For those who don’t know, Au Revoir Simone have been there for me in so many ways: when I cried during “Grey’s Anatomy,” when I didn’t know who was going to sing the girl part during “Young Folks” at the Peter Bjorn & John show at The Empty Bottle, and when I discovered I enjoyed dancing naked in front of my mirror to the soothing sounds that only the keyboard can make. This Brooklyn electro trio knocked socks and hippie halter tops off with their debut album, Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation.
This past March, Au Revoir Simone released their sophomore album, The Bird of Music, and to celebrate my favorite electronic female threesome (no frat boy fantasies, thank you) Au Revoir Simone was kind enough to answer Superstarcastic’s dreaded Five Questions… Of FIRE! (Editor’s note: There is no fire, nor are the questions dreaded, but our writers do tend to be adjective-heavy.) On with the questions!
1. When historians listen to your CD 1000 years from now, what will they say?
Annie: Whoa! I can’t believe people used round pieces of plastic to put music on!
Erika: Keyboard revival!
Heather: Where are the guitars?
2. If you could play a show w/ any band/musician living or dead, whom would you pick and why?
Annie: ABBA, because I want to be them.
Erika: ELO, because they are geniuses.
Heather: Bjork, because she’s basically, well, god.
3. What is the strangest band-related dream you have had?
Annie: Yesterday I had a dream that Erika was abducted from the town we were staying in and we had to go to the police to find her.
Erika: We were sitting around some one’s living room in Paris (actually it was the home of an American piano teacher who made it big and had a huge house with a bunch of decadent furniture) with a really cute pop star girl & were trying to get on the list to the “low-profile awards” event which we all agreed seemed dumb but Joanna Newsom would be playing and we all wanted to see her…so we were calling our publicists in LA trying to get hooked up with tickets. We couldn’t get through because of the time difference. Before that I had gotten lost on the way home to the piano teachers and took shelter near a vending machine in a corridor and somehow ordered two pairs of shoes using an order form similar to an a la carte menu at a restaurant in Chinatown. I ended up with four pairs that all kind of looked the same but only two fit and one pair didn’t have any soles.
Heather: We were driving through the Irish countryside in a little blue Toyota Corolla, being chased by a tornado. I mainly remember that all the windows were down, and so the speed of the car in addition to
the impending storm created a crazy chaotic windiness in the car causing our hair to whip about uncontrollably, as though a million hair dryers were pointed at us all at once.
4. What do your fans look like?
Annie: People.
Erika: Yeah, it really varies.
Heather: Smiley.
5. What bullshit do you run into at most every show that makes you think, “Man, this bullshit again?”
Annie: Our shows are consistently awesome with nearly zero bullshit.
Erika: Nice people greet us who want to help out and a beautiful bowl of fruit awaits us in our backstage room.
Heather: we never even step in bullshit. Yeah, we’re a pretty lucky band.
Bonus Question: Who would win in a fight, Au Revoir Simone or Siamese Triplets with a penchant for electronic key boards?
Annie: I’m a pacifist so I would probably invite them over my house for cookies and start a jam with them.
Erika: We would use our equivalent of the “Care Bear stare” to force them to entertain us and teach us all of their tricks.
Heather: …and then tickle them to death. So we would win.
Agreed!
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