Excerpts from PI Magazine, September 1997 - Revlon Revolution!
Tom Hughes and Pat Long meet Ian Svenonius.
"It's all very predetermined. First you write your essay, with your
thesis, and then you start your band, and you have to have your name
before you start, so the band grows into the name".
"Gospel music seems the most immediate, the most passionate and bendable
form. We want to revitalize rock'n'roll and make it a communicative thing,
rather than an alienating theme; the rise of dance music seems to be
because rock bands seem to be increasingly dropping the ball in terms of
making their music relevant to anyone but themselves; people listening to
music feel resentment if they are not included because everyone wants to
be able to create because they are implicitly involved in the
relationship."
"The biggest bands always had a fifth member like Brian Epstein for the
Beatles...ours is the audience. Dance culture does away with star status;
we like entertainment and performance, the old rock'n'roll form, but we
want to blur the line until everybody is entertaining each other."
"We hate the US. The ascendancy of Freudian psychology along with the rise
of industrial capitalism occured in America first. Psychology is the tool
of capitalism because it refutes the existance of ideology. You're denied
any education, art and culture is intentionally brainwashing and
stupefying. There are no intellectuals; they've all been shamed and
humiliated or they've sold out. The only expression is through buying,
whether product or drugs - we question strongly people defining themselves
by what they consume."
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