START?
WHEN DID YOUR CAREER
drawing and playing music
“Well, I’ve been writing,
since I was a child. Today, I
released my first EP ‘Petals
am still doing that. In 2005 I
arguments sake you could call
fresh from Road Kill’, so for
never been a unit shifter so
that the start. To be fair, I’ve
some would argue that my
at all. I only know that I have
career has not actually started
since I can remember.”
always been doing this ever
SO WHERE
NAME FROM?
DID YOU GET THE
words together - Lupen Crook – it
“Simply the sound of the two
defined the unattainable fantasy I
was searching for at the time.”
MURDERBIRDS?
WHEN DID YOU JOIN THE
Murderbirds. The Murderbirds are
“I didn’t join the
the songs. It was something that
an extension of Lupen Crook and
recording of the first album
evolved over time during the
and after meeting with the good
‘accidents occur whilst sleeping’,
Langridge, The Murderbirds
brothers, Bob and Tom
materialized as an actual band.”
WHAT
HIGHLIGHTS OF
HAVE BEEN THE
CAREER SO FAR?
YOUR
‘Iscariot the Ladder’ was a
“The UK tour in 2007 for
complete disgrace, utter ****ing
chaos. It didn’t do us any favours
in the long term, we made a bad
INFLUENCES?
WHAT ARE YOUR MUSICAL WHERE
INSPIRATION FOR YOUR
DO YOU FIND
reputation for ourselves along the
way but for those few weeks we
Walt Disney. The spirit that is
“Everything. Anything. Early
were untouchable punk rockers,
Punk Rock, the smell of sex and
LYRICS?
who with little in the way of
resources, mostly frozen to the
out from The Medway Towns.”
the sound of stray sods singing I don’t exactly know. I’m just
“My head is kinda weird.
following an age old tradition
that is trying my best to
bone and filthy right through,
built the foundations of a HAVE
observe, experience and then
brotherhood that stand stronger ON ANY
YOU BEEN WORKING communicate feelings and
thoughts and hopefully do so
than ever today. It has seen us
through some really hard times. New York, and throughout 2008
“Yeah, ever since going to
NEW MATERIAL?
in such a way that is original
It’s been 4 years now, and there we have been writing and playing
and interesting. Most
have been many rites of passage, out new material. We’ve been
importantly I need to satisfy
but without that particular really working hard to find the
my own sick little traditions,
episode we wouldn’t be the band heart and soul of the music, and
my imagination, its fantasies
we are today.” what we stand for as a band.”
and all those fruits that
appear forbidden.”
June - July | The Gig Guide | p17
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