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INTERVIEW: Hey Marseilles (WA)

Hey Marseilles 2009.03.04

"folkestra" from Seattle

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Colin you'd talked about reevaluating why you play music at all. Why did you come back to it? What is it that drives you?
Colin: It has to be necessary for me to want to play. I don't know. If it was somebody else, I probably wouldn't even be playing. I'd probably be just recording bands right now. It's different. The rock thing I've been doing forever, the whole Radiohead thing. And when I first heard this music it was way too campy for me. But this music is like a version of a guy wearing a pink shirt. First it's like, Whatever. And then it's like, Whoa, I totally would not fuck with that guy. Just how big are his balls that he's got his pink shirt on? It's not the stuff that everyone is playing.
Matt: I will have you know that our primary demographic up until a couple months ago were twenty-year-old men. Very straight men.

On musical backgrounds and drive
Nick: I think at least for me, I'm not into, like, the old Seattle thing, like, Nirvana, power chords, just rock. Playing something with acoustic instruments and strings and stuff is like my backlash to all of that.
Matt: Fifteen years later, Hey Marseilles responds to Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

After Patrick recalled his days in high school jazz band, practically the last time he had played trumpet before pursuing guitar and picking up trumpet again for Hey Marseilles:
Colin: Well when you're a junior in high school, it's not a useful skill to your friends if you play the trumpet.
Patrick: I don't know if it is now. I think there's a girl who likes me, but I don't know if it's really helped with anything like that.
Colin: I think it's valuable to them now that you play trumpet, but if they were in high school with you, they'd probably wish you played guitar.
Patrick: And I'd be like, "Shut up, you want me to come pop your zits?!"