Le Guess Who? May Day Subbacultcha Special

Le Guess Who? May Day Special

by Subbacultcha!

For Le Guess Who? May Day 2013, Subbacultcha! has put together five one-question interviews with bands that are playing the festival.

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Wolvon Any unsettling tour anecdotes you can think of? ‘Once we went to Bosnia to play a festival with this band called Neon Rainbows. It took us two days to drive there. We dragged all our shit up a mountain to the fortress where the festival was and on to the stage. Neon Rainbows were on before us and just after they started playing the singer got electrocuted by the mic. The dude passed out and bit his tongue, there was blood everywhere and he had to go to a Bosnian hospital. The festival got shut down.’ Wolvon play Moira at 17.30-18.00 as part of the free Le Mini Who? day programme Photo shot by Julia Hendriks in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Dirty Beaches What’s the best about being nostalgic?

‘I don’t know. I hear people used to drill holes in peoples’ skulls in Europe when they had nostalgia, ‘cuz they didn’t know how to treat it. It was in between clinical depression and other mental illnesses that occurred at the time.’

Dirty Beaches play ACU at 01.00-01.45 Photo shot bu Jussi Puikkonen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Bleached Any good road trip stories you can think of?

‘Once, we had parked our car to go on one of the many hikes in the Joshua Tree desert. When we headed back, we realised the car battery had died and there was no cellphone reception whatsoever. We tried waving cars down but no one wanted to stop. It eventually got so dark that it was pitch-black and I was seriously freaking out. I was like, “OMG we are gonna get murdered.” But then luckily two trucks pulled over and helped us out.’

Bleached play Tivoli de Helling at 21.30-22.10 Photo shot by Ye Rin Mok in Los Angeles, USA

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Ital We hear you are a professional dog walker. How many dogs do you usually walk at a time?

‘Usually one at a time. I’m not like a beast master. I interviewed for a couple of beast master positions but the pay was somehow worse.

I’m not like a domineering, dog whisperer kind of guy. They’re normally running around me, trying me up as I’m walking. More than one would be crazy.’

Ital plays at EKKO at 00.30-01.15 Photo shot by Bobby Doherty in Brooklyn, USA

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Eraas Do you have a TV? ‘No, I don’t want to watch TV. I mean, I don’t judge people that watch a little TV. I don’t wanna come across as some teen that just discovered punk rock or anything. But it’s like, when you’re visiting friends or relatives, and you find them in exactly the same spot you left them in last time, in front of the TV, that’s depressing.’

Eraas play ACU at 02.15-03.00 Photo shot by David Brandon Geeting in Brooklyn, USA