We're trying to put together other territories right now. We have a release date in Australia with Inertia on the same date. The idea was that we wanted to name the record after a county we've never been to before hoping that that would get us to that country, which is why we didn't call it Afghanistan. What is the origin of the name Switzerland? We're all so acclimated to being on the road that having so much time off is weird. I talked with the other guys one the phone and we've had five weeks off and no one knows what to do with their time. Everything is solid and we're all into it. We're already talking about doing a fourth record. They've all been in the band for close to three years now and Mike's been in the band since February 2005. Were there any line up changes in the past year? Tait's got a song, Nash has got a song, and the other two guys have a song. Was this album more collaborative with the other band members?Īll of the other musicians, with the exception of Mike, our drummer, wrote the music for a song and I wrote the rest.
With Metropolis, we got to do the thirteen songs we wanted to do, turned it in, and they're putting it out.
We had to put Radio Ga-Ga on Senor Smoke it was a condition of the record deal. With Senor Smoke, we weren't in the position where we could make the record we wanted to make. When we did Fire they were expecting five or six, and when we went to Warner for Senor Smoke they expected another Gay Bar. This was the first time that we didn't have an expectation of a big radio hit. How did your approach to this album compare to Fire and Senor Smoke? We'll bust out a few of them and then, when we go out in the fall, we'll hopefully do them all. We're officially done touring for Senor Smoke. We're hoping to do a few of them this summer. Should people seeing you before September 12th expect to hear some songs off the new album? I think when people hear it, they'll wonder what it is, but it'll grow on you and it might be your favorite record that we've done. One of them has a Journey feel and there's a Latin Salsa number. If you're looking for dancing, this may not be your record, but there are some rockers on there.
There's no Gay Bar, Dance Epidemic, or anything that's going to make people want to dance. It's a bit subtler than the other two records. We think it's the best thing we've ever done. He hasn't said no to anything that we want to do for this record, including making videos. He signed us and Mindless Self Indulgence.
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He came up and asked me what I think our situation was, and I said, "I think we're going to be free agents again." He gave us his card, we went to his website, and thought, "Wow, this is kind of unusual." He's in a situation where he's been that goth/industrial label for a long time and he just wants to expand. The label head Dave Heckman came to our show in San Francisco and I didn't know that he had a label. How did Senor Smoke find a home with Metropolis Records ? KMFDM, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, and Electric Six. This man was rock incarnate! That man was Dick Valentine. Then came the mustachioed Dance Commander, giving out the order for fun. A man in short shorts was cavorting about his house, wreaking havoc and fueled solely by the urge to rock. I found out about Electric Six in 2003 from the last place one would expect to learn anything about music: MTV.