Psychotica Press Kit, Page 5
HE HAS SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY PSYCHOTICA! A Q&A with Psychotica's Pat Briggs
PSYCHOTICA's debut album on Ventrue Entertainment/American Recordings will be released this summer, coinciding with their Main Stage appearances on this year's Lollapalooza festival. If the psychotic reaction that the band is getting from recent east coast concert dates is any indication, Psychotica are spearheading a return to rock theatrics that'll reach unprecedented levels of daring, something that Patrick Briggs talked about in a recent interview with American's Media Relations Department.
QUESTION: You made a pretty wild impression last year when Psychotica played the Lollapalooza Second Stage in New York, right?
Pat Briggs: Yeah, that was fantastic. I wore a rubber suit, and after playing in the hot sun, I had a river of body fluid streaming off me. Ayhhhh (laughs)
Q: Psychotica aren't used to playing in broad daylight?
PB: We're total vampires! (laughs) But the show we're going to do for Lollapalooza is going to be as glam and spectacular as anything we've done inside a dark club. There won't be any lighting fx because we'll be playing in broad daylight, but we will utilize the daylight.
Q: Utilize the daylight?
PB: You'll have to see the show to understand it. I look at rock'n'roll from a theatrical aspect. "What can I utilize?" you know?
Q: Rumour has it that Psychotica's show is unlike anything that's been done today.
PB: Yeah, I don't think anyone has seen anything quite like it. I open the show by coming out of a mirror ball egg, completely naked, and sexless. I'm like an "Alien Barbie." Most people just say, "That was the most amazing thing I've seen in a long, long time." People want somebody to push rock'n'roll forward.
Q: Is it true that you, Pat Briggs, and the illustrious Iggy Pop appear together in an exhibit in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame?
PB: Yeah, the curators are convinced that Psychotica is the band of the future. They've got us in a display, mannequins and stuff, in the Amhet Ertegun Hall of Costumes. It's me on a neon cross bound in saran wrap. Everything's behind a chain link fence. Trent Reznor, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, L7 and me. It does kinda put pressure on Psychotica to live up to the hype, and I've been trying to downplay it all.
Q: Iggy Pop had Psychotica open some shows for him in April. How did the Iggy crowd like your act?
PB: the audiences at the Iggy shows were made up of very young kids who had heard of the notorious Iggy Pop, and the older fans who'd seen him for years. They didn't know us, but both groups of fans gave us a great reaction.
Q: Was Psychotica's New York performance at Roseland the band's first big-time gig in its hometown?
PB: Yeah, and it was amazing, though it did get pretty crazy. We sent one guy to the hospital, a stage guard who was hit in the head by a mike stand. We're not into violence, though.
Q: Psychotica incorporates so many polar opposites that the band must hold the distinction of being the most unusual group of performers into the known universe.
PB: I've always been into combining unusual, opposite, different talens together. Things that in the real, natural world would never be together.
Q: What makes Psychotica stand out most among so many other bands today?
PB: Aside from the fact that we give overpowering and overwhelming performances, I'd say it's because Psychotica are the most sexually ambiguous band in America. On many levels.
Media Contact:
Steven M. Cohen • 818-xxx-xxxx
Lilpat's notes: This was on a light pink piece of paper. The top has a normal font saying "HE HAS SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY" and then there's the Psychotica logo [from the first album]. Underneath the logo, in the same original font, it says "A Q&A with Psychotica's Pat Briggs". The number of Steven Cohen was blocked out on this website to protect it. At the bottom of the paper there's an American Recordings logo.