The Offering blipped onto my radar sometime in mid-2007, and I haven’t taken my eyes off the band since. Their self-titled EP, released by the exceptional Safranin Sound record label, was on my “Best of 2007″ list, which means a hell of a lot to me, and it should to you, too. Because my list was the only actually correct one made.
Just kidding, kids. Well, kind of. My point is, you should be listening to The Offering right now.
The band will be releasing a full length sometime in May on Safranin Sound. It will be “…the most adventurous, risky record we’ve done yet, all but abandoning our pop roots for a little more rock n roll inspired experimentation and psychedelia.” Sounds like it’s going to be awesome.
Charles of The Offering was kind enough to subject himself to our 5 Questions routine, and if you keep moving your eyes in a downward direction, you can read his answers.
1. When historians listen to your most recent album 1000 years from now, what will they say?
1000 years from now global warming, terrorism, the war to fight terrorism, the destruction of civil liberties, the total annihilation of music as art, and many other historical and sociological factors will have led to one of two things: 1. we’ll all be dead, or 2. music will no longer exist, or will be controlled as if in some sort of strange vonnegutian existence. Pitchfork Media will offer online degrees in music theory, and their writers will be considered the authority on all things music. They will probably still not know who the fuck we are.
2. if you could play a show with any band/musician living or dead, who would you pick and why?
There are so many to choose from. Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd, Ian Curtis, Kurt Cobain, the Velvet Underground, the Zombies, Can, the Doors, Black Sabbath in the good years. All of the above? Shit, actually I’ve got it. The Four Seasons just after Genuine Imitation Life was put out. Fucking phenomenal.
3. What is the strangest band-related dream (one of) you have had?
I dreamt that my brother, who passed last year, came to see me at my mother’s house. He had blisters on his hands and dirt on his body. He was tired and gaunt looking but still healthier than he looked near the end of his life. He was eating gummy worms with a spoon out of a cereal bowl. He told me that he was tired. I asked him why. He said it was because “they have us digging holes”.
4. What do your fans look like?
Parasites.
5. What bullshit do you run into at most every show that makes you think “man, this bullshit again?”
We don’t generally run into much bullshit because we don’t care enough to really get involved but recently a show we played in philadelphia turned out to be a pretty miserable experience involving a certain band and their now apparent hatred for us not only as musicians but as people. I’m going to leave it at that as this is already a pretty severe beating on a very dead horse.
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Comment by erik — February 20, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
i’ll parasite him.