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!
 

 

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