ACLU Benefit (Boston, MA)

Frank (Hurricanes of Love) posed questions for Noah Britton of ACLU Benefit

Frank Hurricaine: Are you influenced at all by the spiritual music genre of butt-rock? And if so, what is your favorite butt-rock anthem?

Noah Britton: My favorite butt-rock anthem is most of the stuff Scott Stapp performs actually as the duo that Frank Hurricaine is in, not Scott Stapp the singer from Creed. Maybe my favorite butt-rock anthem is “Bawitdaba,” but “My Own Prison” is really good too. Soundgarden is great. I don’t like anything that Creed put out after My Own Prison, that stuff is horrible.

FH: Do you like getting WASTED before you perform?

NB: Never. I got wasted once before a performance because I didn’t have any interesting ideas of how to make the show good. I played a really sad song that I had just made up and was so drunk that it was difficult to perform…and that made the show better.

Getting drunk before a show makes your pitch worse, your coordination worse, your ability to respond to the crowd worse, and it’s a crutch. That said, it can be a very useful crutch, like David Yao from Jesus Lizard used to get drunk before every show or he’d play a terrible show, I gotta respect that.

If I were in a rock group that played butt-rock, it would probably be a really good idea to get drunk before the show. It’s like Kimya Dawson, if I have a soda before a show, I’m wired. Don’t drink kids, unless you wanna get laid and party. That’s my advice to all the young people that are under 30.

FH: If you were a song on Pearl Jam’s album Ten, which one would you be?

NB: “Black” because I am multi-ethnic.