Friday 6 April 2007

INTERVIEW MOTORMARK!!!

Yes, my dears, I had the pleasure to ask the Lady and the Gentleman from Motormark a few questions. Hope you enjoyed them on March 29: UNDERLONDON 2, at Old School Preoteasa... in our very own Europeaaaaan capital, Bucharest!!!

Coming back with more band interviews!!... For the moment, enjoy their last interview as MOTORMARK!!!



Who killed Motormark… website?
Colonel Mustard, in the Ballroom with the sex toy.

Any special connections with Eastern European countries? Or is just another gig?
Marko: It's Never 'just another gig'. My Family are from Bydgoszc in Poland. If everything I believe is true about Eastern Europe, then we should be looking forward to very big party and a very big hangover.

Any expectations from the Romanian audience?
Expectations are high. When you play your first show in any new country it's always on ones mind that the lyrics may not translate. Motormark songs work anywhere there is an opressed youth needing a voice. Motormark is the global language of Love, Hate, Sex, War.

How important is fashion on the… music scene?
It is the music scene. The music we perform didn't exist until 1977. It started in clothes shops in London. When we were 15 year old kids in Scotland, making our own clothes and starting bands, it helped that the template that ideas and style, are more important that talent and ability, had already been created for us by artists, musicians, filmmakers and performers decades before.

What bands and musicians are worth listening today, in your opinion?
God, that's always the hardest question! We don't really share the same musical tastes, but we have been listening to These New Puritans, Horrors, Gay Against You, Kreeps, Dirty Cakes, Violets, Xerox Teens... it's an endless list...

Electro? Indie? “Post punk neon noise”? Punk with capital K? What is the style you play?
What we think we are is very different to how we are perceived, let's leave the labeling up to you.

Do you like to be placed under a particular style or you want/need the freedom to experiment?
We have very rigid ideas and restrictions about what Motormark can do as 2 people, one drum machine and guitars. We regard it as our art more than our band. New ideas = new band.

Ramones or Sex Pistols?
Adam & The Ants.

What do you consider to be your roots… or, how should I put it, your “musical” parents?
Its obvious. Next question please.

What are your plans? Near or far… future plans?
Bucharest will be our final Motormark show. When we started Motormark, like all supermarket products we had a sell by date. We are about to expire... it's beautifully self destructive.
Our new project is Fake Fang, its sell by date is shorter, but we might be happy to let this one go rancid and cross-contaminate everything else on the shelf.

Looking forward to seeing youuuuuu!!!
Likewise, let's drink a toast to the timely end of our beautifully self destructive band together backstage. x (well, it did not happen... not enough booze in the premises ;))

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