We're proud to introduce a new series here at Scene Point Blank: One Question Interviews. Follow us at facebook and twitter and we'll post one interview every Monday-Thursday. Well, okay, we're still getting in the swing of things and it was Tuesday-Friday last week, but it will be four each week.
In addition, we'll post a belated wrap-up here at the site. Check out our quickie Q&As below with Andrew WK, Jeff Lohrber (Enabler), Dick Lucas (Subhumans, Citizen Fish), and Mike. They all first appeared last week on our social media webs, so be sure to follow us for up-to-the-minute postings.
Andrew WK
SPB: What is your favorite thing about touring Europe or foreign countries?
Andrew WK: My favorite thing about touring Europe and foreign countries is THE PARTYING!
Jeff Lohrber (Enabler)
SPB: How do you choose your t-shirt/merchandise designs?
Lohrber: When we approach t-shirt designs or album artwork, we do our best to make it fit with the overall feel of our music. We are a dark, pissed, aggressive band, but I feel that there is a little more substance behind the music and emotion than your typical angry band. We try to work with artists who do original artwork, and usually try to base the theme of the piece on lyrics to a certain song, or something that captures the overall vibe of the record. We've always wanted designs that are tasteful, but also keep in my "is this something that I would purchase if I wasn't in the band". We've always felt that the art is an extension of the bands sound.
Dick Lucas [Citizen Fish/Subhumans (UK), singer]
SPB: What is the fewest people you've ever played to? Have you returned to that city or venue?
Lucas: Two!
Citizen Fish headed to Duisberg, in Germany, on a soaking wet day in September 93, on a tour with The Gr'ups from Oakland/SF, and arrived at 'Efendi', a Turkish bar with a hot snacks counter and a stage. We set up, discovered there was no PA, so our tour organiser/driver set off and found one. This took an hour, so we ate snack food and had a drink and waited for the hordes to arrive...but they didn't! both bands played short sets to each other and two punters who had made the effort, and it was all so odd it made it a much more memorable gig than hundreds of others where people did turn up! we blamed the lack of posters visible, the rain and whatever day of the week it was [as you do]. We've not been back there, but its not like they were hounding us to do a repeat...
Mike (Pentimento)
SPB: Will the new Arrested Development season meet expectations?
Mike: Life is perception. You are only disappointed if you set yourself up to be by forgetting that there is an art to everything, and within that art is true beauty. Whether it is familiar, or not.
Haha, no I'm kidding. I've never watched that show and I doubt I'd give a fuck about it because it's not Adventure Time.
