Photo * Joe Miller / Makeup * Veronica Chanel
VAGENIUS * MUSIC
Interview by Veronica Chanel
Kitten*
Photo * Joe Miller / Makeup * Veronica Chanel
VAGENIUS * MUSIC
Interview by Veronica Chanel
Kitten*
Photo * Joe Miller / Makeup * Veronica Chanel
VA: We are Juliette (Vocals & Keytar), Jared (Guitar & Keyboards), Robert (Bass) Joachim (Drums) of Vagenius. VC: How would you describe your sound? Joachim: I really like it when people say we are the next Fleetwood Mac… that always excites me. VC: When can we expect your album to come out? Juliette: This May, it will be a mixture of old and new material. VC: Can you describe Vagenius in three words? Robert: Rock and Roll! VC: What has been the best show so far? Joachim: Well there have been two, the first was Weslien College in Connecticut we played there twice and the first time we played was early on when nobody really knew who we were… Jared: Somebody had gotten our CD, so when we played there everybody knew the words to our songs and they were climbing all over our gear it was just crazy! The second was at the 930 Club in DC, is just a great place to play at... Juliette: We were opening for Kings of Leon and it was a very different kind of crowd than we are used too, it was a little scary at first because they were yelling at me like “Take it off!” or “Keytar!” but by the third or forth song people really started to get into it. VC: What do you do when guys yell out to you? Juliette: I tend to ignore it; It’s just so strange I don’t know how to respond. Or I’ll just sing the song to them because they are usually right up in the front it just makes them uncomfortable when I start singing to them. VC: Where do you see yourselves in 7 years? Jared: Lets see, well we will have just paid off the van. Juliette: In seven years we will have tons of money and we’ll buy a house and start having babies. Joachim: Robert can baby-sit.
VC: Juliette do you have a favorite fashion designers? Juliette: Hussein Chalayan that’s my favorite designer every time I see his stuff in a magazine I say one day I will meet that person. VC: How would you describe each other’s personal style? Lets start with Robert. Robert: I’m pretty chill; I wear the same jeans everyday. Juliette: He goes hiking in his cowboy boots… Joachim: Robert looks like a traveling 60’s musician who just walked into town. Jared: Joachim is like a marshal in a small town, early John Bonham. Joachim: I really like vests. Joachim: Jared revolutionized his style on tour he got really super rock’n’roll. Robert: Like this elephant necklace he’s wearing… its really cool. Juliette: Jared is the only one I will trust going shopping with. Robert: Juliette is on the cutting edge of fashion. She will never do anything twice. Joachim: Juliette has a 70’s thing and a Beyond Thunderdome thing going on. Robert: Mad Max meets Snow White. Juliette: I just know that the keytar makes me look so 80’s and everybody keeps writing about us as an 80’s band. It kind of drives me a little crazy sometimes. If I buy something that’s too 80’s looking I’m like ‘I can’t wear that on stage’ even if I love it. I like 60’s mod and 70’s, with a little bit of future weird. For more visit: www.totallyvagenius.com
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