No No Zero
WL 355 – Sunday, March 18 – 11pm
Purveyors of: bluesy garage punk

No No Zero’s brand of fuzzy garage rock tends to stir up some very intense feelings. Sef maintained his composure barely long enough to finish this interview.

Just who exactly is No No Zero?

No No Zero has, since its start two years ago, seen a few people come and go. Currently the band is Johnny LaRue on drums, myself (Pius Priapus) on vocals, and Josh Bauman, Zak Hanna, and Catl on noisy guitars. We're also lucky enough to have Tara White and Sian Llewelyn on lovely backing vocals.

The “Links” section of your website lists “Big Boobs Alert”, “Seventies Horror Films” and everything in between…is there a story here?

I'm bored to tears with the standard band webpage, let alone disgusting MySpace band pages. I didn't want to do the same old thing online, and part of that was linking to sites that arguably have something to do with what the band's about, or what the songs are about or inspired by - sex, violence, repression, pornography, guilt, and so on. Those are some great sites, believe me. All hand picked. If you go to our photo page, you'll also see pictures of various kinds of algae instead of having to look at our sad faces. It's all put together with you, the viewer, in mind

The band released an LP late last year. How smooth was that process?

When the pressing plant sent us back our test pressings, they turned out to be Marley Marl’s. That's about as smooth as it got.

Describe your on-stage personas…

We position ourselves onstage to represent the sigil points of the demon Orobas. This gives us increased power and potency for the course of the performance. But it's not really a case of individual stage personas per se. We're all giving praise to Orobas as a collective. Nobody's special, no ego games…

What should we, the Wavelength audience, expect from a No No Zero performance?

Expect to see a bunch of people doing it who've been doing it for awhile and really like to do it well when they do it. Expect short, loud songs. Expect an earache afterwards.

by Sef