It’s time for another round of…Bands Ask Bands!!
Tonight (11/14), Bent Knee will be playing a not-to-miss show at O’Brien’s with Roz and the Rice Cakes, EYES, and Outer Stylie. This eclectic lineup has everything: avant-garde art rock, experimental indie rock, ephemeral electronic soundscapes, and Western Mass psych rock. We asked each band a question, and then some of them had questions for the other bands as well:
BENT KNEE
ALLSTON PUDDING: If you (as many of you that would like to answer) had to swap lives with anyone else in the band, who would you choose and why?
BENT KNEE: BEN LEVIN (guitar) – If I absolutely had to swap lives with someone in the band, I would be so sad. What a torturous scenario! What a nightmare! Everyone else has such an awful life. I have the best life. Tough question…. I’d be Vince because I think his parents are the most similar to mine.
GAVIN WALLACE-AILSWORTH (drums) – I’d probably swap with Vince or Courtney. They own an ice cream maker, and I’ve got a lot of big ideas.
CHRIS BAUM (violin) – Courtney. I’d like to be able to speak Japanese, but I’m too lazy to learn.
JESSICA KION (bass) – Ben. I’d love to be so thin and eat whatever I want.
ROZ AND THE RICE CAKES
AP: Roz, you have a great collection of tiny things. If you could have a tiny version of anything, what would it be?
ROZ AND THE RICE CAKES: The tiniest thing I’d want to see would be a teeny tiny ice cream sundae because ice cream makes my heart soar.
BENT KNEE: What should we call our new album? Coming up with a title internally has proven to be impossible, so we’re outsourcing ideas.
ROZ AND THE RICE CAKES: Bent Knee should call their album “Cat Business” because I think that title would connect to a wide audience regardless of the music.
EYES
AP: This is your debut in Boston as EYES, but certainly not your first time playing Boston. What’s your advice for any band’s first time in Boston?
EYES: I’m not sure I have any advice for a bands first time in Boston. I guess be careful where you park because they LOVE ticketing around there. Like with any city, you want to learn where the venues are and what kind of vibe they have in terms of who is booked there and who goes there, which venues are owned by the same people/companies, and get a feel for the scenes and booking people. I’m not sure we have the best grip on that at this moment. I’d recommend to any band that the most important thing with any show in any place is to do what you’re passionate about and execute it to the best degree that you can and with the most passion and energy you can muster. And keep your head up at those shows (and you will have them) where no one shows up or where you have massive technical difficulties or mistakes; People notice and it makes a huge difference. Personally for me, if I can have just ONE person massively excited about EYES after a show, I feel like something was accomplished.
ROZ AND THE RICE CAKES: If your band could be any type of animal, what would it be and why?
EYES: I’m confused, area all of us 4 of the same animal? Or can we be different ones? Or are we all going to become one animal? Because that doesn’t sound fun. I like my privacy.
OUTER STYLIE
AP: If you could get one of your songs played on any TV show, what show would it be?
OUTER STYLIE: Night Rider or Murder She Wrote. Kind of a toss up!
Catch them all at O’Brien’s tonight (11/14) for a few bucks.