1990-xx-xx-Martin-Aston
?? ??, 1990 – Telephone Interview
Interviewer(s)
Martin Aston
Interviewee(s)
Kim Deal
Tanya Donelly
Josephine Wiggs
Sources
| Medium | Publisher | Date of Issue |
|---|---|---|
| The Catalogue | 05/??/1990 |
Transcript – Not finished yet
1) Why did you agree to join the Breeders?
Josephine: Having heard The Pixies only six months before we formed, coming to them rather late, I’d say, I thought they were a really good band, and if anybody had asked me what band I’d like to play with if I wasn’t already in a band, I’d have said them. I met Kim in the summer in Frankfurt and we ended up spending the rest of the evening together after The Pixies played and had a real laugh. When this proposition came up, it sounded really good. So it’s based on a musical and personal point of view.
Tanya: The conception of this whole thing was Kim and I running round the disco really drunk one night, saying we were going to write a disco song and make a lot of money, but it obviously ended up evolving a lot further than that. It took about 18 months to get it together because of our schedules but we’d always wanted to do stuff together. The format changed about a million times though but we finally did connect. Man. Kim’s one of my heroes and she’s an incredible songwriter and I wanted to see if I could do something else besides The Muses.
Kim: I don’t…know. I guess at the time, Tanya was there, and we thought it was a good idea. I don’t know that we really joined…we joined together. I’m a fan of Tanya’s, I like to sing more, because I have a lovely voice…it was a time off and I was really getting bored. And it was in the summer, you know how that is, you think you’re hot shit in the summer.
2) a) What’s the question you’re expecting everyone to ask?
Josephine: I suppose it would be ‘are they going to make another record, is it a one-off or is it going to continue?
Tanya: How it’s different from working with The Muses, for which I have absolutely no answer to, so please don’t ask that.
Kim: Why did I join The Breeders. The second one would be, ‘does that mean The Pixies have broken up?’
2) b) Now answer it.
Josephine: I can only answer it from my point of view and that is that I really hope that we do make another, but that it will depend on a lot of other things in the world, like other peoples’ commitments.
Tanya: No I won’t! Ah, I have more space with Kim to fool around. The songs are less structured so there’s more room to breathe, kind of, which is really nice.
Kim: No.
3) What did you do last night?
Josephine: I was writing out some backing vocals and making notes.
Tanya: I finished making these demos and then I went to a bar and drank some alcohol with my new bass player Fred Abong and drummer David Narcizio and this girl who’s name I don’t know.
Kim: I learnt a bass line for a surf song to record in the studio today for The Pixies. It’s a cover song off a CD of 20 of the greatest surf songs, called ‘Cecilia Ann’ by The Surftones. I shouldn’t be telling you this. We’ll do it on the album if it turns out good.
4) Your favourite Breeders lyric?
Josephine: (laughs) If I tell you, Kim will absolutely kill me. No, I can’t do it! We’re friends. Alright, just say, “it lives.”
Why would Kim kill you?
Josephine: Because it’s an in-joke.
Tanya: I’m always teasing Kim about, “it lives, despite the knives internal” because I think it’s hysterical, but I think my favourite one is, “your soft belly busts and glows.”
Kim: “Chime on, rain, wet and ankle, toes or two, sweep the other drops on your head, just like it did today”, cos she’s in heaven and I think that’s just so sweet. But I can’t have one that long! You’ve got to tell me? Did either of the other girls say, “it lives, despite the knives internal”? We’re going to name our music publishing company that if we can. It’s so bad, the worst lyric ever written by anybody in the world. It’s about an abortion that lives.
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