A Popup Interview with ANUBIS SPIRE

A Popup Interview with ANUBIS SPIRE
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CK:
Name and describe your most memorable gig.

ANUBIS SPIRE:
At the Fillmore, summer 1968.

CK:
What genre(s) would you say your music is under?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Who knows? Labels have become way too polarized. Maybe anti-popular rock?

CK:
Have you ever paid for advertising for the band?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Never. All throwing money away like that gets you is a stupid easily fooled audience that will pay attention to you until someone else brings out something shiney or shows them a puppy.

CK:
Who are your biggest influences?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Probably anyone who sees through all the hype and crap. Musically, we like bands that don't care if we like them.

CK:
Introduce the members in the band:

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Bill MacKechnie:Lead guitar and vocals,Tim Costley:Bass,Dave Sweer:Keyboards and vocals,Mick Loher:Drums

CK:
What made you want to pursue songwriting?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We knew we didn't fit anywhere else.

CK:
Give us a run down of your audio equipment:

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We use stuff with tubes and wires and some actual musical instruments now and again.

CK:
Do you do any recording on your own?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We do all our own recording, mastering, duplicating and packaging of our music. We're totally independent.

CK:
Where do you practice as a band and how often?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We don't practice, we play. Mostly in the studio. Before a tour we'll rehearse but not practice.

CK:
Describe your typical stage show performance. Give us a hint into what we might expect to see are your show.

ANUBIS SPIRE:
You'll see amazing things! Right now we're hiring the scantily clad backup dancers and pyrotechnic guys. Next we'll import the giant cucumber and paint our guitars with skulls or daisys or something... Maybe we'll let our manger beat up the promoter as a kind of loving tribute to Peter Grant.

CK:
How did you/all learn to play, self or school?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We're all totally self taught. That's why we can't play SOUL MAN correctly. We're SO ashamed...

CK:
What are your plans for the future with your band?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We will finally break the curse.

CK:
What would you like to change about your city's local music scene?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Nothing. It's right where we like it, over there.

CK:
Who is your favorite unsigned Band?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Hillbilly Love Ritual. That big headed banjo boy sure can pick!

CK:
Can you name a few of you favorite places on the web for band promotions?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Not really. Soundclick?

CK:
What makes you and your band unique?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Our hairstyles and Beatle boots.

CK:
What do you like most about being an INDE artist?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
The adulation from the masses.

CK:
Most people will never know what it feels like to be on stage in front of a crowd, explain to them that feeling:

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Remember when you were a kid and your friend Brian hit you in the head with that iron pipe? It's like that only lots more blood and no money.

CK:
How long does it take for an average song to go from a musical idea to a recordable song?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Sometimes it's immediate, sometime it takes decades.

CK:
What is important to you about the music?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
The actual resonations at the atomic level. That and if it has a good beat and you can dance to it.

CK:
Let us say that you have been just signed by a major label and they say time to move 2500 miles. Now what, would you be able to move?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Sure. For a million non-recoupable dollars for the first year we'd move.

CK:
What is your favorite song on your current album?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
So Be It.

CK:
When did you first start singing, what made you choose music?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We don't really sing, we growl, screech and sound like a three year old with a bad attitude yelling at his mommy one hour after a tonsilectomy...wait...that's not us, that's EVERY BAND WE'VE HEARD in the last five years.

CK:
If you could talk to anyone in the music business, who would it be?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Bo Diddley.

CK:
Tell us about your worst gig and why it was so bad.

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We opened for the Ultimate deathtrip chinese icebox jug band. Enough said.

CK:
Has the internet really been helpful to your promotion?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Yes.

CK:
Tell us about your website:

ANUBIS SPIRE:
It's really cluttered and low tech. No flash, no interactive crap, nothing to excite the average surfer. We love it.

CK:
How big of an impact do you think the underground, indie scene has on the current pop culture?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Not too much. The puppetmasters have raised a truly Pavlonian generation.

CK:
So, tell me..what exactly, motivates you, the artist to write songs?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Just trying to avoid becoming numb.

CK:
Are there any established artists with whom you would like to collaborate?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Sure. Engelbert Humperdink. Anybody else with a cool name like that, have 'em give us a call.

CK:
What you feel is the most important thing about your music?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Most people don't like or understand it.

CK:
If you could put on a show anywhere were would it be?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
At Zahi Hawass' house.

CK:
How many members in the band write music?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
All of us.

CK:
Do you feel that "underground" is just a marketing term like anything else?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Sure.

CK:
Are you looking to get a record deal? Why?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Not really. Not unless it's fair and that's the last thing record deals are.

CK:
How experienced are you or the band on the stage?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We're all over 120 years old, what do you think?

CK:
Do you have a street or e-team system in place? Want one for your website?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Nope. Maybe...

CK:
What is your favorite local venue?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We don't have one. From the attendance numbers, neither does anyone else around here.

CK:
If your band could open for a headlining act, who would it be and why?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
We wouldn't open.

CK:
How do you transport your equipment to the gig?

ANUBIS SPIRE:
Through mental telepathy and cerebral teleportation. Either that or in Bill's Yugo.

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