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Artist Interviews
Q&A: Gold Blood
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 19 August 2010
Gold Blood is a collaboration between PhD student Emile Bojesen and keyboard enthusiast Michael Anthony Wright. They both partake in other music projects, so Emile is better known as the former frontman of hardcore band Chariots or for his current noise-rock band The Good Wife, while Michael is already making electronic music under the name Brassica. Coming together as a result of their shared enthusiasm for pop, post-punk, improvisation and rock n roll, their ‘Twilight Language’ EP is out now on Human Shield Records, and they are set to play at London’s Tram & Social on 27 Aug, as well as dates in Manchester and Newcastle. Ahead of their gigs, we spoke to both Emile and Michael to ask the Same Six Questions.
Q1 How did you start out making music?
Emile: I never did. I started yelling into a mic when I was about thirteen and haven’t stopped since.
Michael: Aged fourteen, bass guitar. Began with metal bands, then hardcore, then ‘arty’ hardcore, then art, then now.
Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Emile: For me? Aesthetico-politically speaking, Jacques Ranciere and Michel Foucault, and in a more personal way, Jacques Derrida and Søren Kierkegaard, as well as the economic crisis (more on this, some day soon), a love of life, and an inability to sit still.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
Michael: Hit the record button / play like a child / resist ‘paralysis from analysis’ / sift and sort / frame / move onto next song.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Emile: The Situationists (despite their junk philosophy), almost everyone from Black Mountain College, a stack of philosophers and writers, singer-performers like Laurie Anderson and Grace Jones, as well as smart bands like Nation Of Ulysses, Orchid, Black Flag and Oxbow.
Michael: Aphex, Hepworth, Bojesen, Renault, Eno, Emin, Ozrics, Bruford, Mum.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Emile: Forget everything else, isn’t this how you REALLY feel?
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
Emile: For people to get it, in every sense
MORE>> www.myspace.com/goldbloodband
