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KEVIN FROM PRE TALKS TO JEREMY CHICK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF SUBBA-CULTCHA
Born in a basement, based in London, the first outing of PRE had the entire audience locked outside, watching through barred windows from above. To the assemblage up top, it was clear that these five noise sprinkled nu-wavers had already figured it out - sound moves quicker in high pressure. In the months that followed, PRE's rhythmically infectious skip-alongs were demonstrated on a flurry of releases. The band's debut 7" EP "Treasure Trails" caught ears by surprise and wouldn't let go. A rash of vinyl came in quick succession, pairing the band up with acts like AIDS Wolf, Dmonstrations, Bardo Pond, and Comanechi. And now, weighing 14 songs and coming in just over 20 minutes tall, "Epic Fits" will be born on September 18th. Recorded in a chilly pizza storage unit with Westminster Brown at the controls, PRE's full length is cold sweat caught on two inch tape. Those initial moonbeams shining through the barred basement windows have been caught - meticulously sliced and diced - and reflected back in a brilliant, buoyant strobelight. Guitar, bass, bass, drum and moon shriek: PRE make the noise jump.
How did the recording sessions for your new release go? Cold. Hot. Cold. Really Cold. BOLING HOT. Westminster Brown has fur-like warmth, WB was at the controls and punched the crap out of the tape machine. It was all quick.
What goals did you set yourself before you started recording? 18 songs in two days. We achieved.
What do you feel are your own limitations when it comes to creating/writing music? There are no limitations, just turning on burns the limits away. No limits when you making the very thing up.
Tell us 3 of your favourite songs from your career and the inspiration behind them? There is no career.
‘I Met Her in the Bin’ is mentalcore love. Bringing fame theories from the world of punk culture and lesser known asylum culture together. Legs McNeill wrote it.
‘Nope Fun’ is the wiring of the dark circus’ all fizzing out and running away to wherever people that have ran to the circus run to when they run away from the circus.
‘Scenes from a 1963 Los Angeles Love In’ is where everyone is naked and with all their clothes on their heads and tequila fires burn coyotes and in the middle we make the biggest human pyramid until we collapse on top of each other nude and back at the beginning.
Tell us about your worst live show yet? It was the last one but by the time this interview is published it may be the next one.
What are the bands plans for the rest of the year? America East Coast. More limitless music making.
How would you describe your own/bands sound? The Junk.
Who is currently moving you musically at the moment? Hand Jobs from New York. Silver Daggers from Los Angeles. Jan and Dean from Malibu. Male Bonding from London.
What album changed your life and why? Fleetwood Mac ‘Rumours’ it is the template.
What are your requirements for a great show? Close chaos.
Your proudest achievement so far? Breaking the World Record for the amount of different formats available from one release.
If you could erase one single/album from history (your own or someone else's) which would it be and why? Are you insane? Not a single one, I need to hate. I need to hate The Jam and The Police and The Clash.
How do you see yourself altering the band and your sound in the future? is there anything you wish to attempt in the future that's inspiring you right now? It’s all change. Accapella is inspiring me right now, and chanting, we could drop the bass and go vocal. I’d like to make a record that is an audio story with an electric bolt through it. Crying narrators and varying hums landscaping. Wanna put hurt on tape and make it hurt nice. Want to make static rain that will rain down and we can all dance in it.
A rumour you'd like to start about yourself, or one you'd like stopped? I had sex with Ben from Fuck Buttons.
What drives you & What are your fears? Fuck Buttons shows. Fuck buttons.
The revolution comes, who would you like to be first against the wall (and if you're feeling particularly bitchy, a second, third, fourth and so on...)? 1. Sting.
2. Trudi Styler
3. Sting’s son
4. Gordon Sumner
Best piece of advice you'd give to aspiring musicians, or the best piece of advice you were given when you started? Don’t aspire.
If you're in a car going at the speed of light, and someone turns the headlamps on, would they do anything? When light is above a certain angle of incidence on an interface between two materials-say, at the face of a prism-it can be totally reflected, provided it is arriving at this interface from the higher refractive index material. However, near the boundary, something called an evanescent wave forms that does not propagate like normal light (technically it does not propagate at all) and quickly decays away to nothing. If you take a second prism and place it very close to the interface where total internal reflection occurred, then some light from this evanescent wave will leak across the interface and exit the second prism. The prisms have to be no further than the wavelength of light involved for this to work.
Now the interesting questions are: where did the energy in the car headlamp light come from? How fast did it travel across the boundary? The first question is interesting because the evanescent field has no energy in it. This is because the electric and magnetic fields that make up the field are phased in such a way that the product is always zero. The second question is interesting because the speed of light is not defined in a way that is intuitive to non-physicists. Suffice it to say that for the evanescent wave, the speed of light is zero, and therefore any measurable speed is faster than the speed of light.
TOP 5 IPOD TUNES
1.Foot village - Narc Party (Lets Make it Fucked Up) - 2008 is drum geography year. 2008 will belong to Foot Village
2. Damned - Fan Club - the best band of 76.
3.Chromatics - Left Shoulder - It was near the top of the pile it’s still hot from play. So it’s still hot.
4. Squeeze - Up the Junction - Best song ever.
5. GG Allin - I Wanna Fuck Myself - you do too.
‘Epic Fits’ is out now on Skingraft records
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