it, or whatever they call the thing going in there, but just the strap. The holsters.
K: Are you serious?
J: Yeah!
Well, this discussion goes on forever, Kevin refusing the knowledge of a strap-on and Julia dead sure she has seen one, and how to actually boil it to sterilize it, if your friend has lent it. So we try to ask some less(?) personal questions.
OA: So how did you hook up, or how could you not hook up?
J: Exactly!
K: We met at my brothers wedding. Yeah. She (Julia) was playing the music at my brothers wedding!
J: And actually I didn't have my saw tonight, I usually play the saw. I think it got lost on the plane...
OA: Did you play together before?
J: Yeah. K: In New York and in Berlin. We recorded a record. They have a record coming up.
J: She produced the record.
K: I just put the microphones up.
J: You lie like a rug!
K: Okay, I wrote the songs.
J: Okay, she didn't write the songs....
OA: Did you have time to practise the songs together?
J: No. It was all made up today! Could you tell? I thought it was obvious Christen, that we didn't have time to practice.
Daniel: It was very natural.
J: And it's like we have been together forever...and in our hearts we really have.
OA: So how much non-improvisation was it?
D: We tried everything out.
J: It was like a set, and the improvisation, then a set again, and then improvisation and then a set and...
OA: So it has to do with trust?
J: Yeah.
D: And no keyboard on that one song.
J: And no saw.
K: I hope it is a recording of it.
J: It was really, really strange! It was a really good show. And I loved the bands that were before! They were fucking crazy! And I loved the two sides of punkdome that happened. I feel like the first three bands represented…or was it four...it was Lushus first, yea?...they represent a totally important part of punk rock.
K: And it was noisy. Our stuff is not noisy.
D: Here is some vocals and some keyboards and that's all we have....
J: And it’s sometimes hard to like stomach…
OA: Have you played Ladyfest before?
K: Actually about 200 Ladyfests. It was a time when the only gig I could get was Ladyfest.
J: And the only gay guy you could get was Dan.
K: Yeah, at Ladyfest tonight. I’ll tell that story after…
OA: But how did you decide that you were going to play together?
K: Like tonight? Well, you guys (J+D) were coming to town, and I was suppose to help to book you more shows...
J: Not suppose to, but we thought…it’s okay!
K: So it is one of the shows we were suppose to do. We were hoping to do a two week tour together in April.
OA: But you played together in the states?
J: Yes, we did. We actually were playing together on November 25th, which is thanksgiving. I know you guys don’t have pioneers, who share their...you guys brought them over and...the turkey...and the small pox...you guys started that! Thank You! Because otherwise we would not have thanksgiving, which is an important and very fun holiday. Which means you get to eat our little buts of, with the turkey. And then we get to play together because it's thanksgiving. Thank your self for being able to go to this show...
OA: But have you been recording any together?
J: Yeah, the record.
K: So I was more like running the computer and they were making the music for the record. Which will be coming out sometimes next year. On some awesome label that we are going to find really soon. OA: Why can't it be Chicks On Speed?
J: Because Chick On Speed....well, you don't even want me to go there!! But…
OA: Okay, we are in a small room with a lot of dicks on the walls..
J: Yeah, we’ve got a lot of cock on the wall, which makes me feel a little bit randy, and a little bit cocky…and him too. He’s a gay! That guy lays some wreckage…
K: I have been on Chicks On Speed for a while and...I think there is some good things about it…
J: They don't love us!
K: Ultimately it's like it's a different zone. I think this is more about music, and they are more about concepts around promoting music.
J: What a load of bullshit!! Imposed that will sound brilliant! It sounded brilliant, but imposed it will be even more genius.
We now get interrupted by a girl saying K+J+D needs to clean the stage, cause they wanna be done to night. Girl leaves and J goes bananas: Seeeeexxxxyyyyy!! And she tells that Dan had a fantasy that he was a lesbian with the Indigo Girls. And that is why Chicks On Speed won't sign them...
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