Love Potion
George Tabb
tape
Собрались в 2007 году, до этого все музыканты играли в неизвестных никому группах. В 2008 записали первое демо, потом ипишку, которую выпустили на семёрках и сиди. В этом году в группу пришёл второй гитарист, играющий в блекметал виа strychnos и они разродились крутейшей пластинкой, оформление к которой нарисовал небезызвестный Sugi.
Очень шумно, гадкий бурлящий вокал
майспейс
love potion- ejaculator cd 2009_на сд версии имеются треки с демки
love potion- intimacy ep 2010
рекомендую к просмотру
Love Potion - Maloe Melo
http://www.myspace.com/lovepotionfuckyou Big thanks to Sam for filming this one.
www.vimeo.com
Japanese LOVE POTION interview winter 2009
1. Hello. could you start with an introduction to your band? Where
are you from, when did you start together, what’s the main idea behind
the band? What is the career that was active before in other bands?
discography?
Steffen: Kon nichi wa Maeda-san! I’m the drummer and main motivator
for Love Potion. I decided in late 2007 that I was sick and tired of
the same old Copenhagen bands. That everything had become stale, and
it was more like a cosy social club, than an outlet for frustration,
aggression and so forth. I wanted to do a band founded on some sort of
idealistic basis as the New York Dolls, like not giving a fuck, with
focus not so much on playing the right way, but giving it all you got,
and channel some energy. So far we’ve put out a demo tape called Taste
the Love, an EP named Ejaculator which also came out on CD in Japan –
maybe you can tell people about this – haha. Next plan is to do a
limited lathe cut 7” called Intimacy on an American label. Maybe do a
repress of this later on, and then hopefully one day, a crushing full
lenght LP.
Philip: My name is Philip and i play guitar in LP, i was playing (and
still play) in a grindcoreband called Dead instrument, steffen was
playing in Death Token but they were not very active at that time and
he asked me to play guitar in this new band that he wanted to start,
Klaus and Jonas quickly followed as members. I think the idea (if
there is any) behind the band is simply to play fast and violent shows
that are based on energy rather than 100% tight playing, and of course
writing good rock'n'roll.
2.The band name called" LOVE POTION",
It's very interesting. Why do you put this name?
Philip: When we started out we did a brainstorm on names for the band
(I recall names like "Hateful assault" and "Healing Potion" being
mentioned) but i don't remember who thought up the final name. But for
me this name works because it implies something completely different
than what the band actually sounds like, and when people hear the name
first and then hear the music afterwards they're in for a surprise, i
like that.
Steffen: We didn’t have a band name for our first gig. I had been
toying with the idea of naming a band Healing Potion, but it sounded
like a bad 70’s stoner rock band. So we decided to discard this. But
smoking way too much weed, the promoter suggested we took Love Potion
as name, and it seemed like the right thing at the right time, and I
feel today it suits us fine, as some sort of strange oxymoron. Love is
present in the lyrics and music, but mostly in the shape of hate.
3. What are your personal inspirations in music that drove you to form
the alliance of
LOVE POTION and its sound? take big influence and what do play music in?
Klaus: I Think were all inspired by different sounds, which put
together becomes what you could call a unique Love Potion sound. Vocal
wise my main inspiration is Nocturno Culto and Mille from Kreator.
Performance and ego wise, probably Axl Rose, GG and New York Dolls.
Philip: Like Klaus says we all come different backgrounds, For this
band's purpose my guitarheroes are guys like Paul Leary from the
butthole surfers and of course Greg Ginn and Pig champion, outside of
punk i like many different guitar players including Rob Vigna from
Immolation, certainly Rob Morten of Discordance Axis, but also guys
like Marc Ribot and Neil Young are a big influence on me.
Steffen: For sure Discharge, Anti Cimex, Poison Idea, Motorhead, stuff
like this, and like Klaus says New York Dolls were very important for
me when I asked Philip and the others to do a band. But also writers
like Céline, Mishima, Genet and recently George Bataille, Thomas Szasz
are of an inspiration to me, when it comes to creating the Love Potion
universe. I’d say that my inspiration goes far beyond music.
4.Your debut stuff EJACULATOR is
I think that influenced raw Hardcore and some metal.
About what kind of style did you think at first?
Philip: I didn't personally have any idea as to what the record should
sound like, we just kinda did it, but we all like raw hardcore and
metal to some extent as well.
Steffen: I was really tired with the US hardcore sound, and found the
aggressiveness of the old Scandinavian, English and Japanese masters
to be much more appealing. I also wanted to do something else that
didn’t adapt to the crust conformity. I thought, let us mix New York
Dolls with old Scandinavian hardcore and shit like Holocaust in your
head era Extreme Noise Terror. I’m not sure if that’s the way the
music came out, but those were my initial thoughts.
5.As for lyrics, it is questions. I think that there are a lot of
deaths and references of the drug.The opinion of this.
Klaus: Lyrics combine over exaggerating everything, fiction and
personal experience. Lately they have become some weird kinda off
gutter-poetry without much concrete form or meaning. Death, violence,
abuse and nihilism has always been and will always be interesting
topics. As i have no general interest in society, common people,
equality, morality or beliefs, writing political lyrics seems
pointless.
Philip: I just play the guitar.
6.After lost of UNGDOMSHUSET that had been played before
In what place is live usually done in DENMARK?
Philip: they actually have new house now but it is not as good as the
old "ungdomshus", there are still a number of different venues to play
punkshows in copenhagen, but i hear that the venues in Japan are much
better.
Steffen: After the eviction of the old house, we’ve been playing all
over the city. We got banned from the first place we played, which was
this trendy night club.
7.Does it introduce the scene in local ? Whats band play with?
Please tell me your recommend local band?
Klaus: Bands from Copenhagen worth a mention includes: Limepit, which
i myself play in. Which is Noise, influenced by the likes of
Skullflower, Hair Police and Ramleh. Sexdrome which plays primitive
haterock with a Ildjarn edge. Iceage, local teenage nofi indie heroes.
Garotte newborn raw black metal unit. And Undergang aspiring danish
Death Metal hope. And of course Philips other band Dead Instrument who
are without a doubt the best grindcore band since Terrorizer.
Philip: Pretty much what Klaus said, but also bands like dreamers
cloth and family underground who are complete hippies but make some
soothing dolpin sounds.
Steffen: I really don’t have much to add. But Womanhead should play
live again soon.
8.How do you think about Japan?
Especially I ask Steffen.
Why are you very well informed about Japan?
What is your favolite Japanese movie?
8. Klaus: Asia has always been a big interest of mine, Especially
China and Japan. China for all the fantastic culture/mentality, movies
and material arts. And Japan for the crazy history and the maybe most
inspiring music scene in the world. Great Japanese acts include:
Masonna, Hijokaidan, Framtid and Disclose(RIP) For Japanese movies i
have to say most works by Takeshi Kitano and some Miike even thou i
think the later is slightly overrated. But the real milestones of
Asian cinema comes from the hands of Raymond Chow, Sammo Hung, John
Woo and the likes. Lately if have been alot into Donny Yen and Tony
Jah's movies.
Philip: Steffen knows more about Japanese culture than any one else
the band, i was in the hospital a while ago and steffen came by with
Mishima's confessions of a mask, but it was hard to read because i was
on morphine all day long.
I just started reading it again to finnish it this time and i like it
very much. I for one do not think that Miike is an overrated director,
he can make any kind of movie. Audition is one of my favourite horror
films of all time. I have also read and liked a couple of murakami
books but as i understand he is not that popular in Japan because he
is influnced by western litterature and American culture, is this
true?
Steffen: I’ve always been attracted to people, cultures and thoughts
that are uncompromising. I think Japan as a culture used to be like
this, striving for perfection in every possible way. Call it pride or
whatever, that is not so much of my interest what you call it.
Anyways, Yukio Mishima remains to this day one of my favourite
authors, and I try to read whatever he has done that I can get my
hands on. The last thing I read by his hand was his foreword to
Bataille’s novel My Mother. Apart from this I’ve been reading a bit
about the Shinto religion, which I understand was banned as state
religion after WII. The Bushido is also a very fascination read, which
I think compliments the Shinto belief. Like I have told you before, I
think that Japanese culture, and this is said from a corn-fed western
perspective so please bear with me if it seems like total gibberish,
has been on the decline since the American occupation and the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think Mishima deals with this topic of
Japanese identity and spirit very well, probably unlike any other
author I’ve ever read. He’s able to convey this feeling of schism in
the identity. Where to do you belong, and why? I’ve always considered
Japanese culture to be something very special, I’m not entirely sure
why. I guess I enjoy people who take themselves, their culture and art
seriously. Again we return to the uncompromising. That said I really
enjoy Japanese cinema also. My favourite movies got to be the French
Japanese and Mexican production Hiroshima Mon Amour, but Kurosawa is
of course also held in high regards. I recently saw a couple of
Japanese gangster movies, along with Blind Beast from ’69, by Yasuzo
Masumara which was totally mind blowing, beautiful and haunting at the
same time. You should watch this movie if you haven’t already. The
Japanese title is Môjû.
9.What do you do at time other than the band?
Klaus: Chinese Kung Fu and I run a Label plus and dozen or so noise
projects with two friends. Visit www.poshisolation.net to investigate
further
Philip: I hang out with my Biatch. My other band Dead Instrument have
recorded for a 7" and we are trying to get that mixed and mastered and
get it out there, I also go to school, right now i'm supposed to be
writing my bachelor paper on scatology/feces in modern litterature,
it's moving along very slowly.
Steffen: I learn that nothingness is, at the university. Read books
and drink alcohol. Jonas our bass player is a full time tattoo artist,
who never answers his phone or interviews.
10. please tell me your best record and band ever.
Philip: I don't think i can answer this question completely, maybe the
selftitled record from Velvet Underground simply because i have heard
this band from when i was very young and still listen to it a lot...
It's really hard having an all time favourite album.
Steffen: Though one. It changes all the time, but right now I highly
enjoy a record called Blues run the game by Jackson C Frank. And then
of course The Frogs.
11. Please teach the schedule in the future.
Philip: Tour with Encroached next summer in Europe hopefully, new 7"
"INTIMACY" with three songs on it coming out soon, hopefully play lots
of shows before this band selfdestructs.
Steffen: Yes, what Phil said. Would love to go somewhere else and play
than Europe. But somehow nothing ever works out. Maybe some day we’ll
be able to cross the Atlantic, maybe not. But I guess we’ll be seeing
you next summer, here in Europe?
12.please hope a word the audience and punks in Japan.
Klaus:. Hope to be able to visit your truly inspiring country soon,
and lay off the meth until then ok? Japanese music scene has been
plagued by to many tragic premature deaths in recent years.
Philip: Stay out of trouble.
Steffen: KANPAI!!!!!!!!!!
Узнать больше: http://www.myspace.com/lovepotionfuckyou/blog#ixzz10rot6S8c
1. Hello. could you start with an introduction to your band? Where
are you from, when did you start together, what’s the main idea behind
the band? What is the career that was active before in other bands?
discography?
Steffen: Kon nichi wa Maeda-san! I’m the drummer and main motivator
for Love Potion. I decided in late 2007 that I was sick and tired of
the same old Copenhagen bands. That everything had become stale, and
it was more like a cosy social club, than an outlet for frustration,
aggression and so forth. I wanted to do a band founded on some sort of
idealistic basis as the New York Dolls, like not giving a fuck, with
focus not so much on playing the right way, but giving it all you got,
and channel some energy. So far we’ve put out a demo tape called Taste
the Love, an EP named Ejaculator which also came out on CD in Japan –
maybe you can tell people about this – haha. Next plan is to do a
limited lathe cut 7” called Intimacy on an American label. Maybe do a
repress of this later on, and then hopefully one day, a crushing full
lenght LP.
Philip: My name is Philip and i play guitar in LP, i was playing (and
still play) in a grindcoreband called Dead instrument, steffen was
playing in Death Token but they were not very active at that time and
he asked me to play guitar in this new band that he wanted to start,
Klaus and Jonas quickly followed as members. I think the idea (if
there is any) behind the band is simply to play fast and violent shows
that are based on energy rather than 100% tight playing, and of course
writing good rock'n'roll.
2.The band name called" LOVE POTION",
It's very interesting. Why do you put this name?
Philip: When we started out we did a brainstorm on names for the band
(I recall names like "Hateful assault" and "Healing Potion" being
mentioned) but i don't remember who thought up the final name. But for
me this name works because it implies something completely different
than what the band actually sounds like, and when people hear the name
first and then hear the music afterwards they're in for a surprise, i
like that.
Steffen: We didn’t have a band name for our first gig. I had been
toying with the idea of naming a band Healing Potion, but it sounded
like a bad 70’s stoner rock band. So we decided to discard this. But
smoking way too much weed, the promoter suggested we took Love Potion
as name, and it seemed like the right thing at the right time, and I
feel today it suits us fine, as some sort of strange oxymoron. Love is
present in the lyrics and music, but mostly in the shape of hate.
3. What are your personal inspirations in music that drove you to form
the alliance of
LOVE POTION and its sound? take big influence and what do play music in?
Klaus: I Think were all inspired by different sounds, which put
together becomes what you could call a unique Love Potion sound. Vocal
wise my main inspiration is Nocturno Culto and Mille from Kreator.
Performance and ego wise, probably Axl Rose, GG and New York Dolls.
Philip: Like Klaus says we all come different backgrounds, For this
band's purpose my guitarheroes are guys like Paul Leary from the
butthole surfers and of course Greg Ginn and Pig champion, outside of
punk i like many different guitar players including Rob Vigna from
Immolation, certainly Rob Morten of Discordance Axis, but also guys
like Marc Ribot and Neil Young are a big influence on me.
Steffen: For sure Discharge, Anti Cimex, Poison Idea, Motorhead, stuff
like this, and like Klaus says New York Dolls were very important for
me when I asked Philip and the others to do a band. But also writers
like Céline, Mishima, Genet and recently George Bataille, Thomas Szasz
are of an inspiration to me, when it comes to creating the Love Potion
universe. I’d say that my inspiration goes far beyond music.
4.Your debut stuff EJACULATOR is
I think that influenced raw Hardcore and some metal.
About what kind of style did you think at first?
Philip: I didn't personally have any idea as to what the record should
sound like, we just kinda did it, but we all like raw hardcore and
metal to some extent as well.
Steffen: I was really tired with the US hardcore sound, and found the
aggressiveness of the old Scandinavian, English and Japanese masters
to be much more appealing. I also wanted to do something else that
didn’t adapt to the crust conformity. I thought, let us mix New York
Dolls with old Scandinavian hardcore and shit like Holocaust in your
head era Extreme Noise Terror. I’m not sure if that’s the way the
music came out, but those were my initial thoughts.
5.As for lyrics, it is questions. I think that there are a lot of
deaths and references of the drug.The opinion of this.
Klaus: Lyrics combine over exaggerating everything, fiction and
personal experience. Lately they have become some weird kinda off
gutter-poetry without much concrete form or meaning. Death, violence,
abuse and nihilism has always been and will always be interesting
topics. As i have no general interest in society, common people,
equality, morality or beliefs, writing political lyrics seems
pointless.
Philip: I just play the guitar.
6.After lost of UNGDOMSHUSET that had been played before
In what place is live usually done in DENMARK?
Philip: they actually have new house now but it is not as good as the
old "ungdomshus", there are still a number of different venues to play
punkshows in copenhagen, but i hear that the venues in Japan are much
better.
Steffen: After the eviction of the old house, we’ve been playing all
over the city. We got banned from the first place we played, which was
this trendy night club.
7.Does it introduce the scene in local ? Whats band play with?
Please tell me your recommend local band?
Klaus: Bands from Copenhagen worth a mention includes: Limepit, which
i myself play in. Which is Noise, influenced by the likes of
Skullflower, Hair Police and Ramleh. Sexdrome which plays primitive
haterock with a Ildjarn edge. Iceage, local teenage nofi indie heroes.
Garotte newborn raw black metal unit. And Undergang aspiring danish
Death Metal hope. And of course Philips other band Dead Instrument who
are without a doubt the best grindcore band since Terrorizer.
Philip: Pretty much what Klaus said, but also bands like dreamers
cloth and family underground who are complete hippies but make some
soothing dolpin sounds.
Steffen: I really don’t have much to add. But Womanhead should play
live again soon.
8.How do you think about Japan?
Especially I ask Steffen.
Why are you very well informed about Japan?
What is your favolite Japanese movie?
8. Klaus: Asia has always been a big interest of mine, Especially
China and Japan. China for all the fantastic culture/mentality, movies
and material arts. And Japan for the crazy history and the maybe most
inspiring music scene in the world. Great Japanese acts include:
Masonna, Hijokaidan, Framtid and Disclose(RIP) For Japanese movies i
have to say most works by Takeshi Kitano and some Miike even thou i
think the later is slightly overrated. But the real milestones of
Asian cinema comes from the hands of Raymond Chow, Sammo Hung, John
Woo and the likes. Lately if have been alot into Donny Yen and Tony
Jah's movies.
Philip: Steffen knows more about Japanese culture than any one else
the band, i was in the hospital a while ago and steffen came by with
Mishima's confessions of a mask, but it was hard to read because i was
on morphine all day long.
I just started reading it again to finnish it this time and i like it
very much. I for one do not think that Miike is an overrated director,
he can make any kind of movie. Audition is one of my favourite horror
films of all time. I have also read and liked a couple of murakami
books but as i understand he is not that popular in Japan because he
is influnced by western litterature and American culture, is this
true?
Steffen: I’ve always been attracted to people, cultures and thoughts
that are uncompromising. I think Japan as a culture used to be like
this, striving for perfection in every possible way. Call it pride or
whatever, that is not so much of my interest what you call it.
Anyways, Yukio Mishima remains to this day one of my favourite
authors, and I try to read whatever he has done that I can get my
hands on. The last thing I read by his hand was his foreword to
Bataille’s novel My Mother. Apart from this I’ve been reading a bit
about the Shinto religion, which I understand was banned as state
religion after WII. The Bushido is also a very fascination read, which
I think compliments the Shinto belief. Like I have told you before, I
think that Japanese culture, and this is said from a corn-fed western
perspective so please bear with me if it seems like total gibberish,
has been on the decline since the American occupation and the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think Mishima deals with this topic of
Japanese identity and spirit very well, probably unlike any other
author I’ve ever read. He’s able to convey this feeling of schism in
the identity. Where to do you belong, and why? I’ve always considered
Japanese culture to be something very special, I’m not entirely sure
why. I guess I enjoy people who take themselves, their culture and art
seriously. Again we return to the uncompromising. That said I really
enjoy Japanese cinema also. My favourite movies got to be the French
Japanese and Mexican production Hiroshima Mon Amour, but Kurosawa is
of course also held in high regards. I recently saw a couple of
Japanese gangster movies, along with Blind Beast from ’69, by Yasuzo
Masumara which was totally mind blowing, beautiful and haunting at the
same time. You should watch this movie if you haven’t already. The
Japanese title is Môjû.
9.What do you do at time other than the band?
Klaus: Chinese Kung Fu and I run a Label plus and dozen or so noise
projects with two friends. Visit www.poshisolation.net to investigate
further
Philip: I hang out with my Biatch. My other band Dead Instrument have
recorded for a 7" and we are trying to get that mixed and mastered and
get it out there, I also go to school, right now i'm supposed to be
writing my bachelor paper on scatology/feces in modern litterature,
it's moving along very slowly.
Steffen: I learn that nothingness is, at the university. Read books
and drink alcohol. Jonas our bass player is a full time tattoo artist,
who never answers his phone or interviews.
10. please tell me your best record and band ever.
Philip: I don't think i can answer this question completely, maybe the
selftitled record from Velvet Underground simply because i have heard
this band from when i was very young and still listen to it a lot...
It's really hard having an all time favourite album.
Steffen: Though one. It changes all the time, but right now I highly
enjoy a record called Blues run the game by Jackson C Frank. And then
of course The Frogs.
11. Please teach the schedule in the future.
Philip: Tour with Encroached next summer in Europe hopefully, new 7"
"INTIMACY" with three songs on it coming out soon, hopefully play lots
of shows before this band selfdestructs.
Steffen: Yes, what Phil said. Would love to go somewhere else and play
than Europe. But somehow nothing ever works out. Maybe some day we’ll
be able to cross the Atlantic, maybe not. But I guess we’ll be seeing
you next summer, here in Europe?
12.please hope a word the audience and punks in Japan.
Klaus:. Hope to be able to visit your truly inspiring country soon,
and lay off the meth until then ok? Japanese music scene has been
plagued by to many tragic premature deaths in recent years.
Philip: Stay out of trouble.
Steffen: KANPAI!!!!!!!!!!
Узнать больше: http://www.myspace.com/lovepotionfuckyou/blog#ixzz10rot6S8c
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