Which is the most fascinating thing about being in the music business for so long?
The best thing---- what I love about being in the music business, the thing I miss when I' m away from it--- is playing music. I die for music. I also love meeting people. I love travelling although it's exhausting.
I still consider it a privilege to play music, meet people and travel. A privilege we struggled for. We had to struggle to earn our position in the music world.Something one can easily forget once they become successful.
On the other hand which is the most disappointing part of the music industry?
The most disappointing thing is the music industry itself. - The professional and commercial side of the music industry -. The music media have taken over, defining what is in fashion and what is not, in an overbearing manner , in a way that has little to do with music, it's roots and art for that matter.
How do you deal with the commercial side of music?
We just deal with it. We have no management, we don't want to involve with any major label and most issues are handled by people we trust. We will have to learn more than we would want to, about how the music industry works. But it's necessary. I mean, even the Artist has to face economic matters as business. Then you pull the curtain and you're back to your music.
Although yours has been a long road up until now, your new Creatures Album reveals the zest of undying teenagers.
We always try to approach things as if we were a brand new band. and I think this time we came real close. we produced this album very quickly and we did it the simple way. That was our concept. We feel that Anima Animus triggers a new beginning.
Having all this experience, the most difficult thing is to forget. To forget everything that makes things easy.
It's like forgetting your signature which you have grown accustomed to. The most difficult job for a musician is to get rid of their refinement and their trademarks and become a little more instinctive and direct, without sacrificing their identity.
That doesn't mean we renounce our past. No. We are proud of it. But we can't linge to the past 'cause every album would be the same, predictable. It's time to stop looking back and start looking ahead.
Who would you like to do covers of your songs?
Wow!.... Tοm Waits. Οr Diamanda Galas, possibly. She's unique. I think that an interesting tour would include Diamanda Galas, Nina Hagen and Siouxsie, each one crazier than the other on stage.
Do Creatures play Banshees' Songs?
We are thinking about covering some instances from the Banshees history on this tour, the ones that could fit in, but the set is primarily based on The new Creatures Album.We'll see how it goes. We haven't played Banshees' songs, well known Banshees' songs, ever since the Banshees ceased to exist. We don't reproduce the new album's sound on stage. We just let the concerts unfold on their own. With that perspective in mind different things happen on stage each night.
When a tour is over do you get depressed?
Yes always-------- I also get depressed in the middle of a tour as well. You get used to a more alert way of life, concerts one after the other, hotels, trips, you get so used to being steamed up that when it's over you find it hard to leave that way of working and living. The same routine, concert, hotel, trip, becomes essential and you can't easily cut away from it.
At the same time, of course, as no small everyday detail gets in your way, when you're on tour, you are totally absorbed by music. Everything you can think of, has to do with your art. So, in a way, tours could easily be the most creative time for a musician.
And it's only natural to get addicted to tours and their upbeat rhythm, to drinking, to drugs even.
Every time a tour is over, your body expects the adrenaline to run through it, the way it used to during the tour.
That's probably why so many artists take up drinking or drugs to make amends. It goes with the job. Take the big stars for instance. Is it easy to stop being Rock Gods and have the crowds cheer them and start doing dishes at home?
There is no button that transforms you Instantly from mass symbol to man, let's say, Robert Plant, doing chores around the house. Sorry Robert!