Double Suicide the film is the acclaimed adaptation of a Japanese bunraku puppet play about a merchant who destroys his life to pursue an erotic obsession with a prostitute. Double Suicide the band is also phenomenal, but in a totally different way. Miles Baker fumbled to sort it all out with Sandro Perri and Ryan Driver.

If you were a cover band which band would you cover? Or if you were a tribute band? Aren't tribute bands funny?

Sandro: We are a cover band, of each other's songs, and sometimes others too.
Ryan: We usually play our own songs but we have also played a song by Will Oldham called 'œ25'? and a song by Elvis Costello called 'œImagination'?. Any song can and perhaps should be interpreted in an infinite number of ways and it is not interesting to think that there is a definitive version of anything so why should someone not make something that exists already into something else. I am in another group known as The Reveries that always plays songs by other people with pieces of balloons and noseflute and harmonica and saw and electronics in our mouths etcetera.

Tribute bands are funny but so are (fill in this blank with any word) ________ bands. Anyway, we, Double Suicide, will never even be a band '˜cuz there're only two of us. Yay!

Why did you bother to pick up instruments in the first place? My parents made me play piano. Did yours do something like that?

S: They didn't, unfortunately (or fortunately). I came upon it myself. I had the opportunity to borrow a guitar from my cousin and that was pretty much it.
R: My parents let me play piano. Kids will be kids. They let me play flute and weird records and blades of grass too. That was really nice of them. I think I picked and still pick up instruments so that I can play with music because it seemed and seems important to me and others and so it is.

Guilty pop pleasures are in right now. I for one love mainstream comics and reality shows about models. What are your guilty pop pleasures?

R: I like coffee or beer. I am guilty of liking not having a TV. I have invented some variations on the game of Scrabble.
S: Vincent D'Onofrio is the only reason I can usually think of to turn on the TV, and maybe Dale Gribble. Are they in?

If you like someone do you give them a mix tape? Have you ever given someone a purely platonic mix tape?

R: I would only do this by request, and yes, I might need to like the person in order to fulfill the request. It has happened two times, I think. Half of these were PPMT's. Same recipient. Anyway, most people think tapes are obsolete. They would just say thank you politely, but chances are they would never find a way of listening to it.
S: I once gave someone what I considered to be a plutonic mix tape. I had a minor crush on them but didn't know it until I read the playlist a few years later.

What was on it that made you realise that?

S: The third track from Pita's Get Out. Total crush song

Can you give me songs that you think everyone needs to hear?

S: "Springtime Can Kill You" - Jolie Holland
"Roxanne" - Erika Stucky
"I Wanna BeYour Bbomb" - Jill Kroesen
"Honesty Was My Only Excuse" - Thin Lizzy
A live version of "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley) from the BBC, minus the beats...better than the real thing.
R: My tape deck isn't working. Anyway, there are no songs that everyone needs to hear. Especially since there are some people who never hear anything at all who get along just fine. I really like 'œI Just Died In Your Arms Tonight'? but only because of the title.

By Miles Baker