MOTORMARK Radio Dio, 03 01 06 with Jane, Marko, Raymonde, Dougie and Denis.
This interview is reproduced courtesy of Laetitia and Radio Dio.

Radio Dio : So let’s start with a little introduction of your band. Can you say your names and what you play in the band?
Jane Motoro : Yep, my name is Jane Motoro and I play the bass, the keyboards and I sing in a band from Scotland called Motormark. And we’re here tonight in Saint-Etienne to play in the Club the Elephant.
Mark PoloRoïd : My name’s Marko PoloRoïd. And I’m from the Scottish band Motormark. And I play the guitar and I switch on the drums and I sing a bit as well.

RD : Can you both tell us about your musical background from the first time you picked up an instrument to the release of your second album?
Jane Motoro : When we first started experimenting music together, we were at school. It was really different: I didn’t sing very much, I played the viola.
Marko PoloRoïd: It was a big Velvety thing. We were just into that sort of stuffs when we were at school. It was cool. There were always between five and ten members in the band. I just made a lot of noise on the guitar. Jane played some viola. I thought we were great! That was a good band.

RD : How old were you at the time?
Jane Motoro : We met when we were...
Marko PoloRoïd : like 13 or 14 or maybe 12.

RD : So you toured for Chrome Tape a little more than one year ago, now you’re touring again. Is it an official tour for the coming album?
Marko PoloRoïd : It’s a sort of weird tour ‘cause we’re working on an album right now. But when we first released Chrome Tape, we thought it was gonna be an underground record, that people could pick it up in independent stores, but then it got bigger, there was a bigger demand for the record, the band became popular and a lot of people had missed us on that first tour, so there was a big demand for us to come back and play a lot more shows. And we like doing gigs, meeting the fans. So we stopped making the new record and went back on tour.
Jane Motoro : It’s excellent for us to come and play in small places ‘cause we come back this summer in France and it’s gonna be in big festivals.
Mark Polo Roïd : Festivals are cool but we like meeting people.

RD : There are some new tracks available on myspace, there’s one song called Andy Warhol. You seem to use the internet, myspace, peer to peer a lot. Is that a good way for you to communicate?
Mark PoloRoïd : It’s never been planned with the band. We never said “this is how we’re gonna do it, this is the path we’re gonna take, using the internet is a tool for us as a band”. But people get in touch so easy, “let’s hear some new songs”. Because of the band that we are, we are able to put up demos online and people hear it, I mean why not? We’re not like the White Stripes or something that put some embargo on hearing the album before it comes out. That’s the not the sort of band that we are. We want to grow up in the public eye. We want the people to hear the demos and understand the creative process ‘cause that’s an aspect of the band. Too many bands ignore it. They don’t want to hear the finished product that’s been mixed in some big studios in L.A. They want to hear your 4-track stuffs and want to know what you’re thinking and how you’re feeling, how you come to the track as a conclusion. Putting the songs on myspace was really doing that. I’m gonna change the songs. We’re very much in control of what happens online. We’ve made promises to people that we’re gonna change these tracks every time we record a new demo. It’s gonna sticks on myspace and ultimately, when the new album’s done, there’ll be different versions from the album. We’re just in the fortunate position that people we work with understand that.

RD : So you’re saying it’s tracks from demos, right? Not from the album to come?
Marko PoloRoïd : These are just the demos, like anybody in a band would sit in its bedroom and comes up with some ideas for a songs, programs up the drums and just go punk on it. There’s no reason to stop people hearing that. Let them hear it and understand your process.

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