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- [ Pleasurehouse Interview ] [ By The Chief ]
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- Pleasurehouse Interview 23-Apr-93
-
- Pleasurehouse played live at a local place here in Linkoping, and of course,
- yours truly was there to record and interview this 'new' Swedish indie band.
- Most of the questions were answered by the drummer, as he was the one who
- talked the most (and told enough jokes to keep everyone else in hysteria. :))
-
- [S] = singer, [D] = drummer, [B] = bass player, [G1] & [G2] = guitar players.
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- ME: GREAT CONCERT GUYS!
-
- S: It was okay.
-
- ME: IS IT OKAY IF I DO AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BAND FOR A ZINE I'M WRITING FOR?
-
- S: Yeah, grab your stuff and come up to our room. It's just up those stairs.
- We have to sit down, and have a few beers. (smile)
-
- ME: OKAY, I'LL BE THERE IN A FEW MINUTES THEN.
-
- S: Yeah.
-
- [Well up in their room, I found everyone sitting around a big table,
- plus a few other people, who introduced themselves later as friends
- to the members of the band. Everyone was drinking beer, except the
- bass player, who explained he was the driver for the night.]
-
- ME: HOW LONG HAS PLEASUREHOUSE BEEN PLAYING?
-
- D: Since 1986... (laughter). Back then we had a different line-up though.
-
- S: We started 1986, but it was only last year we were signed with West Side.
- The CD you got there [Marseille] is our first release really, but the
- songs on it are really old for us now.
-
- D: We had a different guitar player then. He played with another band at
- the same time, and sometimes he didn't show up at rehearsals, so now we
- have this new one from Småland (pointing at a guy in a sofa who nods).
-
- G2: I played with My Favorite Martians before. Bass though. You heard of
- them? We only released one single.
-
- S: He didn't play on 'Marseille'.. only joined a couple of months ago. You
- like the tracks on the CD?
-
- ME: SURE DO! I ONLY BOUGHT IT A MONTH AGO, BUT I THINK THE SONGS ARE GREAT.
- I WOULDN'T BE HERE IF I DIDN'T. (smile)
-
- S: Haha, that's true. Well, we're sick to the teeth with those songs.
- We've played some of them since 1986, like 'This is how it feels'
- and 'Happy when you leave', and you know, it's really boring to play
- the same songs over and over again.. I mean, 1986!
-
- D: Yeah, but 'Blind' was okay tonight, don't you think? I think so..
- Felt great to play that one (drums on his knees), and they (referring
- to the audience) were with us on it, dancing and all..
-
- S: Yes, that one did okay. It's good to hear that you like the CD though.
- It was to be released last october, but the company [West Side] decided
- to wait until march this year. We got a good review in Aftonbladet..
- [a Swedish evening-paper] Three 'plus'.. not bad at all really.
-
- ME: A COUPLE OF NEW SONGS TONIGHT... ANY CHANCE WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME
- NEW SINGLES OR PERHAPS EVEN A NEW ALBUM SOON?
-
- S: Nine songs. Four from Marseille, 'Breathe', 'Summer', 'Blind' and
- 'This is how it feels'. Then we played 'Cindy', written by our new
- member [the guitar player] which will be out on flexi with the next
- issue of Sound Affects together with a song from Easy [another band].
- We also played 'Candyfloss', 'Vals', 'September' and 'Six Eyes'.
- 'Six Eyes' wasn't really written today [they said it was, to the
- audience during the concert] (laughter), but we did write it this
- week.
-
- ME: HOW ABOUT THE LYRICS? ARE THEY WRITTEN TO SOMEONE SPECIAL OR...?
-
- S: They're written like to a friend. Some of the songs are really
- for someone I know. But I really want people to have their
- own thoughts about what the lyrics are about. I think that goes
- for all lyrics.. I wouldn't for example go and ask another singer
- what the lyrics are about.. I have my own picture, you know?
-
- ME: SO THE NEXT THING IS THE FLEXI WITH SOUND AFFECTS? NO SINGLES?
-
- S: No. We have a lot of songs though..
-
- D: West Side is like this. You sign with them, they release your first
- album, and then they try to sell you to a bigger label. He (the owner)
- sits in his house up in Skellefteå and is having fun. Sort of like he's
- just doing all of this as a hobby. He puts a lot of pressure on the
- bigger labels though, to sign bands from West Side.
-
- ME: YOU SAID YOUR NEW GUITAR PLAYER WROTE 'CINDY'? YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO
- WRITES SONGS AND LYRICS FOR PLEASUREHOUSE THEN?
-
- S: No no. He's writing a lot of our new material. He really did bring a
- lot of new ideas to the group.
-
- D: Yeah. Before, we played and then went home. After he joined, we're
- a lot closer, and spend a lot of time together (the whole band) outside
- the studio. More like a group now, if you know what I mean.
-
- ME: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT 'HERRGÅR'N'? [THE PLACE THEY PLAYED AT]
-
- S: Small scene. [everyone agrees]
-
- G1: Did you feel it swaying? I felt it A LOT. It was like, wow.. if I'd
- leaned a bit more forward, I bet it would've gone over. (laughter)
-
- D: I heard my drums all around me! I couldn't...
-
- S: And the first time he told us about that, was when we had two songs left
- to play!
-
- D: Yeah but.. [the other members laugh] ...they fixed it then at least.
-
- G1: You heard my effects-box? It died several times, so I had to kick it
- to get it to work again! I felt kind of funny, standing there and
- kicking the box all the time. But no-one seemed to have heard the
- difference..
-
- ME: I DIDN'T. [everyone laughs]
-
- G1: Well.. It sounded fine when it worked..
-
- ME: HOW ABOUT SOME REGULAR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS? HOW OLD ARE YOU?
-
- S: 24..
-
- G2: He's 32! (pointing at the drummer laughing)
-
- D: See! He's writing that down! I won't say.. [everyone laughs]
-
- ME: OKAY.. FAVORITE BANDS (INSPIRATIONS)?
-
- S: Moose, My Bloody Valentine... Suede's latest single is good. I also
- recommend Dinosaur Jr's 'Bug'. Lately, I've been listening to The
- Auteurs though. It grows on you.
-
- D: Boo Radleys, Sonic Youth...
-
- G2: Soundgarden
-
- ME: HOW ABOUT SLOWDIVE OR CURVE?
-
- S: uh.. no. They're too slow, if you know what I mean.
-
- D: Definitely no.
-
- S: And the whole Grunge-wave really sucks.
-
- G1: I like Alice In Chains.
-
- S: What's that? (laughter)
-
- ME: SWEDISH BANDS? MINDSCAPE, SUREDO, A SHRINE?
-
- S: Don't say Mindscape..
-
- D: We don't like them.
-
- S: No. They had one good song.. their hit. Suredo, yeah, they're great.
- Weren't we supposed to play with them at Skylten [local place] ?
-
- D: Yeah, but the guy who owns that place don't want local, or 'small'
- bands to play there anymore. He's more into known bands now, like
- Thåström and so on.. It's really sick because that place was made
- for like, unknown bands, you know.
-
- S: So the last thing we heard was that they didn't have any date for
- our gig, and they just let it go. Sad though.. Would've been fun
- to play with 'em. A Shrine, yeah, they're also good. Also on the
- West Side label.
-
- ME: WHERE ARE YOU PLAYING LIVE NEXT?
-
- S: We were to play in Norrköping together with Blue (another Indie band)
- from Örebro, but we haven't heard anything about it for a while now.
- We're playing in Örebro though, in may, and then in Skellefteå.
-
- D: Yeah, see, we have this deal, like, Blue's coming to Norrköping to
- play, and we're going to Örebro to play. Like a switch...
-
- ME: YOU'RE ALL FROM NORRKÖPING THEN?
-
- S: Yeah... well, not our new guitar player, who, like I said is from
- Småland.
-
- ME: OKAY.. NEXT GENERIC QUESTION: FAVORITE DRINK?
-
- S: Carlsberg. [everyone agrees]
-
- D: ..and Gin/Tonic!
-
- ME: GROUPIES? HOW ABOUT THAT?
-
- S: (laugh)
-
- D: You wish! (laugh)
-
- ME: OH YEAH, YOU HAD ONE SONG ON THE LATEST WEST SIDE COMPILATION..
-
- S: Yeah. They called us one day, said that we had ten hours to do a
- song for the compilation if we wanted to be on it. So we did
- 'You will never know', and the week after that, the compilation
- was out.
-
- ME: HAVE YOU RELEASED ANYTHING ELSE, EXCEPT FROM MARSEILLE?
-
- S: Well, we've been on two compilations from West Side, and then it's
- that flexi with Sound Affects. That's all.
-
- D: If you don't count the demo tapes.. (smile)
-
- S: Haha, we won't give out those though. We sound like.. [he says the
- name of a group, which unfortunately, I can't remember. Sorry.].
- We didn't sound at all like we do today. You wouldn't like them
- if you like how we sound today.
-
- ME: ANYTHING FUNNY HAPPEN TO YOU WHEN PLAYING LIVE?
-
- D: Why don't you tell him about our release-party?
-
- S: Okay.. we had this release party, for Marseille, and there were a
- lot of people at this place, and of course, we wanted to do our
- best. So we go up on stage, and starts to play. And it sounds
- TERRIBLE! Everything was wrong. The sound came from all directions,
- and no-one could hear what they played or sang. Later, we found
- out that they had a 17-year-old sound technician, who just started
- to work there.
-
- D: He was just practicing there!
-
- S: He must've been! It was a disaster! [laughter]
-
- [at this point, most of the members of the band had gone downstairs
- to the party to mingle, and someone who worked at that place came to tell
- us that they wanted us to leave, because it was really a room for the
- employees, the rest of us decided to join the others downstairs.]
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-
- I talked a lot to the singer and the drummer, and asked them about
- the lyrics and more about other bands they liked during the rest of
- the night, but I guess we all had a bit too much to drink at that
- point (Gin/Tonics for the drummer :-)), and I just don't remember
- everything they said too well. Better to leave it out, than to
- perhaps, write stuff they didn't say. :)
-
- When the drink-bar closed, and there were no more Gin/Tonics available,
- they decided to leave. Their instruments and gear was carried out to
- their van. After I got my copy of Marseille signed by the members and
- we had found one of the guitar players again (we lost him a couple
- of hours earlier <grin>), and after the band told the management of the
- place that they didn't like to be thrown out from the room they were
- supposed to be able to use, they drove off in their van.
-
- ------
- To order a subscriptions to the Sound Affects magazine - call +46-11100053.
- (you get a free CD with your subscription. Either PLEASUREHOUSE - Marseille,
- or one of the West Side compilations (they've released four so far)).
-
- PLEASUREHOUSE - Marseille. West Side Fabrication 1993 WeCD 042.
- Breathe, Summer, Blind, Happy When You Leave, Regrets, This Is How It Feels.
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