As if you didn’t know
before, it’s official that Canada has invaded our musical border and we are the
better for it. If your ear has been to the ground for the last few years, this
comes as no surprise to you. Feral Trash, unlike their more power-pop inclined Canadian
brothers, have gone straight for the mighty Southern California heart of punk
and fed it back to us. Trashfiction
is so chock full of early ‘80’s classic So Cal influences (think Adolescents,
Simpletones, Posh Boy), that it would be right at home on the Frontier label.
Interview by Ed
Stuart
Who’s answering the questions?
Eric.
Who is in the band and what instrument do
they play?
Jesse plays
bass, Ilisha plays drums, I play guitar, we all sing.
Give us a brief history of Feral Trash’s
background, some other bands you have played in and currently do play in?
Well we are all
from Moncton, NB, Canaduh. Ilisha and Jesse had been playing in bands together
for a few years (The Kamalas, Thalidomy Kids), and I was always a huge fan, so
when I started writing songs for a new darker band, I asked them if they wanted
to play. I played in quite a few previous bands, we all did, but Fear of
Lipstick was the longest running thing. We all are currently working on new
projects.
I had read the band was originally was
from New Brunswick, but some of the band now lives in Ottawa. Is this true?
Me and Ilisha
did move to Ottawa.
What are some of the differences between
Ottawa and New Brunswick?
As for
differences, they're just typical "moved to a bigger city"
differences. More shows, more bands, more to do. Ottawa Explosion people do
shows year round here it seems, not just the summer festival and they're all
awesome. Crazy expensive to live compared to out east though, so in the end,
you don't really get out that much more due to funds being tighter. I'd also
like to mention a lot of the pizza joints here suck and the east coast favorite
dish "garlic fingers with donair sauce" is non-existent here.
What were some of the bands that inspired
Feral Trash early on?
Too many to name
I'd say, but when the three of us got fucked up together (usually with Jesse's
wife, Michelle), Red Dons Fake Meets
Failure always found its way to the turntable and a frenzy usually ensued.
White Lung and the Wipers yielded very similar results.
Eric and Ilisha are married; do you think
it’s easier being a married couple in a band as opposed to bands you have
played in separately? I would think one advantage is that you can write songs
together at home.
It's as awesome
as it sounds.
What are some things you like about all
the digital avenues presented to musicians nowadays (Bandcamp, blogs, blog
writers, Facebook, smaller record labels, internet magazines, etc.) to help
bands today? And some things you
don’t like?
Facebook rules
for booking shows/touring, sucks for everything else. Bandcamp helps people
check out bands faster than anything else. The internet is awesome and awful at
the same time. It's a total necessity these days though, if you wanna run a
band/label. I remember being younger and doing mail orders pre-internet and
waiting weeks for packages just to get a letter in the mail saying "Out of
stock, would you like anything else?"
Has any movie production company asked to
use the song “Beth” in any movies yet? The piano intro melody sounds
reminiscently like the theme from Halloween. I would have thought a horror
movie would have picked it up.
Nope, but if
they want it, they can have it.
Right now, it seems like Canada is just
pumping out so many good bands. Has Canada always been like that and it’s just
taken awhile for the rest of the world to notice or does Canada just have an
awesome group of bands right now?
It does seem
like Canada is getting a good nod from the rest of the punk world these days,
but I figure it's due to the internet and how easy it is to find the bands,
they were always here, the rest of the world just didn't know how to find us.
Where can people hear Feral Trash and
what’s next for the band?
We plan on
playing some gigs in the upcoming year and record a new 7".
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