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Lazaro's Dog.
Some interviews are boring: you sit there just wanting to do something better (like, say, watching paint dry). But once you have had an interview with Lazaro's Dog you will like feel nothing will be the same again. As soon as Dave "Pinna" Culpin started talking it became the funniest interview ever.
From a cover band to his own band and Triple J radio stardom
thanks to Home Entertainment System, Pinna told me about
their success and assured me they have not changed a bit. Lazaro's
Dog are set to destroy the world... er, that should read "get
their music out to the world" (damn, their secret's out).
"There is a bit of everything on there, there is five different guys, with five different tastes and we just added a bit to it," Pinna shrugs. "I don't think we meant to do it like this, we just stumbled on it. Vic [Pisani] and I started out in a cover band called Jellyfish Sandwich, we did pretty well then, we just got bored with playing other people's music, and that sort of attitude carried on to this one. We kept the fun bit going."
When asked what inspires their songs, Pinna pauses. "I would
say 'life experiences,' but then don't ask me about the song
The Things That You Find Up Your Arse: that's not my life
experience. It's dedicated to a couple of nurses we knew and
they told us about some things that they found while working.
But with the song Fuck And Be Friends: if any guy can
listen to that and relate to that, and especially the part about
the sex, is good. I don't want anything else; then I'll be happy
that I have done my job." And the song Afro Muff? "It
was written in five minutes and was about when we were on tour
and acquired some seventies vintage porn."
So once that burst of inspiration comes, what's the process from there? "I don't think we have one, that's the scary element to the band: it's very there-and-then or it could be something we talked about five minutes ago, and that's it. It's not very deep, this band," he giggles. "It's very superficial. If it takes more then three minutes we move on to the next thing. It's for people with short attention spans, of course we put ourselves in that category."
So if the band have such short attention spans, why has it talken almost two years for their debut album 'Triple Platinum' to come out? "Laziness, mis-communication, I don't know," he shrugs. "We were really casual about it, I think that's also another reason why there is twenty-four tracks on the album."
The artwork for the CD has a strong Seventies theme, including a lot of period photographs with the subject's heads replaced by those of the band. One picture that made me laugh especially hard was that of a woman in a short skirt and top, but with Corey Krill's head. "Nah they're real pictures, they're real," Pinna insists. "Nah, just joking. We just say they're real shots - but the pic of Corey as the girl is really him, that's his Saturday Night job."
As for the future... "Well, we want to tour Australia but only
if we get airplay," Pinna asserts. "We actually heard The
Things That You Find Up Your Arse on three-d radio a couple
days ago and it didn't sound too bad. But after we have had
the tour of Australia we want to tour Ireland."
Ireland? "Don't ask me why we want to, we just do. And we're thinking of having break dancers at the start because we can't do it."
Robby Anderson
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Lazaro's Dog launch 'Triple Platinum'
at Fowlers Live on Fri 23 April, and 'Triple Platinum'
is out now - see Prize Frenzy(tm) for giveaways. |
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