Thursday, 1 September 2011

BLANK REALM- FULLY SICK.

Blank Realm is, in case you don’t know, the best band in Brisbane. Simultaneously  the ‘coolest’ band to come out of our little town, and the most unpretentious folks you’ll ever meet, Luke, Sarah, and Dan Spencer, and Luke Walsh a.k.a Dubsie have progressed from an experimental noise band of relative anonymity into something catchier and much more popular, while still retaining all of the underground appeal, originality, and down to earth good vibes that attracted their fans in the first place. PGL spoke to Sarah and Dan over some champagne and cheesy toast.

PGL – Describe Blank Realm in the two funniest words you can?
Dan - um….

PGL– hurry up.

D – that’s a lot of pressure to be funny.
Sarah - horny
D- live and horny.

PGL– what’s the sickest thing about being in Blank Realm?
S- babes.
D- rockin’ it.

PGL–  you guys recently went to America for South by South West. What’s the tastiest thing you ate over there?
D- buffalo hot wings.
D- I went on the sides tour of America. It was like recreating Sizzler.
D-raspberry cheesecake at Juniors in New York was good.
S- and soul foods.

PGL – what’s your favourite thing on the Jo Jos menu?
D – chips with mushroom sauce.
S – chocco mousse.
D- chocco mouse? What do you mean?
S- they do chocco mouse there.
D- oh. I…. wouldn’t.

PGL – what a snob.

PGL – do you think Dan is a snob?
S- absolutely.

PGL– do you get a lot of babes coming to your shows?
S- the boys do.

PGL – not so many fellahs?
S- maybe the fellahs just don’t come up and talk to me.

PGL –  did you used to have less babes?
D- yeah. I think maybe when you’re an experimental band or whatever we were, babes don’t come.

PGL – do you reckon when we started coming to  your shows the babes followed because we were there?
D- I think you’re definitely babe trend setters.

PGL –  who’s the funniest band member stoned?
D- EVERYBODY knows the answer to that.
S- the answer is we don’t. We don’t smoke the love.
D- it would be the person who asked how marshmallows grow.
S- oh yeah…. They grow in thatches.

PGL –  who’s the funniest band member drunk?
D- probably Sarah.
S- or Luke? He dances more.

PGL –  what’s the  drunkest or stonedest you’ve ever been?
D – that time I tried to make everyone cut up their credit cards.
S- probably the time I greened out in the dug-out at UQ and Dubsie had to drive me home.

PGL – if you could be a mixture of three different celebrities bodies, faces, and personalities, what three celebs would you be?
D- I would have Grace Jones face, Homer Simpsons body, and the personality of Captain Beefheart.
S- that’d be kinda weird to have a yellow body and a black face.

PGL –  who do you think is hotter, Bill Pullman or Bill Paxton?
D- I can’t tell the difference to be honest.

PGL –  our sources tell us you once watched Twister in slow motion. How funny was Bill Paxton in slow motion?
D – that was his best work. He was amazing in slow motion.

PGL – was it scary?
D – it was kind of scary how much I laughed at it. I thought I was actually gonna perish from laughter.

PGL – what’s the funniest thing you’ve ever watched on Youtube?
D- probably a video of this guys collection of VCR’s. He had himself superimposed over it with a green screen and had a German bowl cut.
S- my classic Youtube is Smell yo’ Dick. We once sung that to Harriet (from Circle pit, Southern Comfort) instead of ‘happy birthday’ when she turned 21.

PGL –  do you guys think Prince is a babe?
D- no.
S – no.

PGL – Prince is a Jehovahs witness. If he came door knockin’ at your house and said “turn to Jesus” would you do it just because he’s Prince?
D- no, but I would try and trick him into singing a hit.

PGL – we only have one other question but can’t read it. we think it says…. Um….so, did you…. you would go…. along when…. Mit your hee…..? What do you have to say about that?
S- absolutely.
D- definitely. No doubt. That’s the best question yet.

PGL – any shout outs?
S- shouting out to my man!
S- we’ll just shout out to the people of Syria.
D- what the f*ck? I just want to shout out to all my brothers on the inside.

PGL – you KNOW  we're gonna print that!
Laughter.

Blank Realms latest album Deja What? is available through Rocking Horse Records or the band themselves. Hit them up online, and check them out around the usual Brisbane haunts.

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