(above: Piss Machines “we cum blood”)
Local musical act Piss Machines blends assaultive noise with obtrusive performance in an often astonishing display of vulgarity. The two man-group performs with the tag line: “everyone is a piss machine,” and if you haven’t seen them yet you surely will and should. The Monitor sat down with Matt and Keenan to talk Piss Machines:
Keenan: What the fuck type of interview is this?
TM: What inspires your guys’ art?
Matt: Drugs.
Keenan:Yeah, drugs and anger, and also … trying to get bitches. I wanted to be the lead singer in a noise band ‘cause I thought that’s what girls liked and I thought I’d get hella poon-tang. So far not much poon-tang.
Matt: I do it because I’m pretty sure it makes me better than everyone else. That’s all that really matters.
Keenan: … we got free beer one time and that still motivates me to this day to do what I do.
TM: Where do you see Piss Machines headed? In a year, 5 years, and 10 years?
Keenan: One year: probably be black out about this time one year from now. Five years: I’ll probably still be black out, and then 10 years: Savvis Center in St. Louis. I imagine we’ll sell out the Savvis Center.
TM: I noticed that was mostly about you, do you consider this band an extension of yourself and your life?
Keenan: I usually forget that Matt’s in it.
Matt: That’s funny ‘cause when I’m performing I usually don’t listen to anything else other than what I’m playing.
Keenan: Yeah me too, sometimes I hear it and I actually get angry and turn up the volume so I can’t hear other people.
TM: So is this an ultimate egotistical experience?
Matt: Yes.
Keenan: No, I’d say it’s the furthest thing from egotistical really.
TM: How So?
Keenan: Next question.
TM: What is generally the reaction to your music?
Keenan: Running away.
Matt: Yeah, but you know usually with a shirt and a CD in hand so…
Keenan: And our signature brand Nikes.
TM: Are there ever people who are into it?
Matt: I don’t know because usually I’m not paying attention to anything.
Keenan: Matt’s usually off in his own world I tend to run around in the crowd and stuff from time to time and I see some people I think are pretending like they are into it, but they don’t really get it … like I know they don’t.
Matt: I think some people do though.
Keenan: No.
Matt: Yeah some people do.
Keenan: Yeah I guess occasionally.
Matt: Some people also want to but don’t.
Keenan: I feel like they get it, but not in the way that I get it.
Matt: Yeah, but they still enjoy what’s going on
Keenan: Yeah, in the way like a baby enjoys when everyone’s laughing, but doesn’t get the joke. That’s how I see it. Every fan I’ve ever seen of ours is a retard. Literally.
TM: What would you say your relationship to your fans is in that case?
Matt: Fuck them.
Keenan: I would say pandering. I am just pandering to the retard audience.
Keenan: So you are just making these questions up on the spot?
TM: You had a performance over the summer where you performed for Joseph Baldwin Academy kids, what was that like/how was that different from your other performances?
Matt: Probably life changing.
Keenan: Yeah. I would say life changing.
TM: And you tried to incorporate them into the show by giving them musical instru…
Keenan: It changed my life.
TM: So, would you like if people started performing with you more at shows, I mean that happens now is that something you want to happen more?
Matt: I mean, usually Wynen’s there and he is drunk and he’s trying to do something.
Keenan: I mean, if those people were children than yes, but Piss Machines is for children. It is for children to be a part of and enjoy. So if a full grown man were to try and come and make music with me I would be forced to push him out of the way, and invite the little children to come to me.
Matt: Uh… yeah.
TM: When can we expect more from Piss Machines?
Matt: Right now? I don’t fucking know.
Keenan: Whenever something interesting comes along.
Matt: Saying that there’s like a Piss Machines show on a certain date at a certain time is kind of… kind of dumb. More or less because everything around us is noise and so we are all the time Piss Machines everyone.
Keenan: Piss Machines is a brand that Matt and I wear. I mean, figuratively to be serious just for a spell.
Matt: I’d never scarify my body for the sake of anything … that’s probably not true … scratch that whole thing about that not being true.
Keenan: I am always performing as Piss Machines like last night when we were at Taco Bell and that girl said “Hey Piss Machines,” and I waved that wave that was a Piss Machines performance.
TM: Anything you’d like to close with/anything I missed?
Matt: Fuck you … not just you, everyone.
Keenan: Invite us to play your parties and stuff, not just you but everyone.
TM: Is there a contact that people can keep in touch with you through.
Keenan: Uh… 636-675-0154 that’s my personal cell-phone number. I keep my phone on 24/7
TM: Can fans also contact you?
Keenan: Yeah, preferably female fans.
Matt: pissmachines@gmail.com I will try and wade through all the spam, actually probably not. Don’t use that e-mail.
Matt: This interview’s not over.
Keenan: Drink some beer.
check the band out at :
http://www.myspace.com/pissmachines#!/pissmachines
