Can you remember what you
were doing with your life before SMSB?
"Yes, much the same really, cos SMSB isnt really my
life if you know what I mean. Its just like a hobby for
me, because I love music and I am a creative person. So
like one person will pour themselves a coffee, light a
cigarette and paint a picture, I will drink buckfast and
then make some musick."You
sometimes go very far with your mix of grindcore and
techno. Do you really think keeping it up bonding the two
together in the future? Any negative response because of
your special sound?
"Honestly Pierre I havent taken it as far as I want
to yet, but yeah, I think that because I am using a
sequencer to record my music then it will always have a
cold, hard, techno-ish feel to it. I am so heavily into
the hard, fast end of techno music as well. I just love
it. I havent heard much negative responses to SMSB in
particular, although I understand a lot of purists hate
the style in general. Please remember this though,
there's a big difference between what I'm doing and what
a dull death metal band suffering a mid-life crisis is
doing when they decide to 'go cyber' or whatever. I know
you compared my stuff to Libido Airbag Pierre, and that's
okay because they're very experimental too. More
experimental than SMSB in fact. But I think my number one
influence and reference point is an old GBN promo tape.
That just totally blew me away."
You
experienced both being a one-piece "band" and..
huh; a band with more members. Is it easier to be alone
to do everything or not really?
"For me its better to be alone because I have a lot
of off-the-wall ideas and if you hear any SMSB stuff from
before you will see that it is very conservative and
traditional in comparison to nowadays. I can also say,
however, that there is nothing better (well not much
anyway!!) than jamming with your mates
in a rehearsal studio. The thing is, I have always been
the sort of person to stay up til the small hours working
on music, trying out different ideas and stuff, so to
have total creative control is great."
Are
your vocals meaningless barks or do you sometimes write
lyrics? Is each song title a reference to something or
means something to you, becausesome of it sounded pretty
obscure to me...
"Ha ha yeah, a lot of it is just pure shit off the
top of my head. But I can say there are proper lyrics to
a few songs, and you can usually hear them if that's the
case. Its good that people read the titles and don't
always understand it, cos I have been trying to do
something weird and individual with them. I can say that
I was inspired by the Japanese scene of the mid 90s. My
song "Cryptosexual Ungan" was originally called
"Cryptosexual Ungan Neophallic Torsion" as like
a tribute to bands like CSSO and CUM, in fact."
The
compiling CD you sent me works like a fucking solid album.
Can people get ahold of it from you?
"Not at the moment. I really don't have the time or
money to be answering letters and sending packages
everywhere but if anyone would be interested in
distributing it for me please do get in touch. Anyway, I
try and put as much mp3s on my site as I can so people
can get the stuff for free anyway. But I do know you can
get quite a lot of those tracks on the split tape with
DH, which Kyle is selling for $3(US)/$4(world)"
(DH
Site: http://listen.to/d-h)
What
can people expect from your zine, Needledamage? When do
you feel it's gonna be ready?
"This is a sore point for me because I have been
disappointed by the number of replies I got to my
interviews. I don't know if people have changed their
address or what. Anyway I cant say for certain whether or
not Needledamage will ever come out but I can tell you if
it does it will be something different from the usual. It
will have NO serious interviews and even then, only about
30-40% of it will be interviews. I want to do a lot of
writing myself, articles and stuff. I have a lot of
original ideas which I hope one day to actualise."
Is
SMSB time-consuming. & What else do you to pass the
time?
"I think in January of this year it took up most of
my spare time because I was writing and recording like
hell but since then, not really. My other interests. well
really Im just a quite normal person. I really love great
films and many different kinds of music. I love going
out, getting drunk, watching football. loads of different
stuff."
I'm
a veggie and my fave movie is Cannibal Holocaust. Do you
think the two can mesh or should I drop one of them?
"Ha ha well I think a lot of veggies would freak if
they had to sit through that one but hey the way I see it
is. CH was made many years ago, what happened happened,
and watching it today is hardly causing animals to suffer.
That's not to say I condone killing animals in the name
of entertainment, because I don't, but personally, there
have been other films which left a far worse taste in my
mouth."
I'm
fucking sorry I'm already out of dull questions! It's
such a loser questionnaire. But... the shorter the better.
I thought you could maybe interview yourself, but that
would be dumb as hell...... so finish as you wish....
"Okay Pierre, just thanks a lot for this int and for
your great SMSB review, that meant a lot to me, mate! If
anyone out there wants to work with me on a split tape
with SMSB just get in touch cos I am nearly always
interested in that. Other than that, everybody just chill
out with a beer and an old ENT record and we can all be
happy."
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