Ahead of their European Tour which starts today, and in particular, their London date which we host tomorrow, we caught up with the crazy antics of Glaswegian noiseniks Divorce. Prepare yourself...
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| Photo by Stella Wan -http://www.stella-wan.com/ |
You guys are on tour again! Excited? Nervous?
Both!
Three weeks is a bit of a slog, and you guys are getting around a bit. Any particular coping strategies to yourselves from cabin fever and killing each other?
Lots of books about serial killers, so we can get tips on how to kill each other.
Who officially has the worst tour habits? I’ve seen the odd poop pics floating about but don’t want to point the finger.
That picture was photoshopped... aye! We're all exceptionally clean and hygenic, regardless of what you've been told!
You’re releasing a re-packaged version of your debut album via Night School Recs, and brand new tracks on there we can look forward to?
They're not brand new, they're all the songs we released on 7"s and EPs in 2011 and 2012. Neither the album nor those tracks had been released on CD before so we thought it'd get that dealt with in one go. We were initially reticent about releasing anything on CD but after a while we felt we were being a bit sniffy... not everybody has a record player and we were getting requests for the music to come out on that format, which is nice. It also kinda nicely documents everything we've done in the last couple of years.
Any particular place from the last tour you guys dying to play again on this tour?
There's very few places we're returning to, at least to the specific venues, but Kafe Kult in Munich is a fantastic place, it's on the grounds of an ex-WWII army hospital I believe, has a pretty spooky atmosphere... we'll be staying there overnight again too, so that should be entertaining! Wharf Chambers in Leeds is a fantastic co-operative-run space... playing in Berlin again will be great too. I'm mostly excited about the cities we've never played in yet like Paris, Vienna and Amsterdam, on my birthday... oh dear!
Promoter wise, mainland Europe vs UK, who comes out on top? Are there any significant differences?
To have asked the question I think you know the answer already...! Europe trumps the UK in every way; you get well fed, accommodated really well, lots of booze and you get paid..! But there's many reasons why promoters in Europe are able to fulfill this criteria, be it government funding, more understanding venues or whatever. I've found that in the main DIY promoters in the UK do the absolute best they can possibly do under the circumstances, and besides you still get shitty promoters on each side of the channel. We're an understanding band and appreciate all the effort any promoter makes when they put us on, we're just happy they want to book us at all!
Glasgow by far and away has my favourite music scene. Any new Glasgow based bands we need to know about?
Aye, there's a handful of good bands that have appeared recently, one is RUNGS (http://rungs.bandcamp.com), formed by 3/4s of the late, great Take A Worm For A Walk Week (http://takeawormforawalkweek.bandcamp.com/), excellent unhinged noisy stuff with some pretty manky lyrics! Hillary and Joan from Aggi Doom (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aggi-Doom/214199281971011) have started another great band called Seconds (https://www.facebook.com/secondsglasgow) and Sinead from Palms (https://www.facebook.com/palmstopalm) has another awesome band called World Peace (https://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Peace/486389594728564). Also Laurie and Ollie from our bros Ultimate Thrush (http://ultimatethrush.wordpress.com/) have teamed up with electronic duo Silk Cut and formed Golden Teacher and just released a stunning 12" on Optimo Music (http://www.optimomusic.com/releases/golden-teacher-dante-and-pilgrim).
So, with the re-release of the debut and this massive tour, does this mean you guys will be working on a new album when you come back off tour?
I hope so. We've been writing pretty solidly since we released the last one, so we've built up a handful of new tracks. We intend to play a few of them on this tour to get them as tight as possible, then get to the studio and blast them out, no messin.
What can Londoners expect on the 19th March?
Tinnitus!
So there it is folks, we'll see you tomorrow at the show. Divorce's debut album is out now on Night School Recs, buy it from the following links! VINYL: http://bit.ly/NcHGuT // DIGITAL: http://bit.ly/xLdqQW
