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| Alice Bludgeon Drum Corpse & Vocals |
| Manerva Scurvy Guitar Blaster & Vocals |
| Dr. Morticia Mangle Bass Blaster |
| WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TORMENTULA SONG & WHY? We never play a song exactly the same twice, so it depends on our mood, how much we've been practicing, etc., but I guess my favorite is "Hell's Unruliest", which was recorded for the new album. I'VE NEVER SEEN TORMENTULA LIVE BEFORE, BUT FROM ALL THE PHOTOS I'VE SEEN, IT LOOKS LIKE A VERY GOOD TIME. PLEASE DESCRIBE, IF POSSIBLE, WHAT A TORMENTULA SHOW IS LIKE? The crowd is pretty much always silent & motionless, except for a few hollering drunks. Sometimes we have stage antics, entrance songs, flames, blood, confetti, bones. Sometimes we're drunk & sloppy, sometimes we are alert & right on. It's consistently surprising & fun. WHERE ARE SOME OF THE MORE MEMORABLE PLACES YOU'VE PLAYED & WITH WHO? We loved playing at O'Cayz Corral (R.I.P.) here in madison. We played with TODAY'S THE DAY, which was a great opportunity. We played with the aging CRUCIFUCKS & that was one of the worst shows ever. We played with CAVITY a long time ago. Most recently we played with CUTTHROATS 9, which was great fun. We also played with HARLOW, the band from BANDS ON THE RUN. They had roadies, an RV, a manager, very deluxe treatment, but we had the Metal edge that comes with doing all of that shit yourself. They were nice, but wimpy. We also played with ANAL CUNT in Milwaukee. That was awesome. I'M SURE MOST OF YOUR SHOWS ARE PRETTY WILD, BUT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CRAZIER THINGS YOU'VE SEEN AT ONE OF YOUR SHOWS, FROM A BAND MEMBER OR A FAN? Since I sing & drum, I can't really look at the audience much, because the microphone is on the side, but once there was a cat fight involving 3 women. hair pulling, scratching...stereotypical. WHAT DO THE MEMBERS OF TORMENTULA DO WHEN NOT DOING ANY WORK FOR THE BAND? I work at a place that makes really cool 3D shit in the prepress department. Manerva Scurvy works at a health food grocery store & Morticia Mangle is a bartender at 2 different places as well as working on owning her own Rock club. She used to own O'Cayz Corral, which burned down last year on New Years. ARE YOU INTO ANY OTHER STYLES OF MUSIC BESIDES WHAT YOU PLAY, WHO ARE SOME OF THE BANDS YOU ARE CURRENTLY INTO? I play & compose creepy songs on the accordian. That's very far from playing drums & screaming. As far as other styles...I like everything except for Country. Right now I'm finding great joy listening to MANOWAR's "TRIUMPH OF STEEL" & KING DIAMOND's first band BLACK ROSE. WHAT'S THE BEST & WORST THING ABOUT BEING A FEMALE MUSICIAN? The worst thing is that people assume that we get attention based on gender versus musical expression. That is also the best thing, because it pushes us harder. IF TORMENTULA WAS A HORROR MOVIE, WHAT WOULD IT BE ABOUT? WHAT WOULD IT BE CALLED & WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE STAR IN IT? It would be a "dead-girl-seeking-vengence" movie. TORMENTULA could be the name of some kick ass guitarist/singer that got killed in a Rock club by a rival. She comes back from the dead to point out her murderer & fuck shit up. The role of TORMENTULA would be played by Lil' Kim. She's probably the scariest women in show business today. IF YOU WEREN'T IN TORMENTULA, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE DOING NOW? I'd be in a different band or writing songs on a four track. Maybe making art or writing. Probably living in a different town. |
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