Sydney Domain, Homebake, big decisions had to be made, it was hard but, the Cod girls managed to tear themselves away from listening to Jebediah to have a chat with the boys, commonly known as The Avalanches
Darren…Robbie…Gordon…Tony

Favourite telly shows…
D - When Animals Kill,….When Animals Attack..
R - When Animals Attack
D – Storm Warning
R - what was that one a few weeks ago?..what’s that show called?
D – When good times go bad
Influences
R - Hulk Hogan….Billy Ray Cyrus
D – Michael Kiochioki
R - he made a record called Yamaha Superstar..aparently they show him on ABC
You used to use a theremin on stage…what happened to that?
D – yea, we still use it
R - but not as much cos we’re sick of it
D – you can only do one thing, that “’weeee” , you can do that for about half an hour then you hate it…, we keep breaking them…so now we have to tape it or else we have too much fun and it fucks up, but we’ve broken about 3, what happens is when they break they make this noise that goes over the whole P.A. and every other sample makes this loud noise and everyone’s brain hurts….we call it ‘red brain’..it happens at rehearsals...your brain goes red
Any new releases?
D – yep, we’ve got an album just finished, we’ve just got to mix it, that’ll be out in March
What’s it called?
D – I dunno…maybe, ‘Since I left you’…it’s almost a double record, it goes for over an hour
Is it different to ‘El Producto’?
D – yeah, it’s really different, we’ve got lots of orchestra’s on it…and harps
R - violins, singers
D – the start of ‘Electricity’ is a real opera singer that we met in….
Do you like any Australian bands?
D – um…I like ‘The Frustrations’ from Tasmania
What music have you been listening to lately?
D – I just discovered ‘America’, I had never heard them before, I bought about 6000 7 inches and I’m just starting to go through them and discovering all these new bands…well old bands that I had never heard before
[muffled conversation about the Beastie Boys]
D - they’re pretty boring to tour with, they’re really square, they don’t do anything…I think they’re a bit burnt out….the guy who drove our tour bus had never driven on our side of the road before…he was fucking nuts, at sound check we were playing and he went up to play the drums and the stool broke and he fell on his arse
R - he called the stool a ‘stupid bitch’
D – yeah everything was a ‘stupid bitch’
R - we were back at the hotel room, we were all asleep and he came in and woke us all up, he hit his head on the bunk and he called the bunk a ‘stupid bitch’
D – he really hated that bunk
How do you Kill the Cod?
R - give it cancer
D – and there’s a cure for cancer only we know, we can’t say it, it’s a secret
R - cos we invented it
D – I could give it to my duck…I’ve got a pet duck, it’s called Ming
R - ask Tony……… Tony,  how would you Kill the Cod?
T – Kill the Cod?….with a wheelbarrow
Any last words?
R - we would like to say thankyou to Kill the Cod

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