September ??, 1991, New York

Sep ??, 1991 – New York

Interviewer(s)

Everett True

Interviewee(s)

Kim Deal

Sources

Medium	Publisher	Date of Issue
Print	Melody Maker	04/04/1992

Transcript – Not finished yet

“Bloody Mary?” asks Kelley.

Thank you.

“Do you have a straw?” asks Tanya.

Kelley hails the waitress in the New York restaurant we’re drinking in. The waitress ignores us for several minutes, finally realises we’re not going to go away, and comes over. Without straws.

“What are you looking at?” Josephine asks me.

A fly or something in my drink. Is it an olive? It seems to be moving. Laughter. Someone lights a cigarette. I start spooning the vodka off the top of my drink with a tea-spoon.

“You’re not going to start choking again, are you?” asks Tanya.

The Breeders – Kim Deal, Tanya Donelly, Josephine Wiggs, Brit and Kim’s sister, Kelley – are back. One Pixie, one ex-Throwing Muse, one ex Perfect Disaster, one Slint and one computer programmer. Not so much a supergroup as a super group.

There are three main differences between the band who released “Pod” in 1990, and this latest incarnation. One: Kelley has been added to the line-up, so The Breeders are currently blessed with three female lead guitarists/singers. Two: Brit, for reasons best known to himself, is now calling himself Mike Hunt. (Incidentally, check out his band’s 1990 release, the awesome “Spiderland”. You won’t regret it.) Three: their sound is far lusher than before.

Next?

Last summer, The Breeders came together in Kim Deal’s hometown of Dayton, Ohio, to rehearse a handful of her songs and one cover version. Between watching old episodes of “Star Trek” and “The Avengers”, that is. The rehearsals went so well, they figured they may as well record them. At the time of this interview, they’ve been booked into a New York studio for a couple of weeks.

Today is their last day, and they’re out celebrating. Well, Tanya, Kelley, Brit and Jo are. Kim’s in the studio, putting final touches to the vocal on their version of The Who’s “So Sad About Us”. We don’t let the thought of her working her ass off deter us from running up a bar bill of close to $200. We have a job to do, us.

Whose idea was it to reform The Breeders? I thought you were meant to be a one-off.

“It wasn’t really a decision. I just woke up one morning and I was in Dayton,” laughs Tanya.

“And it’s been a long time, too,” adds Brit. “I can’t imagine two months compared to 20 days. It blows my mind. The last time we were together it was two months – not that it was hard or anything.”

Did you seclude yourselves? Did you hire a villa in the middle of nowhere and hang out with each other exclusively?

“We did for ‘Pod’, but for this one, no,” replies Tanya. “We’re in New York!”

“The first time was like a Godsend of things falling… “Brit begins, before being interrupted by a stilted explosion to his left.

I’m choking on my Bloody Mary.

The assembled company collapse in hysterics.