New Heavy Interviews 2: Bad For Lazarus, We Rock Like Girls Don’t +  More

Earlier this week, promoter extraordinaire Paul Artrocker treated North London to a whole day of hardcore and heavy rock, in the shape of the New Heavy Sounds All Dayer.

Naturally Artrocker.TV was on hand to harrass the bands as they came offstage, and collect the following 30 second long interviews. Children are advised not to read the Bad For Lazarus interview. Roll tape!

WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON'T

Here we are, it's New Heavy Sounds, you've just played... how did it go?
Brilliant! It was very loud. What did you think?
I thought you guys were great!
Ah good, we enjoyed it...
Kind of a soulful element alongside the brutal thrashing...
Yes there is some of that going on - Jesus, I think I've gone deaf.
Is it important for you guys to have that element of emotional feeling alongside the raw brutality?
Absolutely, I don't see why you can't have both! You shouldn't be too afraid to show vulnerability. While at the same time being brutal! I like both - I don't see why bands should have to be, like, a metal cartoon. I like songs.
You've definitely got songs.
Thankyou!

GODZILLA BLACK

Fairly crazy gig there, you were kind of getting up close to the audience and nuzzling under their chins - is that a fair thing to say?
Absolutely, we want to be close and intimate with our audience. They're very beautiful people, and we respond to that beauty.
Mariachi music and B movies - which of the two has the greater influence on you?
Ahhh... both! Mariachi movies are B movies! Are there any A-list Mariachi movies? Apart from Desperado maybe!

BAD FOR LAZARUS

Pretext: the Artrocker.TV correspondant has shied away from interviewing Bad For Lazarus, claiming that they "look like scary, proper rock stars" and that he is therefore too nervous to approach them in their van, which "looks like the cave from The Lost Boys. Except more van-like."

The correspondant is told off and dragged over to the Bad For Lazarus van, where the band happily oblige to give a quick interview. They step out onto the Holloway Rd, it is 9.15pm...

So as you know by now I was nervous to interview you because you look like scary rock stars. But are you actually scary rock stars? How do you plead?
Rich: Not scary and not rock stars. But don't tell people that - tell them the opposite!
I'll see what I can do... so it was a very anarchistic show that you played back there - what's on your mind when all that chaos is going on?
Jimmy: Masturbation, really. What I'm doing right now. (unveils manhood and begins stroking it)
Rich: Christ Jim!
Do you have er... anything to add?
Rich: (laughs) I think he said it best.