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Interview with Dave, Jay
& Tom of australian Grind band Fuck...
I'm Dead (July 2001)
So,
the band is quite new. Any reason why you started
it? Were you involved in other band or
underground activity before "Fuck... I'm
Dead"?
Fuck...I'm Dead is quite new. All up we have been
together about 1 year. All of us had been playing
in other bands before we formed Fuck...I'm Dead,
bands like Arseripper, Open Wound and The Kill.
There was no real special reason or anything why
we started Fuck...I'm Dead... we were excited by
the possibilities presented by using a drum
machine, and wanted to be brutal as fuk, and
thats about it... So thats how Fuck...I'm Dead
came into existence.
How's
Fuck... I'm Dead on stage? Do you use a drum
machine for live performances too? Were there a
good audience for the shows you performed so far?
We do use the drum machine live. It took a bit of
getting used to, and we have encountered some
problems along the way. But now it all works
quite well. A lot of bands which use drum
machines don't seem to play live or they use a
drummer, so we were determined to make it work.
As far as audiences go, we have had pretty good
crowds at all our shows so far. There isn't much
of a grind scene here in Melbourne, so there is
often a bit of a gap between shows. But over all
it has gone down really well...
The
Split w/ Sanity's Dawn is brilliant. Now, the
next release will be something full-length? How
do you hope it will be like? (How many tracks?
etc...) Will you keep it the way it is on the Ep?
Rather short songs, fast as hell?
We are pretty happy to have been able to do a
split with Sanitys Dawn, they are one of the best
gore/grind bands around at the moment. The songs
for the Full CD are definately similar to the
ones on the split, but have a bit more of a metal
influence. There is a few really news ones
though, which we think are heaps better, but
still short, and fast as hell . We are hopefully
going to have around 15 songs on the CD, so it
might be more like a MCD, we'll see how we go. We
might have a few more written by the time we
record. There will be one or two older songs from
the demo which we will record for the CD too.
Can
you introduce everyone in the band? Hobbies,
musical tastes, movie tastes, personality traits,
distinguishing marks, drug-addictions, scars,
tatoos, or whatever, stuff like that.......
The band consists of 2 short hairs amd one long
hair. Tom (the only long hair) plays bass, is
addicted to snatch, cleans a pub, and has a
severe pooh fetish. Jay (short hair number 1)
does the vocals, wears wife beaters(blue singlets),
has some tough tattoos, and also addicted to
turds. Dave(the other short hair) plays guitar,
programs the drum machine, and rarely leaves this
computer, because he's always on the prowl for
shit porn(the drum machine is the only member not
addicted to pooh)
I
think the band name Fuck...I"m Dead is
hilarious; or at least it makes me laugh. Is
there a story behind it, or anyway... who came up
with it?
There is no real story behind the name, I think I
(dave) came up with it literally out of nowhere...
we thought it was funny and suited the music we
where playing so thats about it... pretty boring
story...
Do
you write lyrics?
Well...ummmm. Jay makes up the vocals... (whether
there is words in there is another story). The
song has a title well before the actual lyrics
are made though. Usually over time the words/lyrics
evolve, and start to relate to the title of the
song. There is never anything written down or
anything like that. We might try real hard and
make up some lyrics for the songs so we can
include them in the CD/MCD... maybe
Now
about No Escape Records. I know it's also a
distro, but is it basicly just a label to release
Fuck...I'm Dead records or do you think putting
out other bands stuff?
No Escape is still a fairly new label... and so
far the Fuck...I'm Dead stuff is the only stuff
that has been released. I am definately into
releasing bands other than FID. There is actually
something, (a split7" in fact) in the works,
besides the Fuck...I'm dead CD/MCD, that will
probably be out later in the year. At the moment,
it is a secret.
Is
it expensive to start and maintain a band and a
label?
We already had most of the equipment (except for
the drum machines), to start Fuck..I'm Dead. so
that was good. We put all the money we make back
into the band and even though it isn't a lot it
pretty much pays for it most of the stuff we need
like sending off shite, recording, new drum
machine etc... The label on the other hand costs
more to run, and to release stuff, but its heaps
of fun and if you love grind its worth it!
Do
you think Grind is getting as trendy as most
other metal styles?
Its definately getting more popular recently but
is still not trendy at this stage....yet,
otherwise we would have more groupies.
Do
you read zines or webzines? Do you think zines
are important to the scene?
I read more webzines than zines.They are
extremely inportant...anything which promotes the
underground, and makes people aware of bands they
might not have heard etc is crucial to keeping
this kind of music alive.
What's
your current playlist? Favourite bands?
Collectively as a band currently we are listening
to stuff like: Contrastic, Impaled, Angel Corpse,
Cock and Ball Torture, Sanitys Dawn, Discordance
Axis, Disgorge, Human Remains, Sublime Cadaveric
Decomposition, CUM, Slough, KLF, Engorged,
Hemdale, Ingrowing, Get up Kids, Judas Priest,
Cerebral Turbulencey, AC/DC
That's
it. Thanks to Fuck... I'm Dead for going through
all those dull questions... 2 times!
 Fuck...I'm
Dead Website
No
Escape Records Website
Fuck... I'm Dead
E-mail
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