1) Is the name of the band from the song by The Edgar Broughton Band-"Death of an Electric Citizen"?
Yes, that’s our namesake. So perfectly raw, and the lyrics are badass! "This is my heaven, you can make it if you try.""You hear the promises blowing on the wind, and the wind is a vehicle for a bad man's sins."
"and then it's just about The death of an...The life of an...Electirc Citizen"
2) When did the band form? How did you meet the other members, Laura?
We played our first show in March of 2013, and formed about 6 months prior to that. Ross and I met in highschool, as did Nick and Nate. We knew each other through the local music scene, and when we decided to form this band it all just seemed to click. There’s good energy and a mutual respect between us that’s hard to come by.
3) Will the band be playing any live dates?
We just came off a very long stretch of touring that started back at the end of April. We've been lucky enough to support some really awesome bands along the way - Fu Manchu, Joan Jett, The Budos Band, Wolfmother, and The Cult. We are playing The Uninvited Fest in NYC on Sept 20th, and heading to Europe in April 2015 for Roadburn Festival with a week long tour preceding that. I'm sure more dates will come up, but right now we are focused on writing our second album.
4) Could you name a few favorite bands?
We have many, but here's a few favorites that have certainly influenced us - Budgie, UFO, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Frumpy, The Pretty Things, Chrissy Zebby Tembo.
5) How is the writing of the new album coming, Laura?
The second album is coming along great, we've been dying to work on our new material, so we jumped right in as soon as we returned home from tour. We're a little over halfway through writing it, can't wait to be in the studio again.
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| Photo by Steven Levas Photography — at The Observatory Orange County. |
Interested, sure, the supernatural certainly intrigues me, but I don't actively practice occultism. We often get coined occult rock, but I don't really know where that comes from, and I don't personally consider us occult rock. I do have a bit of family history in witchcraft - my ancestors ran a safe house to protect the accused during the Salem Witch Trials. I think that's pretty cool, and pretty brave of them to do so.
7) What are you doing when not in the recording studio, or playing live, Laura?
Right now my attention is focused on writing our second album, but it's been good to get back to normal life since being home. I missed my pets and my friends. I love anything to do with animals, art, music, old cars, metaphysics, science, and technology. I'm fascinated by Nikola Tesla and Edgar Cayce, I'll read anything on them. My grandfather worked with Nikola Tesla as a young scientist, but he wouldn't (or perhaps couldn't) tell us much before he died, and I think that has fueled my curiosities even further. And Edgar Casey is an endless source of knowledge. I rode horses for 14 years, I wish I could find the time to do that again. When I was a kid I'd shovel stalls all day at this old western barn just to get a free ride at the end of the day. I've never had the money to own one, but someday I will, or atleast I'll go back to shoveling stalls. I've always said, if life as I know it fell apart I'd run off to the west and become a cowgirl. And I'd like to have another vintage car someday. I had a 1969 VW Karmann Ghia when I was a teenager, I spent hours driving that thing to nowhere, I loved it to death.
Interview By John Wisniewski
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