Interview With
Lucifer Star Machine
by Steve DIY
After hearing
Lucifer Star Machine´s album I had to write off for
an interview. Not the most politically correct band
in the land but you just can´t help but laugh at
some of their answers. Here´s what Tor had to say on
behalf of the band.
Punk Globe: First off can you tell our readers who´s
who and who plays what in Lucifer Star Machine?
Tor Abyss: It´s Dave Malice on lead guitar and
uppers; The Phabster on guitar and downers; Phil
Good on bass and any shit he can get his little
hands on; our new boy Lee Morrell on drums and sweet
loving and me swearing with my cock out.
Punk
Globe: Where did your band name originate from and
what meaning does it have to you guys?
Tor: I was sailing across the 7 seas with Marlene
Dietrich. One night I was lying in her arms and she
whispered some shit in my ear I couldn´t understand.
The name of the ocean liner we were on was Lucifer
Star. Well, it was a dream I always remembered and
the name Lucifer Star has stuck in my mind ever
since. However, I also dreamt that I had a threesome
with a dead horse and a dwarf in a mouse costume but
when I woke up I couldn´t remember the name of the
dwarf.
Punk Globe: ´Fire In Your Hole´ is your
debut album so how pleased are you with the results?
Tor: It´s a fuckin’ kick in the bollocks, isn´t it?!
It´s exactly how we wanted it to be; balls to the
wall, brilliantly retarded Punk´n´Roll with ultra
loud guitars and a middle finger in the air! The
cover´s fuckin’ top too! We had a cover artist from
Poland who´s really into Rockabilly and Punk Rock so
it was basically exactly his kind of thing. He came
up with some great shit! Booze, rawk, drugs and
tits! What more do you want?
Punk Globe: Keeping on the topic of the
album how come it was released through a German
Label rather than a British one?
Tor: We’ve found that there´s a much bigger scene in
Germany and Scandinavia for that sort of music than
there is in England. We did a 4-track demo last year
and sent it off to a couple of labels. Mack from
Sonico Records loved it. He told us that he was
planning to start his own new label (called
Noisemaker) and that he was desperate to put out our
debut album as his first release.
Punk Globe:
You´ve got some pretty crazy songs so who comes up
with the ideas for the lyrics?
Tor: I normally wrap some used fishnet stockings
around my head that I get from some Japanese
mailorder and then punch myself in the face with a
broken bottle. After that I´m normally able to come
up with some Class A ideas. It’s basically ´fuck you
Byron, fuck you Shakespeare, fuck you Enyd Blyton!´
Punk Globe: So have you any gigs planned
around the UK/Europe to promote the album and if so
where?
Tor: We´re goin’ on an European tour in Sep/Oct
which will include gigs in Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Belgium and maybe The Netherlands.
We´ll play a couple of one-off shows in England,
supporting Demented Are Go in London and in
Leicester etc but it´s not worth goin’ on a headline
tour in Britain if you´re a relatively unknown band
signed to a European label. In Europe you just get a
much better reception and I know what I´m talking
about coz I´m bloody German! Besides our label
hasn´t got any distribution in the UK yet, but we
hope that will be sorted soon. There’s also talk of
an East Coast US tour early next year. But talk is
almost as cheap as The Phabster!
Punk Globe: It´s pretty safe to say your
lyrics aren´t politically correct in places so does
this cause you any grief?
Tor: Yeah, my ex-girlfriend complained that our
lyrics are sexist. However, after I tied her to the
kitchen table and gave her electro shocks to her
genitals, she thought they were fine. It’s just
Nosferatu for the Me Generation.
Punk
Globe: You guys obviously like a beer and a laugh so
any drunken incidents that you could share with our
readers?
Tor: We once had to abort a show after only 3 songs
coz our old drummer fell off his fuckin’ stool and
spoke in a language none of us understood. I don´t
know what he took that night but we have been trying
to get hold of it ever since. Yeah and Dave told me
that I once stood in the middle of a club and pissed
in a bottle of Becks, drank it and told everybody
who complained that I´m Rock´n´Roll and they were
fuckin’ pussies...
Punk Globe: So what you guys got planned for
the rest of 2005?
Tor: Doin’ the tour, then some rehab.
Punk Globe: Anything you´d like to add?
Tor: Can you lend me a tenner?
Many thanks for Tor for fetting back so quick. I
wonder how mnay complainst I´ll recieve over some of
the answers?!!! Watch this space!
|