While driving to Whole Foods several nights ago before practice, I finally heard a full song from a band that all the kids have been listening to for many months now. I won’t type their name because it hurts too much. There are few things I am less fond of than the intentional misspelling, unless done well in jest. Later, I asked a friend about them.
“They’re really big. A Warped Tour band. I think they’re Christians or something.”
I giggled, “So is that how people are going to describe my band? ‘They’re really big. A Reading Festival band. I think they’re Marxists or something.’ ”
One can only hope.
…and when we play Carling Weekend, I don’t know who’ll be on what instrument. In fact, the next time you see us, I’ll be on guitar and Luke on drums. Wild, huh? Luke is concerned that people will think the drumming boy/strumming girl setup too Giant Drag, but that version of the band no longer exists, Giant Drag having continued as the awesome Annie Hardy. Outside of the former Leftwing/Retone connection and the lineup evolution, our projects have little to do with each other. boxViolet is Luke + Margot, no matter how the live performance is crafted, so it’s pretty lame to have to consider the possibility that lazy people might describe or label us on these most superficial grounds. My response is: who (the eff) cares what people think? Except when a boy has tricked me into forgetting myself momentarily, I am quite faithful to self-definition and self-actualization. ;)
Put simply, in our search for an awesome and devoted drummer, we find ourselves increasingly reticent to add another personality to this project. It's just Luke and I for now, but we're both incredibly passionate people, our Moons in fire signs. In heart, we do not lack.
Down on dumping a disparate element into a rather tasty blend, we were delighted by a bumper sticker as we left the rehearsal space: "My drum machine has more soul than you."
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