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In partnership with Rogue PR, we bring you one more interview, this time with the band Non Stop Erotic Cabaret.
Timmy Faith (TF) and Damo Devotion (DD) are Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, a musical duo from Yorkshire in the north of England, who make memorable, danceable, singalongable synthpop songs about life, the universe, and everything.
Check out our conversation below:
1 - How did you start the band?
TF: We met at a music festival, got on really well, and Damo offered me a slot at one
of his club nights.
DD: I didn’t actually thing he would take me up on the offer, but he did, and he was
actually pretty awesome.
TF: We started doing remixes and mashups in my studio during the week to play out
on a weekend, and then progressed to making our own music.
DD: That’s how Non Stop Erotic Cabaret came to be.
2 - Can the current moment be considered the best of the band?
DD: Every day, in every way, we are getting better and better.
TF: The more we work together, the better our tracks become, and this year,
because of the pandemic, we have had plenty of time to work on new tracks due to
the lack of opportunities to play live.
DD: We’ve written and recorded around 30 ne tracks since March, which has to be
some kind of world record.
TF: We are also working on new visuals for our live shows, and a huge interactive
robot called Marvin who will hopefully join us on stage next year.
DD: If we can work out a way to get him out of Timmy’s basement.
3 - Who are your biggest influences?
TF: I have been influenced by a lot of the Manchester indie rock bands like Happy
Mondays and New Order, whilst Damo prefers pop music like OMD and Prince.
DD: We do have very different tastes and influences, but the name of our band is the
title of the only album we both own: Non Stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell.
TF: They are still one of the greatest synthpop bands ever created, and they came
from Leeds, which is where we both living and working when we first met.
DD: Our music is a combination of all the things that we love: drum machines, fat
analogue synth sounds overlaid with thoughtful vocals which explore the human
condition in all its magnificence. What more could you possible want?
4 - Speaking of creation process, how much thought is there before creating
new material? Is there a plan or do you let ideas flow naturally?
TF: Despite living just up the road from one another, we work separately in our own
studios, and then bounce ideas back and forth via the internet until they are finished.
DD: Then we upload the demos to SoundCloud to gauge audience reaction:
TF: The process is very organic, and no ideas are off limits. We just do what we want
to do, when we want to do it, and how we want to do it.
DD: There’s no great master plan, we just have fun with our music, which is exactly
the way we like it.
5 - Have you ever thought of playing here in South America? Audiences in Brazil are very passionate about music!
DD: We would like nothing more than to visit South America, as we have heard so
many wonderful things about the passionate fans out there, but at the moment we
are not even allowed to visit Bradford, and that’s just a few miles down the road.
TF: Once the pandemic is in the past, playing at a festival in Brazil would be a dream
come true for us, but as we perform in space suits and helmets on stage, we might
struggle a bit with the heat.
DD: We could always just wear the helmets and thongs with our logo on the front.
TF: I’m game if you are. You know how I like dressing up.
DD: Then it’s settled… look out Brazil, Non Stop Erotic Cabaret are coming for ya!
6 - We know that the music market is no longer the same ... what does it take to stay fresh and relevant?
TF: We have made a lot of “cool” music over the years to try and please other
people, but with Non Stop Erotic Cabaret we just decided to please ourselves.
DD: The irony is, by loving what we do, and doing what we love, we have
inadvertently created music which everyone else seems to love too.
TF: But once again, there was no real plan. We just did what came naturally.
7 - Do you like the idea of releasing videos in lyric format?
TF: We tend to make use of a lot of old film footage in our videos rather than create
lyric videos, because we love the way they look and feel.
DD: We think of them like Duchamp’s readymade sculptures. We take something
designed for a particular purpose, and turn it into something extraordinary by
recontextualising it as a music video.
TF: You can check some of our videos out on our YouTube channel:
DD: Having said that, we’re not averse top doing lyric videos. A lot of thought goes
into the words, and it might be nice to do a full length lyric video at some point.
TF: We did create a short one to promote our current single, Connected...
DD: Available now on all major platforms!
TF: But if we can think of a new and innovative way to make a lyric video for our next
single, Mr. Moogie which is coming out early next year, we will certainly give it a go.
8 - We finish here, the space is yours...
TF: If people would like to find out more about us, all they have to do is Google
#nSECmUSIC, and they can become part of our #nSECnATION by joining us on
Facebook, Instagram or Twitter:
DD: People don’t really believe it’s really us managing our social media accounts,
but it is, and there has never been a better time to get to know us.
TF: Our message to the world is to keep safe, stay positive, get creative…
DD: …and get Connected.
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