Winterbrief are playing Toronto May 7th at Ted's Wrecking Yard for the WAVELENGTH series. They are also playing some other Canadian dates.(check website link below for more info)
Here they answer some silly questions...
by: natalie dot-dash
1)You have just had a break in and your entire music collection has gone missing. Which 3 are the most painful?
JULIAN: There would be so much more than 3 but I am thinking for sure
1-"Drums and Wires" by XTC (this is so played out it is scratched and very
messed up!)
2-Skull Kontrol called "Deviate by All Means of Capture" (this is being
damaged as we speak as I just recently got it ...)
3-"Making Love" by Atom and His Package and "the Great Escape" by Blur (a tie both albums make me jump!)
JAN: I'm only emotionally attached to vinyl. CD's are too impersonal.
1)Lugworm-"te lo diro" 7inch (i'd be devastated if i lost this because their brief existence produced little more than this glimpse at brilliance)
2)the Fall- "Room to Live" (this was the first Fall album I was obsessed with)
3)Pulp-"everbody's problem/"there was..." (this is, i believe, their second single from 1983, i need this very rare artifact to prove to non-believers the longevity of their brilliance and their influence on Belle and Sebastian)
2)Winterbrief? - do you have an obsession with undergarments?
JAN: I think lots of people have an obsession with undergarments. Why else would there be such a lucrative industry which sells something that usually no one else but the wearer will see? I don't know why, but it always puts me a better frame of mind if I know I'm wearing nifty underwear.
JULIAN: Not in the least bit I even get grossed out by my own
undergarments! :-( Hmmmm ...
3)Guilty pleasure?
JULIAN: This would have to be eating Lay's Sour Cream and Onion chips while listening to Candy-O or Panorama by the Cars or maybe any Duran Duran album. Cheesey is not the word when you start describing the music of the Cars or Duran Duran but I LOVE them anyways .... The spirit of Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon live on in my heart.
JAN: Um, I guess the Pet Shop Boys. I wish I could get the point across to music elitists that just because a band is top 40 doesn't necessarily mean that they have to suck. Every now and then mainstream audiences do get something right. Even their newest album is fantastic, how impressive is that?! Oh, my other guilty pleasure is relationship advice columns. My favorite is "Savage Love". It's what I look forward to most about Wednesdays.
4)Favourite "top 40" 80's song?
JAN:"West End Girls" of course! Oh, and Human League's "Don't You Want Me".
JULIAN: Okay there are a few like "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran or
"Shake it Up" by the Cars ... I am missing some I am sure ....
5)You have never been to Toronto before - in 10 words or less describe what you expect when you come to play here on the 7th?
JAN: I was told there are Chinese shops selling Dutch cheese.
JULIAN: A big city with lots to do but too little time!
6)Why should all the people reading this come to your show?
JAN: Julian might take off his clothes and he has a great ass.
JULIAN: We might just dance and start exposing ourselves after all we do use
drum machines .... It won't be hard sequencing the whole show and putting it
on dat tape! You will never know what to expect at a Winterbrief show we are
moody and dangerous.
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