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INTERVIEWS

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Ben and Pete
Sonpsilo Circus
13/09/2011

Who are you ?

We are all soldiers in the army of life. Like you. Like me.  We all love Yahweh, guns and lesbians making out. PRAISE THE LAAAWD!


Give us a quick brief rundown of who you are musically and what you try and do differently.

When we started out it was like a vintage cheese, vaudevillian jam band and now, well we’re not to sure?  Maybe what we do differently now is not consciously intend to do anything differently, but completely conform to whatever it is that comes out of us. You know, real sensitive like…


Who would be some key influences are that people wouldn’t expect?

Charles Baudelaire, Schubert, Boys next door, Tobacco, Ravi Shankar, Siouxie and the banshees, The Funk Brothers and Booker T and the Mg’s ahhh heaps hey. Lots of Films and literature and paintings influence the sound more than some musical ensembles sometimes.


In “Almost Famous” honour, “do you have to be sad to write a sad song, do you have to be in love to write a love song?”

Well you don’t HAVE to, but it helps.


What is your opinion on the current music scene in Perth?

It’s alive and thriving! We like it a lot! Keep doing it Bands in Perth, we’ll get a Hollywood sign here some day! It’s amazing that there is such a concentrated collection of musicians in this little bubble that are all dedicated to just music or whatever it is they feel they should be doing.  And doing it well!


If you had to put together your dream gig with any 5 bands from history + 5 local bands who would they be?

this is an intense question!  

7pm Richie Havens!! Frreeedomm!

7:50pm 10 Mountains (local)

8:50pm Skip James vs Robert Johnson

9:30pm Frozen Ocean (local)

10:20pm Grinderman

11:10pm  Dust {the Vronsky’s} (local)

11:25pm! Tupac with Wu-tang clan and the roots as backup band

12:10am Mink Mussel Creek (local)

1am- James Brown featuring The White stripes and Mahuvishnu Orchestra

1:30- Band of Gypsies (till sunrise)

* Line-up subject to change   


What is the most annoying/difficult question to be asked in an interview?

It’s annoying when you write answers for a local press interview, answering honestly and openly, and all your local magazine can do is give you a biased print based on all the bad points of your answers attempting to outline some sort of questionable ideal of the band and its workings.  We like to read music press, not Woman’s Weekly!

Difficult questions are ones that you have too many answers for, and annoying questions are the ones that there’s only one answer for,

 

What are your plans for the next 6 - 12 months

Going to record our album and travel and take it all over! Western Australia, rest of Australia, then the world, we’d like to launch the album on the moon or Mars, just waiting for NASA really..

Sonpsilo's EP is available instore but they're selling like hotcakes so get yours soon!

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