Gender: Female
Status: Single
Age: 40
Sign: Sagittarius
City: HAUNTED HISTORICAL REMAINS OF CHI-TOWN
State: Illinois
Country: US
Signup Date: 6/30/2004
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Monday, November 09, 2009
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Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Music
Here is the interview with the SB changes:
Band: The Spiritual Bat
Interviewer: Michelle Russo
Transcriber: Frost Oktober
The Spiritual Bat is a Death Rock band straight from Italy consisting of 2 members: vocalist Rosetta Garri and guitarist, The Spiritual Bat himself, Dario Passamonti. The original name of the band was Spiritual Bats but since one of the founding members left the band it now goes by the singular form. The band creates a unique atmosphere unlike anything typically heard in America using a very tribal percussion rhythm, reminiscent of Tool, along with beautifully sung, ambient vocals like the lamentation of some divine being calling from the darkest pits of the darkest cave. The guitars played by Dario are beautifully composed and seem to wrap around you as he plays. Every note carries emotion and forces the listener to heed it's message. The Spiritual Bat have only recently finished their U.S. tour playing through the musical underground and spreading their benevolent, psychedelic, darkness, it is only a matter of time before they return and do it again.
Note: For the duration of this interview, Dario's responses were translated into English by Rosetta. Ironic huh?
QM: "This is your first time playing in the U.S, I do believe, why has it taken you so long to play here?"
SB: "Spiritual Bat actually has played in the U.S. in 1998, I think. It was Spiritual Bats and I was playing the drums back then. So it's not the first time, but it was a long time ago and that was the only time."
QM: "But not Chicago, correct?"
SB: "Not anywhere else. This was the only gig ever. So this is actually our first tour ever. First time in Chicago, yes. It's taken so long probably because we were never into playing live. It was always rare, very rare. Dario never liked playing live. Even at the CB's Gallery gig back in 1998, he actually played with his back to the crowd. He's not into it, he never was. We're doing this for a friend of ours who's no longer with us. He passed away last year in July. He was our sound engineer and very good friend. He always believed and always told us that we would become better musicians and that this experience would complete us. We trusted the guy, we just didn't have the courage to do it. That's why it's taken so long. Doors opened here, we're trying to do our best to keep our promise."
QM: "And what state what the first show?"
SB: "The first show was in San Francisco, California."
QM: "Okay, and also what was the first show that the Bats played in the U.S.?"
SB: "The Spiritual Bats? That was CB's Gallery in New York on Alchemy Night, the Gothic Night was called Alchemy Night."
QM: "What made you decide to finally leave the European circuit for a while and come into the unknown like the U.S.?"
SB: "One of the reasons is that we've received a lot of requests from a lot of fans, so I guess that's a pretty good reason. We owe them. The other reason, in addition to our friend, is that when people ask you, people who buy your CDs, people who tell you touching things about your music, they want to see you live, you kind of owe them. So we're making this effort and we're here."
QM: "Very cool. What is the musical origin of the band? It's musical time line perhaps if you will."
SB: "Spiritual Bats was formed in 1992 by Dario and the person who was then the singer, Matteo, who is actually the person who found the name Spiritual Bats. In 1993 a vinyl EP was released, very underground, very rare, a very special record. That was one line up. There was one drummer who played Industrial drums, not a drum set, and a keyboard player, and a bass player. The next lineup, 1995, was the first CD "Confession" and 1999 was when "Sacrament" came out and I joined as the drummer."
QM: "Very cool. So it went from the "Bats" to the "Bat."
SB: "Yeah that happened because eventually Dario and Matteo started developing different views on music and art and according to Matteo it was over. So Dario said, "Okay, we're not the "Bats" I am "The Spiritual Bat." It's kind of playing the ironic thing."
QM: "Yes, because irony is always very important in music as well. How has the style of the music changed since you, Rosy, joined physically in both roles? Drumming and singing."
SB: "Well I am not sure I am the best person to answer that because I think that's more of a job for critics, but perhaps I can say what I have brought with me. My cultural baggage is made of a lot of different genres that I listen to from Opera which I studied in school. I was interested in Ethno-musicology a lot and Shamanic Drumming, the way that drums and rhythms can trigger relationships with the other world or the spirits, etc. So that was part of my studies in college. So I brought some of that with me. I listen to a lot of things so I don't know if that can be heard in my drumming. Actually my drumming never ripened. I consider it kind of instinctive kind of drumming and that's why I didn't feel comfortable drumming anymore and tried something else."
QM: "With this new album "Through the Shadows" how do you believe the music has changed it progression and it's direction?"
SB: "Perhaps people expected something different, something closer to "Confession" or "Sacrament." This has a lot to do with the visual reality in which Dario lives which is very particular. His journey, he is saying, at the present time is a journey in darkness but in this darkness there is light, there's a sort of brightness. It has to do with that a lot. Observing the world from this particular visual reality and that's where it's going I guess."
QM: "You use visuals on your albums and backgrounds. Where do these come from? Are you part of some sort of art movement? What is the origin or timeline?"
SB: "There is a movement of painters called the Alchemisti Painters and Dario is a part of that. Our house is full of paintings that he made. The Alchemisti Painters was a group founded in 1976 by Lamberto Bracaglia. They've been exhibited in many international exhibitions. There's a big background there. There's a Funeral Cries video that was made by them. There's a 30 minute video edited by our friend John Slackman in New York all based on the images of the Alchemisti Painters. Speaking of visuals, on every CD that we have ever released, every CD, even on the vinyl, there is something by a painter whose name was Luigi Pacioni who died in 1978 at the age of 26, he was a visionary, I wish I could show you what he did. So in every CD, in his honor, there is something, either a poem or an image by this artist, Luigi Pacioni. On the "Sacrament" CD we also have Eric Hammer's contribution because he really connected with the Alchemisti Painters."
QM: "Yes, very well known, definitely. What concepts inspired these images?"
SB: "Well basically it's the Alchemic Quest for the Philosopher's Stone, not as known by the kids today in Harry Potter, Alchemy has been around for millennia. The Philosopher's Stone, the quest for knowing thyself, the exploration of the microcosm and macrocosm, inside and outside, so knowing thyself. When you see these paintings you actually feel like you're in a sort of journey."
QM: "Kind of a spiritual journey, perhaps a quest."
SB: "But it's not so much the final destination that is the goal, it is the journey."
QM: "Do you feel you are portraying a message to the masses through your visuals and uniqueness?"
SB: "One of the main principles is knowing thyself through history too. I want to add a personal viewpoint on that. I've been asked this question before recently by a young fan. What I felt like saying at that moment, and I think it's still true, is that perhaps it's like reaching out, like a loving embrace in the dark when you perhaps think that you are alone and desperate. Sometimes it may be that."
QM: "I see, I see. What is the symbolism behind the name?"
SB: "(Chuckles) Bats can't see, but they can hear very well."
QM: "Oh secret secret (chuckles)"
SB: "That's it!"
QM: "And they're spiritual somehow (laughs)!"
SB: "Spiritual when they want to be spiritual!"
QM: "Do you write in first person, third person, or both?"
SB: "I think I've written in both."
QM: "How do you get your ideas for your lyrics? Do they come from dreams, thought scapes, visions, and personal experiences?"
SB: "All of the above. Sometimes ideas that I may be obsessed with for many years turn into a song."
QM: "I understand that Dario, with The Spiritual Bats, was the only opener for The Daucus Karota, Rozz, in Italy. That must have been a magical experience. When was the show and what was the effect on him and the band?"
SB: "That was November, 1994. There was a big impact. Spiritual Bats had split up, they weren't talking to each other for months already and the presence of Rozz Williams brought them back together. It happened all in one day because they had all gone to see the show. They found each other there, somebody asked them if they wanted to open and they hadn't been rehearsing, they hadn't been talking to each other for months, they didn't even have their instruments, they played those of the band, of Daucus Karota, they played their instruments. Then they started talking to each other. That's a big impact (chuckles)."
QM: "And they stayed after the show too, right, and conversed?"
SB: "Oh yeah some of them did, there was a bit of a language barrier, but you can feel the greatness."
QM: "What did Daucus Karota think of the Spiritual Bats?"
SB: "We would have to ask them (chuckles)!"
QM: "Did you ever?"
SB: "I wouldn't dare (laughs)!"
QM: "(Laughs) I wouldn't dare! How do you think that Death Rock has changed since Rozz's death and what is the personal impact and effect that it's had on your band?"
SB: "He left a great void, emptiness, he left emptiness, that's the initial feeling. That's not all though because there was also this energy that was left by him, this great heritage, great legacy, so the void is not really emptiness and nothingness, there is a richness that he has left all of us."
QM: "We see your music as unique Psychedelic Death Rock. How do you feel about that sentiment?"
SB: "There's some truth in that. Psychedelic music has left an influence in Dario."
QM: "What future projects can we expect from The Spiritual Bat?"
SB: We can't predict the future yet, but you never know, the new album, for sure. There are songs that we play in our live set that are going to be on the new album so Chicago and the other places in the States are going to be the first to hear songs from the next album. We'd love to come back with the full band which is our dream."
QM: "As an added question, starting with Rosy, what would you say just past and present, dead or alive, are your musical influences that have always been with you?"
SB: "Can I mention Maria Callas, Ella Fitzgerald, and Max Roach as a drummer, there's so many. Requiem in White was a soundtrack to a part of my life, to our life together."
QM: "And also poetically, who would you say?"
SB: "The Romantics, just a lot of poets, I don't know where to start. Recently influences are from Spanish Literature, very intense. Spanish artists are very surreal, very visionary."
QM: "The last facet, artistically, separate from poetic."
SB: "For me The Alchemisti Painters (chuckles). When I discovered Alchemisti Painters I thought, "This is it, I'm not a painter or an artist. And the Avant Gardes."
QM: "Now starting with Dario, musically."
SB: "How far back do you want to go? Let's start with very general, our paths have been very different. The Rock matrix, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees."
QM: "And artistically?"
SB: "The Renaissance Painters, Baroque, and the great Cathedrals, architecturally."
QM: "And the last facet would be poetically."
SB: "The Avant Gardes, Alda Merini"
QM: "Very cool. Well, I certainly thank you for this interview. You've been very thorough and obviously have satisfied all my questions, so I thank you. How interesting, this interview will go up in Chain DLK in Rome, you had to come all the way here (laughs)!"
SB: "Well next time you better get yourself to Rome so we can do it there (laughs)!"
QM: "Well we welcome you obviously. In conclusion, what are some tips of surviving to bands that are just starting out?"
SB: "Finding a direction, first of all, and maintaining lucidity." ENJOY! SPECIAL THANX TO THE SPIRITUAL BAT AND TO FROST FROM BLEEDSYNTH ~ CD 1334 oF cHICAGO
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Friday, November 06, 2009
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Current mood:  nostalgic
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
 HAPPY B DAY ROZZ TODAY IS A DAY OF REMEMBERANCE ROZZ WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 6TH 1963-APRIL 1ST, 1998 ~ cHRISTINA dEATH 1334 oF cHICAGO
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
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Current mood:  loved
Category: Parties and Nightlife
   I AM HONOURED TO SAY I RECEIVED MY 40TH BDAY PRESENT FROM JYRKI 69 IT ROX AND SO DOES HE CHECK IT! ~ CD 1334 oF cHICAGO
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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Current mood: loved
Category: Music
OUR EVENT AT THE NITE LIGHT CAFE ROCKED...BELA MORTE,EGOLIKNESS AND
VERSAILLES PLAYED AND IT ROCKED...I DID MY CD GIVEAWAY THAT NITE AND
ALL WENT WELL...ANDY WAS SICK AND STILL ROCKED OUT..LOVE YOU...
ANDY DEDICATED CHRISTINA TO ME....ROCK ON!
IT WAS AWESOME..CHECK OUT MY PHOTOS...
CHEERS
AND TO THE SINGER OF EGO LIKENESS YOU TOUCHED MY HEART....         THANX TO THE NITE LIGHT CAFE....FOR EVERYTHING AND THE SPECIAL PRAYER TO MY DAD...IT MEANT ALOT TO ME...
~ CD 1334 oF cHICAGO
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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Current mood: pirate
Category: Music
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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Current mood: loved
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Current mood: accomplished
Category: Music
Band: The Spiritual Bat Interviewer: Michelle RussoTranscriber: Frost Oktober
The Spiritual Bat is a Death Rock band straight from Italy consisting of 2 members: vocalist Rosetta Garri and guitarist, The Spiritual Bat himself, Dario Passamonti. The original name of the band was Spiritual Bats but since one of the members left the band it now goes by the singular form.The band creates a unique atmosphere unlike anything typically heard in America using a very tribal percussion rhythm, reminiscent of Tool, along with beautifully sung, ambient vocals like the lamentation of some divine being calling from the darkest pits of the darkest cave. The guitars played by Dario are beautifully composed and seem to wrap around you as he plays. Every note carries emotion and forces the listener to heed it's message. The Spiritual Bat have only recently finished their U.S. tour playing through the musical underground and spreading their benevolent, psychedelic, darkness, it is only a matter of time before they return and do it again.
Note: For the duration of this interview, Dario's responses were translated into English by Rosetta. Ironic huh?
QM: "This is your first time playing in the U.S, I do believe, why has it taken you so long to play here?"
SB: "Spiritual Bat actually has played in the U.S. in 1998, I think. It was Spiritual Bats and I was playing the drums back then. So it's not the first time, but it was a long time ago and that was the only time."
QM: "But not Chicago, correct?"
SB: "Not anywhere else. This was the only gig ever. So this is actually our first tour ever. First time in Chicago, yes. It's taken so long probably because we were never into playing live. It was always rare, very rare. Dario never liked playing live. Even at the CDs Gallery gig back in 1998, he actually played with his back to the crowd. He's not into it, he never was. We're doing this for a friend of ours who's no longer with us. He passed away last year in july. He was our sound engineer and very good friend. He always believed and always told us that we would only become better musicians and that this experience would complete us. We trusted the guy, we just didn't have the courage to do it. That's why it's taken so long. Doors opened here, we're trying to do our best to keep our promise."
QM: "And what state what the first show?"
SB: "The first show was in San Francisco, California."
QM: "Okay, and also what was the first show that the Bats played in the U.S.?"
SB: "The Spiritual Bats? That was CDs Gallery in New York on Alchemy Night, the Gothic Night was called Alchemy Night."
QM: "What made you decide to finally leave the European circuit for a while and come into the unknown like the U.S.?"
SB: "One of the reasons is that we've received a lot of requests from a lot of fans, so I guess that's a pretty good reason. We owe them. The other reason, in addition to our friend, is that when people ask you, people who buy your CDs, people who tell you touching things about your music, they want to see you live, you kind of owe them. So we're making this effort and we're here."
QM: "Very cool. What is the musical origin of the band? It's musical time line perhaps if you will."
SB: "Spiritual Bats was formed in 1992 by Dario and the person who was then the singer, Mateo, who is actually the person who founded the name Spiritual Bats. In 1993 a vital EP was released, very underground, very rare, a very special record. That was one line up. There was one drummer who played Industrial drums, not a drum set, and a keyboard player, and a bass player. The next lineup, 1995, was the first CD "Confession" and 1999 was when "Sacrament" came out and I joined as the drummer."
QM: "Very cool. So it went from the "Bats" to the "Bat."
SB: "Yeah that happened because eventually Dario and Mateo started developing different views on music and art and according to Mateo it was over. So he said, "Okay, we're not the "Bats" I am "The Spiritual Bat." It's kind of playing the ironic thing."
QM: "Yes, because irony is always very important in music as well. How has the style of the music changed since you, Rosie, joined physically in both roles? Drumming and singing."
SB: "Well I am not sure I am the best person to answer that because I think that's more of a job for critics, but perhaps I can say what I have brought with me. My cultural baggage is made of a lot of different genres that I listen to from Opera which I studied in school. I was interested in Ethnomusicology a lot and Shamanic Drumming, the way that drums and rhythms can trigger relationships with the other world or the spirits, etc. So that was part of my studies in college. So I brought some of that with me. I listen to a lot of things so I don't know if that can be heard in my drumming. Actually my drumming never ripened. I consider it kind of instinctive kind of drumming and that's why I didn't feel comfortable drumming anymore and tried something else."
QM: "With this new album "Through the Shadows" how do you believe the music has changed it progression and it's direction?"
SB: "Perhaps people expected something different, something closer to "Confession" or "Sacrament." This has a lot to do with the visual reality in which Dario lives which is very particular. His journey, he is saying, at the present time is a journey in darkness but in this darkness there is light, there's a sort of brightness. It has to do with that a lot. Observing the world from this particular visual reality and that's where it's going I guess."
QM: "You use visuals on your albums and backgrounds. Where do these come from? Are you part of some sort of art movement? What is the origin or timeline?"
SB: "There is a movement of painters called the Alchemisti Painters and Dario is a part of that. Our house is full of paintings that he made. The Alchemisti Painters was a group founded in 1976 by Lamberto Bracaglia. They've been exhibited on many international exhibitions. There's a big background there. There's a Funeral Christ video that was made by them. There's a 30 minute video edited by our friend John Slackman in New York all based on the images of the Alchemisti Painters. Speaking of visuals, on every CD that we have ever released, every CD, even on vinyl, there is something by a painter whose name was Luigi Pacchioni who died in 1978 at the age of 26, he was a visionary, I wish I could show you what he did. So in every CD, in his honor, there is something, either a poem or an image by this artist Luigi Pacchioni. On the "Sacrament" CD we also have Eric Hammer's contribution because he really connected with the Alchemisti Painters."
QM: "Yes, very well known, definitely. What concepts inspired these images?"
SB: "Well basically it's the Alchemic Quest for the Philosopher's Stone, not as known by the kids today in Harry Potter, Alchemy has been around for millennia. The Philosopher's Stone, the quest for knowing thyself, the exploration of the microcosm and macrocosm, inside and outside, so knowing thyself. When you see these paintings you actually feel like you're in a sort of journey."
QM: "Kind of a spiritual journey, perhaps a quest."
SB: "But it's not so much the final destination that is the goal, it is the journey."
QM: "Do you feel you are portraying a message to the masses through your visuals and uniqueness?"
SB: "One of the main principles is knowing thyself through history too. I want to add a personal viewpoint on that. I've been asked this question before recently by a young fan. What I felt like saying at that moment, and I think it's still true, is that perhaps it's like reaching out, like a loving embrace in the dark when you perhaps think that you are alone and desperate. Sometimes it may be that."
QM: "I see, I see. What is the symbolism behind the name?"
SB: "(Chuckles) Bats can't see, but they can hear very well."
QM: "Oh secret secret (chuckles)"
SB: "That's it!"
QM: "And they're spiritual somehow (laughs)!"
SB: "Spiritual when they want to be spiritual!"
QM: "Do you write in first person, third person, or both?"
SB: "I think I've written in both."
QM: "How do you get your ideas for your lyrics? Do they come from dreams, thought scapes, visions, and personal experiences?"
SB: "All of the above. Sometimes ideas that I may obsess with for many years turn into a song."
QM: "I understand that Dario, with The Spiritual Bats, was the only opener for The Daucus Karota, Rozz, in Italy. That must have been a magical experience. When was the show and what was the effect on him and the band?"
SB: "That was November, 1994. There was a big impact. Spiritual Bats had split up, they weren't talking to each other for months already and the presence of Rozz Williams brought them back together. It happened all in one day because they had all gone to see the show. They found each other there, somebody asked them if they wanted to open and they hadn't been rehearsing, they hadn't been talking talking to each other for months, they weren't even the instruments of the band, of Daucus Karota, and they played their instruments. Then they started talking to each other. That's a big impact (chuckles)."
QM: "And they stayed after the show too, right, and conversed?"
SB: "Oh yeah some of them did, there was a bit of a language barrier, but you can feel the greatness."
QM: "What did Daucus Karota think of the Spiritual Bats?"
SB: "We would have to ask them (chuckles)!"
QM: "Did you ever?"
SB: "I wouldn't dare (laughs)!"
QM: "(Laughs) I wouldn't dare! How do you think that Death Rock has changed since Rozz's death and what is the personal impact and effect that it's had on your band?"
SB: "He left a great void, emptiness, he left emptiness, that's the initial feeling. That's not all though because there was also this energy that was left by him, this great heritage, great legacy, so the void is not really emptiness and nothingess, there is a richness that he has left all of us."
QM: "We see your music as unique Psychedelic Death Rock. How do you feel about that sentiment?"
SB: "There's some truth in that. Psychedelic music has left an influence in Dario."
QM: "What future projects can we expect from The Spiritual Bat?"
SB: We can't predict the future yet, but you never know, the new album, for sure. There are songs that we play in our live set that are going to be on the new album so Chicago and the other places in the States are going to be the first to hear songs from the next album. We'd love to come back with the full band which is our dream."
QM: "As an added question, starting with Rosy, what would you say just past and present, dead or alive, are your musical influences that have always been with you?"
SB: "Can I mention Mariah Collins, Emma Fitzgerald, and Max Roach's drummer, there's so many. Requiem in White was a soundtrack to my life, to our life."
QM: "And also poetically, who would you say?"
SB: "The Romantics, just a lot of poets, I don't know where to start. Recently influences are from Spanish Literature, very intense. Spanish artists are very surreal, very visionary."
QM: "The last facet, artistically, separate from poetic."
SB: "For me Alchemisti Painters (chuckles). When I discovered Alchemisti Painters I thought, "This is it, I'm not a painter or an artist. The Avant Gardes."
QM: "Now starting with Dario, musically."
SB: "How far back do you want to go? Let's start with very general, our paths have been very different. The Rock matrix, Bauhaus, Susie and the Banshees, Joy Division."
QM: "And artistically?"
SB: "The Renaissance Painters, Baroque, and the great Cathedrals, architecturally."
QM: "And the last facet would be poetically."
SB: "The Avant Gardes, 1900s."
QM: "Very cool. Well, I certainly thank you for this interview. You've been very thorough and obviously have satisfied all my questions, so I thank you. How interesting, this interview will go up in Chain DLK in Rome, you had to come all the way here (laughs)!"
SB: "Well next time you better get yourself to Rome so we can do it there (laughs)!"
QM: "Well we welcome you obviously. In conclusion, what are some tips of surviving to bands that are just starting out?"
SB: "Finding a direction, first of all, and maintaining luciidty."
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Current mood: accomplished
Category: Parties and Nightlife
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
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Current mood: excited
Category: Music
~ THE PLACE TO BE COME AND SUPPORT   AMAZING TALENTS FROM ALL OVER...
AND THE SPIRTIUAL BAT FROM ITALY...
SEE YOU ALL THERE...
I WILL BE ON HAND DOING CD GIVEAWAYS COURTESY OF METROPOLIS RECORDS,
UNDERGROUND INC, VAMPIREFREAKS, NUCLEAR BLAST, CENTURY MEDIA AND
PROJEKT RECORDS AND VARIOUS OTHERS...
COME SUPPORT
~ CD 1334 oF cHICAGO
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Friday, September 04, 2009
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Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: Music
         ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 29TH, 2009 THE MOMENT HAPPENED FINALLY AFTER SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH THIS BAND COMING INTO THIS COUNTRY, PROJECT PITCHFORK PLAYED THE ABBEY IN CHICAGO AFTER A LONG TIME OF BEING HERE. PROJECT PITCHFORK HADN'T BEEN HERE SINCE PLAYING BRIEFLY WITH FRONT 242 QUITE A LONG AEON AGO. IT WAS AMAZING THEY WERE GOING TO FINALLY BE HERE IN THE FLESH. I WAS SO EXCITED AND THIS NITE FINALLY ARRIVED... FIRST OF ALL TO BEGIN MY AWESOME NITE, FROST FROM BLEEDSYNTH AND I GOTH THE CHANCE TO DO A FULL SCALE INTERVIEW WITH PITCHFORK THAT WILL GO INTO REGEN MAGAZINE ALONG WITH A REVIEW OF THEIR KICKASS NEW ALBUM IN CHAINDLK.COM " DREAM TIRESIAS!" THIS ALBUM SHOWS GREAT PROMISE OF HITTING THE DANSE FLOOR CHARTS LIKE MOST CLASSIC PITCHFORK TRACKS HAVE BEFORE AND WILL AGAIN... PITCHFORK WAS THE NICEST FOLKS I EVER HAVE MET AND WERE SO DAMN INFORMATIVE AND FUN. THIS BY FAR HAD TO BE ONE OF MY BEST INTERVIEWS I HAVE EVER DONE BEFORE~! ;) FROST AND I WERE HONOURED TO HAVE CONDUCTED THIS INTERVIEW AND HIGHLY RECOMMEND OTHERS TO DO PRESS FOR THEM. AND SO THE NITE BEGAN...OTHER TALENTS TOOK STAGE WARMING US UP FOR THE TRUE MASTERMINDS AND TRUE FORERUNNERS OF WHAT I FEEL HELP START THE HELLEKTRO/SYNTHPOP/INDEADSTRIAL GENRES. DANCING WAS IN ORDER AND THAT WAS JUST WHAT ALL DID. FRAGMENTATION FROM CHICAGO OPENED WITH A KILLER SET, I; SCINTILLA FROM CHICAGO ROCKED AS USUAL AND A EVEN BIGGER SURPRISE...A BAND NAMED DEVIANT UK FROM THE UK TOOK EVERYONE BY SURPRISE. THE SINGER SOUNDED LIKE A GOTHIC GARY NUMAN AND A MIX OF GOTHMINISTER IN ONE SMOOTH PACKAGE ALL WRAPPED UP IN A BARBWIRE BOW. DEVIANT UK IS TOURING WITH PITCHFORK FOR 4 WEEKS AND JUST PROVED TO KICK ASS LIVE... I HIGHLY RECOMMEND CATCHING HIS ACT ON THIS PITCHFORK TOUR, YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.. . IN BETWEEN ACTS, CYBER GIRLS DANCED SPORTING CYBER FASHIONS TO THE MOST AMAZING DJ SETS OF JUST PLAIN TERROR EBM, ELEKTRO AND INDEADSTRIAL IN OUR FACES AND STOMPIER THAN EVER...THERE WERE VENDORS, FOOD AND SO MUCH INTERACTION AND NETWORKING IT WAS PRACTICALLY A NETWORKING FESTIVAL TO BOOT...PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL OVER TO SUPPORT THIS SHOW SINCE IT WAS WELL THOUGHT OUT AND PUT TOGETHER... THEN THE MOMENT WE WAITIED FOR, PITCHFORK TOOK STAGE APOCALYPTIC, DRIPPING IN WAR PAINT, DUST, BABY POWDER, PAINT AND REMANANTS OF A FALL OUT SHELTER ALL OVER THEM AND ONE BY ONE DID THEIR CLASSICS WE SO LOVE, LIKE " CARNIVAL, TIMEKILLER AND STEEL ROSE " WELL DURING " STEEL ROSE " I GAVE PETER SPILLES STEEL ROSES AND TO HIS SURPRISE, HE SAID HE NEVER RECEIVED ANYTHING LIKE THAT, SO I WAS FLOORED AND HONOURED. HE GRABBED THEM AND PLACED THEM ON THE KEYBOARD IT WAS TRUELY A COOL EXPERIENCE FOR HIM AND I AND ONE IN WHICH HE WILL NEVER FORGET. THE AUDIENCE WAS HOT, SWEATY AND READY FOR ACTION. WE ALL DANCED AND SANG THE LYRICS BACK TO PETER AS HE SCREECHED THEM OUT WITH BLOOD, SWEAT AND FALLOUT REMAINS EVERYWHERE. PETER SING FOR THE HOPE OF THIS NEW DARK FUTURE AND WE WERE READY TO RECIEVE HIS DOCTRINE OF THE DEAD. IT WAS THE MOST MESMERIZING EXPERIENCE AND THERE WASN'T A BODY NOT MOVING AMONGST THE DARKNESS. I SWEATED HALF MY MAKEUP OFF AND DIDN'T HAVE A CARE IN THE WORLD FOR THIS WAS THE NITE I WAITED FOR AND I WAS GOING TO GIVE IT MY ALL AND THAT I DID... ON TOP OF A AMAZING NITE, TO MY SURPRISE, PETER SPILLES FROM PITCHFORK AND HIS COUNTERPARTS, ASKED ME TO DRIVE HIM TO THE CLUB, THIS WAS BY FAR THE BIGGEST HONOUR ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE.. . ALL WAS RIGHT IN THE WORLD AND AS I WAS DRIVING THEM TO THEIR DESINTATION PETER SPILLES DROPPED THE BIGGEST BOMB ON US, HE TOLD US THAT THE TRADITIONAL WAVE GOTHIK TREFFEN WAS STARTED BY HIM AND THE BAND " AND ONE " I WAS COMPLETELY FLOORED AND TO MY ELEMENT OF SURPRISE, I WAS HONOURED TO ACCAIM SUCH KNOWLEDGE I JUST HAD TO SHARE IT WITH YOU PRE MINE AND FROST'S DEBUT OF MY REVIEW IN CHAINDLK AND INTERVIEW IN REGEN ...THIS IS JUST A HINT OF WHAT IS TO SURFACE... ALL THANX GOES TO PITCHFORK AND THE PEOPLE THAT PUT TOGETHER THIS AMAZING EVENT AND MADE MY DREAM COME TRUE... AND SPECIAL THANX TO FROST FOR TAKING PHOTOS... IF YOU MISSED THIS EVENT, YOU TRUELY MISSED OUT AND NEXT TIME YOU SHOULD ALL COME SUPPORT SOMETHING SO GREAT LIKE THIS...THE CLUB WILL ALWAYS BE THERE, THE BAND MIGHT NOT!!! I AM THE MOST FULFILLED NOW... ~ CD 1334 oF cHICAGO
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