Thank You For Clapping


Rockzone - TMF Extra

from Dutch TV-broadcast on TMF, 30 April 2001
Interview and live-footage from Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)
21 March 2001

[part of the Clogger video-clip is shown]

DEE: We all just bring ideas in from each other. We kind of pick and choose what is going to work and what is not going to work. Hopefully agree upon everything. We just keep playing it, till everyone is happy ... until it feels good to everyone.
There is not that much discussion about it or even that much thought about it. We just do, we just play it ... everybody just kind of knows when it is right.

[part of the Clogger video-clip is shown]

DEE: Life is spooky to me. Things that I deal with everyday ... things within myself ... things in society, ... everywhere. But at the same time I have hope ... that it's not going to overcome me. So, I just reflect that in my music, I guess.
And I also like the sound of spooky music. [laughs]

[part of the Splinters video-clip is shown]

Pascal Humbert: Well, the video was just a simple idea. A friend of us pulled all those images together from old archives-images. Just trying to keep it simple and (fitting to the ...) lyric.

[part of the Splinters video-clip is shown]

DEE: Most of the songs are stories about things that happened in my family ... in my immediate family or distant relatives. Things that are very secretive and that you don't want to tell everybody.
But I wanted to sing about these in a certain way. I just kind of shrouded everything and made it kind of secretive. And I also like the way it sounded; "Secret South".

[part of the live version of Wayfaring Stranger of the Melkweg-show is shown]

DEE: It is different every night, for the most part for me. The songs themselves kind of force to be in a certain mood or give a certain amount of energy out. They kind of dictate the energy of the show ... the lyrics and the music ... and the mood of the music itself. We just let the music do what it does.

Pascal: The nature of the music we play can't just be played lightly. I think you have to go a bit deeper ... to play it. As soon as you do that the response comes from the public, which is different from one place to the other sometimes. Still it gives something back to us ... we can keep pumping ... those feelings from deep below and inside.

DEE: Basically we just try to play our parts properly ... pay attention to each song and to make sure it sounds the way it suppose to sound, and it is played the way it's suppose to be played.
We don't really have any goal for the show other than just doing our job well.

Pascal: Nothing is thought off this way ... it's just the way we are. There is some contact between us that we know we are in touch with each other. The 4 of us know that.
For the rest of the public: "No, it's not a show that ..." It is not what we do best. It's not that we are shy or anything ... the music as I said is coming from inside and reflects us coming from the inside from the crowd, I guess ... but it is where the intensity of our music comes from. The fewer contacts there is, as far as I am concerned, ... can be more disturbing than anything. I keep my face more to the floor.

[American Wheeze - live version of the Melkweg-show is broadcasted]
[I seen what I saw - live version of the Melkweg-show is broadcasted]



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