Eskimo Joe

Whilst at Glenworth Valley '98 we bumped into the lads from the Perth band, Eskimo Joe, here's a bit of the interview which took place shortly after.

Kav                               Joel                             Stuart

*Joel-drums*Stuart-guitar/vocals*Kav-bass/vocals*Weird guy pretending to be Kav-???*

*Influences
J - Beatles
W - Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath
*Favourite Australian bands
J - Regurgitator, Living End are good, i like their songs, they have good songs...Custard are cool, Even are good, i saw them at Homebake
W - i love the Mark of Cain and Tism
*(the real bassist turns up to much confusement)
K - Fuck shit up....i’ve got some grass by the way, some guy came up to me and offered me some trips so i said ‘have you got any green stuff’ and he said yeah, i sweet talked him a bit ‘cos i’m in a band
J - turn off the tape
K -....i say the Pixies and the Beatles, Regurgitator are highly up there ‘cos they rock and i reckon Spiderbait are great as well and um..Jebadiah are fucking awesome actually and they get heaps of shit. you see, when you become famous in Perth, no one likes you anymore...i reckon Frenzal Rhomb and Nancy Vandal are fucking awesome as well
W - that’s the vandals you’re thinking of, they’re from America
J - You’ve blown it
*Any favourite zines?
K - one of my all-time favourite zine is..........kill the......
J - Cod
K - ..the goo...Kill the Cod...yeah, but unfortunately, with their magazine it always looks like Kill the Goo, that’s the only problem i has with it...um..Express, which is the Perth magazine, the guy who edits it is called, Bob Gorton, he’s horrendously huge in Perth music. We’ve got heaps of favourite bands but they are all Perth bands like Red Jezebel and Turnstyle who are fucking great, Beaverloop are awesome, Anodyne 500, Team Jedi rare really good
J - there’s lots of good bands in Perth
K - i could list them for ages and you wouldn’t know any of them
*How do you like the success of ‘Sweater’?
K - Sweater was fucking cool ‘cos JJJ have grabbed it and played it heaps and i think Australia is extremely lucky to have a radio station like JJJ ‘cos nowhere in the rest of the world is a station that supports national bands that are so independent. They play it ‘cos it’s a good band not because the record company is saying
*What about your other songs?
K - i reckon we’ve got a lot of great songs and they will recognise this and play them
*What has been your favourite gig?
J - Homebake   K - Homebake
what are your fetishes?
K - smoking marijuana, and that’s what we’re gonna do right now
J - sex is good
K - sex is good, sex and drugs and rock’n’roll
*Cartoons you like...
K - i like cartoons in general
*Any particular ones?
K - well, i don’t want to say it at the risk of sounding like everyone in Australia....South Park...o.k. i’ve said it
W - the famous five
K - how many times did fuckin’ Timmy die and yet he’d always be back in the next episode, it’s like “Oh, Timmy’s been poisoned, oh...that’s o.k. we’ll just get another Timmy”
*Which telly shows do you like?
W - has anyone seen Red Dwarf
K - i think Race Around the World is awesome
J - Neighbours and Home and Away
K - GP, Days of our lives, the Young and the Restless,...BREAKERS
*How do you Kill the Cod?
J - Gut it, then you eat it, and then...i dunno, you cook it, you fish it, that’d be boring
K - I sue its self-esteem
W - you burn it
K - I’d kill it by defeating its self-esteem. It’ll be at a disco or something like that and Joel or myself will cruise up to it and say “Oh, would you like to dance” and the cod will say “No”, and we’ll say “sorry, you must have misunderstood when we said, you’re nothing but shit”

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