RD : Is there a scheduled date for the album?
Jane Motoro : Not yet ‘cause we’re on tour. But when we go back to London we’re gonna start recording the album. Next week, we’re in the UK and there’s a lot of gigs. It starts tomorrow in fact in Newcastle. Then we’re gonna go in the studio. We don’t really know how long it’s gonna take. It could be very fast, some tracks may be longer to record. So there isn’t exactly a deadline for us which is great position to be in ‘cause ....

RD: It’s more spontaneous then.
Marko Polo RoÏd : Exactly, when we started recording Chrome Tape when DHR (NDLR: Digital Hardcore recordings) wanted to make a record with us, we told them about our plans, how we wanted to record, that we wanted to do it very fast and very live, we had 15 or 16 songs and wanted to record them all, record them ten times each and choose the best version. We wanted to do it fast, in a week. We didn’t want to spend three months in a studio trying to get the best snare drums sound, working with brilliant amps, we just wanted to set up our gears in the studio, which in the end would set up in a factory, we brought a desk in and set up some microphones and made it like that. This time just because of the touring commitment that we have, we have to do it in sections. It’s weird for us, it’s gonna be a different record to make.

RD : Do you feel involved in different forms of art? I mean there’s one song called Andy Warhol?
Marko PoloRoïd : The Warhol song is just about corporate art really. Some businessmen just want to look contemporary and pay some corporate artists £1 million to give a big wire elephant inside their offices. This is really about that. Art is not at the end of a telephone. It’s in the people’s minds and in their hearts.
Jane Motoro : In Motormark, there’s only two people in the band at the moment. But for us, it’s a bigger picture which involves other artists, creative people like Dougie here who’s designed the T-shirts for us and he has come with us and can actually give them to the people at the shows. Or a guy called Liam who’s the artist who has designed Chrome Tape. He’s working on our new stuffs right now.
Marko Polo Roïd : Yeah he made the videos. I don’t want to use the term “collective” but Motormark is more than just two people standing on a stage. Whenever we can we try to involve people. It would be insane to work without Dougie . He has designed the two t-shirts and it would be insane then if he doesn’t come on tour. He has to come, meet the people and talk about the designs. It’s important that he comes and tells people about his work. He runs his own business as well. It’s a good platform for him.

RD : Do you feel involved in a Glasgow scene?
Jane Motoro : We kind of.... come from more like... a European scene. For me, I’m from Scotland but I feel really at home in a city in France where I can sit with people like you and you have the same mentality, I mean you’re making radio shows, you put on bands.
Marko Polo Roïd : Scenes are fictitious. Scenes don’t exist. Scenes are just where you want them to be. If a Glasgow scene means living in Glasgow and seeing Glasgow bands, then yeah we’re involved in that.

RD : When you start playing show, you usually support local bands, and feel a particular connection with them ‘cause you’ve shared something. That’s what I meant by “ Glasgow scene”.
Jane Motoro : Oh yes, there are some excellent bands, especially electronic bands. Obviously Bis had a huge influence on us.
Marko Polo Roïd : Like Pro Forma
Jane Motoro : But there are new bands coming through like Pro Forma, THE MAGIFICENTS, Flying Matchstick Men, with girls on keyboards, any bands can have girls on keyboards!

RD : Yes I saw them a long time ago!
Marko PoloRoïd : Yes that’s a cool band and they do good shows. Greg is a good guy.

RD : If you have a closer look at your lyrics “eat sleep and drink pills”, “I’m about to do something I’m gonna regret”, we feel a sort of urge to commit suicide, is this recurrent theme the resulting situation of living in a post industrial town in the 21 st century?
Marko PoloRoïd : Yes, “I’m about to do something I’m gonna regret” It’s clearly a song about committing suicide.
Jane Motoro : It’s a sort of catharsis. You can talk about exactly how you’re feeling. And everybody can identify with the same kind of things.
Marko PoloRoïd : In this time, on this planet, with the problems that exist, everybody can feel the same emotions.
Jane Motoro: I think people can identify with because it’s and underlying current for everyone at the moment. The world’s instable, everybody’s got these feelings and the band is a great catharsis we can talk about what we’re thinking. I think everybody can identify with it and it’s particularly political, it’s just a personal opinion people can share.


RD : And do you feel this in your performances?
Marko PoloRoid : Absolutely, every night ! The day you don’t is the day you should stop.


RD : Do you feel a difference in the audience?
Marko PoloRoïd : Yeah, I mean the audience is getting bigger but I think that’s the same people that are supporting our music. They were always there.
Jane Motoro : It’s a huge crossed section of people, of all ages. They can either identify with the music that they recognise
Marko PoloRoïd : Some may like the drums, others like the keyboards or the noisy guitars. For us, that’s enough, they can come to the show.
Jane Motoro : Some like the punk elements of it, some like the electronic side of it, some like the lyrics, some like the performances. There’s so many different aspects in what we do, it’s a sort of huge, broad spectrum of people that are interested in it. It’s great.


RD: What are the most striking bands you played with and the most striking places you’ve played at?
Marko PoloRoïd : We played with Adult in Brussels, we played In Glasgow as well. They are a good band. I like their new stuff, I like the way that it’s moved.


RD: Was it at The Botanic festival?
Marko Polo Roïd : No we played at the Recyclart in Brussels and in Glasgow it was in the ABC2....We’re thinking for the future a lot to be their support band.
Jane Motoro : We played with Le Tigre in the UK which I really liked ‘cause I’m a huge fan of the band. We didn’t just see them play. To play with them was just great. I thought they were excellent!
Marko Polo Roïd : We did some festivals shows last year. We got to play with Sonic Youth and the White Stripes, it’s amazing you know. Sonic Youth comes to play some shows in Spain and you are on the same bill as them!

RD : Did you manage to start any kind of relationship with them?
Marko PoloRoïd : Absolutely. I’m not jaded. I’m just a human and like anyone else. There’s bands I’m a fan of and it’s the same for everybody but I’d be an idiot to be standing at the side of the stage beside Thurston Moore and not go over and say “yeah I like your band”, I’d regret that. But it’s like many different things, last week, we were in Spain and we met Pierre Saville the artist. Again you’d be nuts to have these people just right beside you and not tell them that you’re in a band and that you’re a great fan of their works.


RD: I’ve got a question for you Jane, where did you buy your tutu?
Jane Motoro : Well... I have some really nice clothes that people make for me.

RD : You mean designers?
Jane Motoro : No, just creative people and the tutu was made especially for me, it’s really nice, isn’t it? I didn’t plan to wear a tutu on stage but somebody made it for me and said I made it for you so I tried it on and it looked cool.
Marko PoloRoïd : It’s a really nice thing to wear the tutu and the biker jacket. They both reflects Jane’s personality.

RD: A punk ballerina?
Marko PoloRoïd : Yeah, there’s something quite aggressive and gentle about the whole thing.
It just felt great when we tried that.

RD : Any plans for the coming months?
Marko PoloRoïd : A lot of shows, this year it looks like it, the new record. We filmed some stuffs as well and we filmed a new video for a track that will be on the record, if we have the chance we’ll put it on myspace , that will be good. We just sort some artwork that Liam had done. He’s just done that today so we are really excited about going back to London so that we can make a team around that, think about the concept.
Jane Motoro : Yeah, we’re coming back to France to play the Marmande rock festival at the end of April I think. That’s the first festival in the summer.
I’m quite excited ‘cause it’s my birthday as well! So, I’m gonna spend my birthday in France and have a good time at the show.

RD : And party !!
Both : Yeah!
Mark PoloRoïd : It’s a very busy year, so much talk about going to America. Some people still want to hear and buy the Chrome Tape record and we’re already working on the next one, it just feels like the best that could be our band. It looks like a good year!

RD : Anything else to add?
Marko Polo Roïd : Oh... I don’t want to add. Well... I’m just overwhelmed by people supporting our band. You make a band, you record some songs, we made a single ourselves. When you do that, you think maybe you’re doing this just for yourself and that nobody’s gonna be interested in it. It’s not even about the money, you don’t even care if you’re gonna sell them, you do it because all the bands you’ve grown up with did it, and you loved their records, and then you want to do it yourself, and then you do a show, and some people come and you never know if you’re gonna do another show. To be here in France, when you’re from places from Scotland, to play show and see 100 people come, I’m never gonna pretend: it’s overwhelming.