À l'occasion du lancement de Bangers II: Scum of the Earth, le
30 juin a la Sala Rosa nous nous sommes entretenu, avec Nick de
Barn Burner afin de savoir en détails les choses les plus inutiles entourant sa vie et le lancement de leur dernier album. En plus de faire partie d'un des bands les plus Heavy a Montreal nous avons pu voir lors de nos soirées qu'ils sont, en plus, carrément des gars que tu veux comme meilleurs amis pour faire le party a tous les soirs, hum si t'as pas a payer pour leurs consommations. Voici donc notre entrevue digne de fille d'aujourd'hui en 1994.
Watch out le bilinguisme:
Judging by your blog you seem to be big food fans, what’s is the best meal you had on tour?
- Well I am the only vegan in the band, and this tour I have been eating more than french fries. Which rules. The best meal I have had so far (although there have been many) was at the vegan pizza house in Vancouver. Fucking delicious!
You're touring more or less half of the year, what is the thing you are missing the most when you’re away?
- Ah well it sounds cheesy I'm sure, but I miss my girlfriend Stephanie the most. Being away for such long stints from someone you love can get harsh. She travels a lot too and its hard, but we deal. Taylor misses his dog and cat for sure. Cam misses his cat named Lemmy. And kev "misses" Cam's cat Lemmy as well.
We’ve notice that ‘’roadies’’ are a common thing with metal bands, how many do you have for this tour ?
-We suck so we don't have roadies. Our bud Colin comes with us when he can, but he usually just bikes around. Helps load a bit. We can't afford to pay him so he can't afford to help. Makes sense. Ha.
Do you make them wash your underwears ?
- Colin could beat us all up, so we usually end up wiping his butt for him.
What would you describe as your weirdest tour experience?
- Hrmmm, great question. We have seen it ALL!!! But I hate how often you get in a decent conversation with people in new cities, and then everything gets weird after they make a racial slurr and it bums us all out. Happens way too much. People are fucked.
Which album have you literally over listened on the road and can no more hear a note of?
- Our shitty tour manager / booking agent in europe almost ruined pride tiger, and danzig. We barely squeaked out with those in tact. Annihilation time still gets rolling eyes from a few of us. We fucking love those bands though. I listen to A.A. Bondy all the time. He's my folk hero. And everyone else can't stand it. Ha.
Correct us if we're wrong but we think all of you guys live in St-Henri? do you feel a spirit in your sound inspired from that particular Montreal's neighbourhood?
- Kev and Cam live in NDG now. Me and taylor live in the Hen-dog. Kev writes everything pretty much. Our neighbourhoods are hilarious, but they give us no sound inspiration. Just awesome places to play hide-and-drink.
Simon Fer especially want to know what is your most close paranormal encounter moment ( he’s into x-file a lot lately)?
- Ah well sometimes when I'm really hungover and really tired I'll try to nap, but since I have a brutal case of the fear I usually end up hallucinating. And one time I had this image of some old womans hand slowly crawling along my bed and onto my hand and I freaked out and was so scared. It was hours before I fell back asleep.
You got a new guitarist for the upcoming album/tour, can you tell us a bit about him and what was his ritual initiation, is he aware of what he’s getting into ?
- Hahah. His name is Cam Cam Noakes. His initiation was to make him sort and run our merch table. But it backfired because he likes doing it. So its a win/win situation. And he has no idea what he is getting into. We had him partying so hard we had to leave the states early to get him medical treatment back in Canada. Dude was spitting up blood and shit. Gross. He's good now though. I think..... Whatever.
Since you’re well known to be awesome heavy partyers, Have you ever been too drunk to play ?
- Naw we've all held our shit together long enough to make it through every set. We have all had close calls. Sometimes some of us may not remember playing, but we always have (I've been told, haha). These days we want to play well. So we hold off on getting weird drunk til after. But a few dranks before hand is perfect.
How did you ended up creating the Scrap Metal genre?
- There are so many different genres of metal and we never really fit into any of them. Scrap Metal was a perfect creation because we take scraps from all other kinds of metal, and make our brand of "scrap metal".
When we were a kids, we remember that we weren't really reading about all the shit around the recording in an interview, ok maybe because I ( Isaluci) wasn't speaking a word in english, but we would felt really accomplished to know what was Slash's favorite color. Things haven't change for us since, so here's the questions we really care to know about :
Favorite band you played with on tour?
- Bison, great band, greater dudes.
Favorite upcoming band?
- Firearchy
Favorite non metal album ?
- When the Devil's Loose by A.A. Bondy
Favorite guilty pleasure song?
- My Love by justin timberlake
Favorite quote in a movie?
- (The silent mumbled part) at the end of Lost In Translation. Its so crucial.
Favorite place to eat in Montreal?
- Belle province
Favorite sport?
- Hockey
Favorite gift you ever got?
- San jose sharks coat when I was 8 years old or the san jose sharks jersey I got when I was 27 years old.
Favorite animal?
- Sloth
What is the question you wish someone ask you in an interview?
- "Hey, I heard you played junior A hockey, what was that like? Don't leave out any details"
Any surprises for the Cd release?
- I want us all to wear corpse paint. But realistically that won't happen. Just keep your fingers crossed, and maybe it will!
Thanks eh!!
Interview par Isa luci et Simon Fer avec Nick Ball
Merci énormement à Nick d'être extraordinaire et d'avoir prit le temps de répondre, dans sa courte période de repos à notre première, trop longue et ridicule entrevue!! Si vous manquez leur lancement le 30 juin à la Sala vous manquez en gros sur la vie et vous pouvez l'inscrire immédiatement dans votre liste de regrets.
Pour entendre 2 des chansons de leur nouvel album, vous pouvez aller voir leur bandcamp.
ICI OU
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Si vous voulez suivre Barn Burner en tournée et comprendre l'essence de notre entrevue et de leur awesomeness nous vous conseillons d'aller voir leur oh combien divertissant tour blog:
http://barnburner.wordpress.com/ isaluci
