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What does Kentucky give you as a band?
A lot of free time, plus it’s very cheap to live there, we can practise and have a studio and record and aren’t working night and day. You know like somewhere like New York it’s really hard just to get by.

How would you describe the evolution of the band since forming in 1997
Very experimental noise rock, with an exploration of textures and sonics. We were influenced by groups like Rodan and Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins. The first record is very noisy : people would run out screaming from our shows!

On the second record we did a clear vinyl experimental record!
We went into a post punk phase before jumping into punk. We were into electronic dance-beats and jangly guitars - it had a cyber punk feel to it. We were getting excited about dancebeats and four to the floor rhythms. That made it easy when we switched into house.

On our third record ‘Le FUNK’ was really inspired by house.. We were into instrumental house and wanted to make people dance.

This is our 4th album .‘Night on Fire’ is a return to our love or rock and dance music at the same time. ‘Night on Fire’ is inspired by roots, rock and house.

Do you think you would have done more vocals on Le Funk if you had known in retrospect because of how well received Night on Fire has been?
Vocals came more naturally once we felt they were more like rock riffs as opposed to French House sounding things we were doing on Le Funk. Vocals just didn’t seem to fit Le Funk . We were listening to music that was so diva centred and we didn’t really want to get someone in to do that! That would be so repetitive and be messed with a lot in the studio… we didn’t know how to pull that kind of thing off live. We did try a few times though but it came off sounding a bit silly (Laughter) .

If there was going to be a war between Daft punk and Duran Duran which side would you be on?
We’d have to stay neutral! Daft Punk mean a lot to us as it came as such a big contrast to what we were doing. We were doing crazy noisy experimental indie rock and then Daft Punk came along. We had only heard about dance music in bad commercials and this music (Daft Punk) was really geared towards people who actually were into indie rock. It was tongue in cheek but serious at the same time it made us realise that dance music wasn’t disposable, something that was here today gone tomorrow. It really opened our eyes to a whole new world of music. We really respected that . It did for us what Aphex Twin does for a lot of people. It showed us we could make music in a different way.

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