You try to run, you try to hide… you can’t. You’ve got to work, and your job is playing those damn songs, they’re everywhere.
And how’s that working out? It is difficult, it follows you. I don’t want to look at my work, I don’t want to analyse it, I’m just doing my best to shirk all the responsibility for that… shit. I don’t know what that 10% is about, any more than the 90%. This is how I figure it: I couldn’t write 100% about anything, even if it’s nothing, so that 10% is just a margin of error.
What are the other 10% about? The other 10% is just process of elimination… I don’t analyse what they’re about. You, on the other hand, have been quoted as saying ‘90% of our songs are about nothing at all’. Wikipedia says that your songs are about ‘Macho flippancy, hypersexuality, fire and fast food’.
Caught somewhere between fire, fantasy and flat-out parody, James Harle converses with lead singer Dick Valentine, on the road for his current solo-tour. Far from being a one-hit-wonder, however, the garage/disco/punk new-wavers have been touring and releasing their own distinctive and uncategorizable albums for over a decade. Detroit-based six-piece band Electric Six are probably best remembered for their 2003 singles Gay Bar and Danger! High Voltage.
