Milwaukee’s basements have been glowing with a slightly goofier light the last few years. Yes, goofier than the typical Christmas lights and bare bulbs that usually adorn such places with names like “The Vault,” “The Breakfast Nook,” and one of Milwaukee’s newest basement venues, “Six Flags Great America.” The light is coming from the chests of the members of Terrior Bute, Brewtown synth-punk spazzes who tend to wear matching shirts with taplights attached to them as they bash their keytars during their shows. Also, they are totally super-young and teeny and adorable, and i say that as a straight male who dates people his own age. The Bute recently took their show out of the cellar and onto the road, playing a brisk two-week tour that sent them to New York, Baltimore, and various other destinations of an eastern persuasion. When they made it back to the home of the first place Brewers, they took some time to answer our five questions.
1. When historians listen to your most recent CD 1000 years from now, what will they say?
I liked it better when Cher did it.
2. If you could play a show with any band/musician living or dead, who would you pick and why?
OK, dream band: Jonathan Davis on vox, Fieldy on bass, Monkey on guit. and ?uestlove on drums.
3. What is the strangest band-related dream (one of) you have had?
OK, I had this dream (Henry). I was sitting at a huge banquette table out on a pier in the middle of the ocean. It was hot and sunny and I was just sitting at this huge table, and then beneath the sparkling blue waves I saw this massive swimming black translucent ghost. the ghost shot out of the water and put the sun in its mouth…which caused a solar eclipse…or what ever you would call the sun being blotted out by a ghost’s mouth…my friend JJ was there too and he turned to me after all this and said “what’s the real you Henry? How many of ‘you’ are there?” [NOTE: No, i'm not sure what this has to do with the band either.]
4. What do your fans look like?
Giant translucent swiming ghosts. [NOTE: Ah, now it makes sense.]
5. What bullshit do you run into at most every show that makes you think “man, this bullshit again?”
OK, so Ryan had this dream. We were all sitting in this giant baby basket and we all turned to each other and said “man, this bullshit again?”
Bonus question: If Hitler were cloned and birthed as a present-day infant, would it be possible to raise the clone as a productive member of society, or would it still only have one testicle and not eat meat? In other words: nature or nurture?
Jeff had a dream about this one… Jeff had a dream he was being chased by a big nazi man, only instead of having a regular head on his shoulders he had a a cooing baby there instead… and the baby had a man’s head…no, wait, never mind, it totally didn’t… pretty creepy…Jeff made a short story about it for a film class this semseter. You can read his blog about it at www.natureistherealbeast.net…???…
Their debut CD, Return to the Astro Castle, was released in August of last year on Milwaukee’s Vicious Pop Records. Groove to their single “I’m a Manican” and realize why girls my advanced age want to take them home and make them men. (Are they not men?)
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