Bib/Oa:So they get to choose what they want the single to be
Andrea: Yes, but it's ok we're very happy with the record as a whole, so they can just pick any song, we'll be happy whatever they want to use. And this accidental song is really funny because usually it takes me a while to write lyrics. It is not something I do overnight, I have to get feelings for a song, I don't know. It's a sort of a process, so it was like 'oh my god, we just wrote a song and we have to find lyrics and we have to record it really quick.' So they recorded some songs they had written in the studio. And a lot of times at practice, if someone has a part or something, he/she just comes and plays the part and record it so that we can use it later when we're writing songs. We just pick stuff, because it might work there or there. So Nathan recorded a part that he had and he just asked Nick and Dereck to play a beat, you know just to keep rhythm to it, they didn't count it out, they didn't do anything. They gave that to me on a tape that had the new songs on, so I went home, and basically that was the only one I wrote to and I came back the next day and asked if they wanted to hear the song.... They said 'well, it wasn't a song, it was just Nathan's guitar part.' I replied 'well, it was a song now, do you wanna hear it?' And they liked it so.... And it is really funny that was the one the label chose, and not something we had worked on a long time. It doesn't sound like the other songs, so maybe that's why they picked it out.



Bib/Oa: Any burning news from Seattle?
Andrea: Well, have you heard the last Gossip album, Movement (KillRockStars)?

Bib/Oa: No, sorry, we haven't had the chance yet.
Andrea: it's so good, you have to get a copy of that. I do not know whether they're coming over here anytime soon, but I hope they will. They are one of my very favourite bands right now. Beth, the vocalist is totally amazing. And I just reading in a music paper in London about the last time they played there and... and do not know whether you've seen them before, but Beth is a bigger girl, and I guess somebody in the British press made some comment about her weight and so she flipped out and when they played all she did was just talk shit on the enemy... She took off her pants and her underwear and just walked down in the crow and was like 'anybody has a problem with my weight can come and eat my pussy.' She rules, I love her!!!

Bib/Oa: Have you ever been hurt by comments in the press reducing you to your gender?
Andrea: There was something once in Rolling Stones because we had played at this South by Southwest festival and they were covering it. They said something about me, something like 'lumpish cutie Andrea Zollo....' A lot of people were happy that we got to be talked about in Rolling Stones, but all my girl friends were like 'what the fuck, if you're a man, they're not gonna take about your weight, like they wouldn't say anything about your body.' They didn't mean it in a derogatory way, but you know, they still say it. And people occasionally comment about my weight occasionally too, which is so insane because if I was a man, nothing would be said, because it has nothing to with music.

Bib/Oa: And it's not like we read about Franck Black or whoever is a bit heavier than the 'expected' standards, putting on weight or going lighter every time they release an album.
Andrea: exactly, this is so stupid. But let's see about news from Seattle... Well, it's this festival that has been going on for 2 years now. It's called the Capitol Hill Block party an it's a lot of fun. Especially since it's not that many festivals in the States, or else, they only play one kind of music and then it looks more like a moving mall that a festival really. There are also more All-Ages club, a couple of clubs are starting to do mixed shows, with a bar an all-ages, which is a huge improvement for Seattle.

Bib/Oa: Is this more common in other cities in the States?
Andrea: Yes. Seattle went through a weird period with all-ages show. They passed this law called the Teen Dance Hall Ordinance which made it really hard to have all ages shows. It wasn't written in a way that said 'no all ages shows', but basically it said that it was illegal for anybody who was under age to e in a club with anybody who was over that age. So basically you couldn't have all-ages shows unless people were 18 or under. It was supposed to curb teen drinking, they thought that keeping kids away from anyone older than 18 would stop them from drinking. Totally fucked. It ended up hurting all ages music scene for years, in spite of the actions of tons of bands trying to repeal this for years, and they finally got a reverse last year.

Bib/Oa: It' a bit heavy on the band, though, having to play two shows a day.
Andrea: Yeah, we still have to play one all-ages and one bar-show, but it's ok really.

Bib/Oa: and at least the kids get to hear some music... or else the only alternative is to watch MTV, which is not for the best.
Andrea: Very sad indeed.