Bad Bride | Interview
Yowsa! Meeting up with the boys from Bad Bride for a Friday afternoon bevvy is an exercise in energy and walking contradictions. Part teetotaling, part tequila shot and a whole bunch of frenetic energy, these boys channel all of their influences where it matters the most – into their music.
I arranged a bunch of questions for the boys but chaos, talk of robots and Croatian mass-murder quickly reigned so the following interview is not a direct transcript of conversation, but more a mishmash of four, equally enthusiastic musicians, answering my all too serious for a Friday questions as best they could:
How did you four manage to get together and how did you decide on your (rockabilly-esque punk) sound?
We had all vaguely known each other at school but weren’t really friends. When we left school we all played in a range of different bands and as they didn’t work out, we all drifted together. We all got together and asked what’s up and who wanted to get down.
Your first full length album The First Chapter came out recently, have you had a good response?
Rip It Up Magazine gave our album 3.5 stars and said we would be a band to watch. The general response has been that this is a fantastic first album and that everyone cannot wait to see what we’ll come up with next. We wanna get straight back into the studio and start recording again. Back on back to the first album. We’re writing and thinking of ideas all the time.
Can you tell me a little bit about the recording process for The First Chapter?
It was an interesting way to record, in the studio, not jamming but laying down all the different parts of the tracks separately. We’re not sure if we would like to record that way on our next album – we might prefer to go in and have a jam in the studio. An interesting experience though.
How did you get signed to both your local label Deadboy and global giants Universal? How did you decide on Deadboy as your label of choice?
Deadboy came about because one of the band member’s brother-in-law is in the Bleeders and owns the label. Partly ‘who you know’ instead of doing exhaustive label research but it was the right fit. As for Universal, Deadboy falls under their umbrella, which means that we have the chance to be represented and distributed overseas if the interest picks up. That’s exciting. So far most stores we get our albums into sell out pretty quickly so that’s also a good thing!
Interesting choice of band name, I would have thought it was more a death metal band. How and why did you decide to call yourselves Bad Bride?
We had a number of band names ideas bandied around – the Tom Coats, the Saran Boys – but none of them seemed to fit. As we were getting together Sam’s sister was getting married and we’ll give you three guesses what sort of a bride she was being. The name was born.
You recently said on your Facebook profile that you have “more shows, recording, writing and good times” coming up. What are the future plans for Bad Bride and can we come for the good times?
As mentioned, we’re keen to get back into the studio and lay down some tracks for the second album – we wanna be prolific in a Ryan Adams sort of a way! Other than that, just playing as many gigs as possible and having a good time.
Finally – do you prefer denim or leather?
DENIM DEFINITELY!!!!
Bad Bride played at Sideroom.com Relaunch party last Saturday and were awesome once again. Big thanks.
More on Bade Bride here http://www.myspace.com/badbride
Album available here http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/46204
