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INTERVIEWS
Zombie Killer Zine
Interview w/ Aimee Echo, Erick Sanger, and Eno
Source: Zombie
Killer Zine
Interviewer: Anna Zombie
Z: Anna Zombie= photographer/journalist, Grrr...Photography & Zombie Killer
Zine
A: Aimee Echo= vocals, the Start
E: Erik= bass, the Start
J: Jennifer Long= All About the Music.net
E: Eno= the world famous the Start dog
Z: Will you guys introduce yourselves?
A: Hi, I’m Aimee.
E: I’m Aimee! I’m Aimee!
Z: What do you guys have planned
for after this tour?
A: We’re actually coming right back here!
Z: Yeah?
E: We’ll be back here…
A: We’re gonna go pick up our van and our trailer and we’re coming
back to Kansas and we’re gonna lock ourselves in Billy, our drummer’s,
Mom’s basement for about 3 weeks.
Z: Sounds like fun!
A: We’re goona try and write the rest of our record.
Z: Right on. You guys have some
of the new record written already?
A: Yeah.
E: Yeah, but there is no try. There is only do or do not.
A: Erik’s here to give proverbs!
E: That’s a yoda proverb.
Z: What’s it like being on
an “all-girl” tour?
A: The dance parties are better!
E: I don’t even consider it an “all-girl” tour.
A: Cuzz its not. Erik’s got a penis [laughs]!
E: Jamie has a penis, and Billy, and Kevin, Johnny…
A: …has a penis, Josh had a penis, Bill has a penis…there’s a
lot of dick!
Z: Maybe there’s actually more boys on the tour.
E: It’s actually even.
A: It’s half and half.
E: We figured it all up, and with all the production staff and everybody everything
is equal numbers
Z: I’ve seen you guys twice now and I really like you guys! What would
you say your show is all about for someone who hasn’t seen it before?
A: For me personally, the second I step on stage, I feel like I’m running
for my life until I finish the last song so that’s what…I mean, that’s
literally what its like for me. I have a little bit of stage fright so I think
to conquer it, I try to get out as much energy as I can [laughs]!
E: What was the question again [laughs]??
Z: For someone who hasn’t seen you before…What is your show like for
someone who hasn’t seen it?
E: Full-throttle. Anybody who sees us is definitely gonna see a show. They’re
not just gonna see a bunch of “shoe-gazers”. We’re gonna give
200% or 300% or 400%.
Z: I like that.
E: Usually, its 500%, it depends on the elevation…
A: I think its 4.
E: 4%?
A: 400.
E: Depends on the elevation.
J: I expect a lot from Billy tonight cuzz he’s from here.
E: Yeah.
A: Actually, he’ll probably screw up because he’ll be nervous.
E: Nah, I bet he doesn’t screw up.
Z: Is his family coming to the show tonight?
A: Oh, yeah!
J: Probably filled the whole [guest] list up.
A: Yeah, he’s got all the Brimblecom people.
E: But yeah, if nobody’s ever seen a show, they’re gonna see a show!
That’s one of the cool things about being in the Start, seeing the Start,
is there’s gonna be a show.
Z: Where you guys in other bands before the Start?
A: I was in a band called “Human Waste Project”.
E: Jamie was in a band called “Snot”. Billy was in the “Creature
Comforts” and …
A: Erik was in a band called “Kissing Chaos”.
E: “Kissing Chaos”, played with “Sparta”, all the rest are
trivial.
A: Spartttttta!
E: Sparta. Sparta was the only cool band I’ve ever…no, I shouldn’t
say cool band. The coolest band I was in was “Kissing Chaos”, but
now the coolest I was in is “the Start”. But Sparta is the only band
that people know or have heard of.
[Aimee reaches over, picks up an
air-freshener, put it to her nose, and sniffs it.]
A: OHHH! OHHH!
E: You were asking for it! [We all laugh.] I saw you going for it and I was
like, “What is she…there’s no way…that’s gonna kill
you”!
A: Oh, I wanna vomit.
Z: Do you ever do that before a show, do you ever get like so nervous…you
smell air-fresheners and just…
A: No, but I do have an impulse-control problem. Like when I was younger and
I would go skiing in the mountains, I would really wanna jump off the ski lift
and I’d usually catch it just before. But that [sniffing the air-freshener]
was an instance of me not catching it. Like I hit my Uncle on the head with
a wrench once because I just…its that bizarre impulse-control thing.
Z: Do you have anything? [Points to Erik.]
A: Probably makes for a better show! [Referring to her impulse-control problem.]
Erik has a lot of impulse-control problems. He also has A.D.D.
E: Yeah, I’m actually pretty calm right now. I’m surprised by it because
I’m crashing on the coffee buzz. He has T.C.D. too. [Laughs.]
E: Ten cups of coffee syndrome?
A: Terminal child disorder.
E: Oh, yeah. I’m just a big kid.
A: Or P.C.D., permanent child disorder.
Z: Oh, there’s a puppy!
A: That’s Eno.
E: That’s ENO!
A: The world famous.
E: Eno is the 5th…6th…actually the 4th member , I think I’m the
5th member.
A: The Start dog.
E: Actually, Eno is the 3rd member. Actually in his eyes, he’s the 1st
member. Then Aimee, then Jamie.
A: Eno! Eno! Eno! Eno! He’s totally in to you! [Eno is sniffing my shoes!]
Do you want some salmon treats?
J: Nope, he wants to smell Anna.
Z: Does he ever come to the show?
A: His ears are very large, so no.
E: He likes to come but he’ll only come if there’s a place for him
to sit and chill in the back. But when he’s got a big bus to sit on…lots
of pretty girls bunks he can lay in. Especially that pretty girl. Hi, pretty
girl! [Erik points to a tall guy with blue hair.]
Z: Thank you guys! Is there anything
that you would like to tell your fans?
A: We have a new records that’s gonna come out next year- April- and our
new EP is coming out on December 9th on Nitro. We just signed to Nitro.
Z: And the EP is “Shakedown” or “Shakedown” is already out?
A: Shakedown was our first full-length record and the EP is called “the
Death Via Satellite EP” and…
E: December 9th.
A: On Nitro with a video added to it. We’ve been selling it on tour ourselves
but its never been commercially available so this is the first release we’re
having on Nitro and you can already pre-order it on the Nitro website.
E: Hopefully when I get home next week, I’ll have my own copy of it. My
very own copy! But I already have a copy of it…
A: Not like that, though.
Z: You want the new and improved one!
E: My picture is on it now.
A: So that’s that. December 9th and then next April the new record will
be out.
E: We’ll be on tour forever.
A: All year!
Z: Until you die!
A: No, don’t say that, don’t say that! [We all laugh.]
E: But that doesn’t mean skip a show then we’ll be back soon, that
just means you get to see us more.
A: Next year, we’re going to do a lot of Europe too, and Japan. So in-between
shows is going to get a little longer. Usually we’re working on like a
2-month cycle. Every 2 or 3 months, we’d come through a city…not always
because we were jumping on other people’s routings which is the case this
next year as well. We’ll be supporting a lot and not doing as many headlining
shows. I’d say once every 3 months maybe if we’re lucky we’ll
be cycling through because we’re adding in UK, Japan and Europe too.
E: And Australia.
A: [In an accent] Australia!
E: So we’ll be out and about everywhere!
Z: Good deal!