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Nicky Spence launched his classical singing career at a young age, releasing his debut album while still attending the Guildhall School of Music. Born in Dumfriesshire in 1983, the Scottish tenor began performing as a child and won his first competition at the age of 14. Working at a local fish-and-... |
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In another effort to control the spread of Burmese pythons through the Everglades, Florida will offer a $1,500 prize for whoever bags the most snakes in January's "Python Challenge." |
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Oneida's Bobby Matador On The Pleasure Of Marathon Shows And The Rewards Of Independence |
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If you allow your definition of success to include artistic credibility and the ability to stage unique events that no other band seems capable of executing, then Oneida are one the defining success stories of independent rock from the last decade. The band has been able to avoid the hard-touring life, traditional albu... |
Myself and photographer Tim Bugbee had the chance to discuss Oneida's singular place in the current indie rock landscape at this year's All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror Festival with Bobby Matador in Asbury Park, New Jersey. |
How does the band decide to participate in events like the Ocropolis -- is there a formal structure for making decisions within the band? |
It's not formal to the extent that we have a work plan, there's just a decent tradition in our band of delegation. So in the case of this ATP, we try and make all our decisions collectively. E-mail is the best way to do that; “ATP is inviting us – are you interested so that we can move forward?” In this case, [Oneida g... |
For a tour in Europe, someone will be responsible for representing the band to our booking agent. We try and be really explicit about it. There are ways in which having dedicated representation or managerial expertise would totally work in our favor. We don't nail everything but we do pretty well and it's enjoyable and... |
For our most recent tour, Kid [Millions, Oneida drummer] was the tour manager. There are certain things that people historically do. For instance, I manage the money, other people have their things that they pretty much always handle. Sometimes things get crazy and we aren't explicit enough, so we need to step back and... |
Can you tell us the history of the Ocropolis marathon events? |
We did it most recently in June at the now-closed Secret Project Robot space. Friday we played for three hours – all of Preteen Weaponry and Rated O. Saturday we performed from noon to midnight. Sunday morning at five in the morning we did the new album. It was a long weekend, but you know it's worth it. It's interesti... |
When you did the first off-site Ocropolis at the Flaming Lips' curated All Tomorrows Parties in 2009, did they initially ask about a regular set and you said “Well, how about this?” |
What happened was the Flaming Lips asked us to play but they asked us if we would be willing to do something extreme or different. What the Flaming Lips initially proposed – I think it came out of them performing Dark Side of the Moon at the time – they were like, “You guys could play all of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.” ... |
Was playing Rumours ever seriously discussed? |
Hard to gauge. [Laughter] |
Did anyone want to do it? |
I mean I love that music but that's really fucking hard. Part of it was that we're always struggling to find time to play our own music and move our own music forward. It's always a challenge and the fact that it's always a challenge keeps us energized and invested. I'll just speak for myself: I don't have the time to ... |
So we were like,”How can we do this?” That's where our discussion went. So we thought what could we propose that would be interesting. So we just had this idea of: “We could do what we do here [at the studio], there. They could give us a room!” It's one of those things where it's like “Ha ha,” – crack another beer – “T... |
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How do you decide what guests to invite to the Ocropolis? |
It's just a multi-step thing and someone in the band is in charge of it. The first time we did it we knew that kid was playing with The Boredoms, we know the Flaming Lips dudes, we have some friends who are there so it all kind of fell into place and we reached out here and there a little bit. The second one, we were l... |
Who did you play with at the Godspeed! ATP? |
Mike Watt, Deerhoof, The Dead C. Some other people like Dallas Good from The Sadies played guitar, White Hills. That was something where we were like, here's this huge lineup, so what's everyone's top level choices? I was shooting for Throbbing Gristle, Cluster and Charlemagne Palestine. I was zero for three, but all o... |
From a musical perspective? |
Just from my perspective of playing but also how it sounded and it went to places where we wouldn’t necessarily take it. That's really cool, you're sort of building something and feeling each other out with people who are just coming at it from a place that they've developed because they've played together for a long t... |
How did your relationship with [Yo La Tengo member] James McNew come about? [McNew played bass with Oneida for the majority of the Ocropolis set] |
We've played with Yo La Tengo a few times, I really love that band, I think they're just amazing. They asked us to play the Hanukah event at Maxwell's and we've just gotten along. So we were like, “We're in Jersey, we should find someone to represent.” We sent an e-mail to Yo La Tengo, something came up with George & I... |
When you're doing the Ocropolis marathon sets, do you get bored or check out? |
Before you get bored, it's like “Okay...the river of ideas and energy that immerses me is running dry, this would be a good time to step away.” So I'll work myself out and step away. The reality is that this [The Ocropolis] is how we play as band in general, but with more of a time span. We'll play all day every day, b... |
What's the status on releasing the Ocropolis material? |
It's not going anywhere, we're taking good care of it, its not like its slipping out of our consciousness. There's no specific plan right now, I don't know that any of us would feel good about just dumping it out there without listening to it and getting to know what it sounds like. Even if we then decide, “Here's some... |
You're a very ambitious band with a lot of projects, and you don't regularly tour as much as other bands of your ilk. You have your own studio and you're able to put together events that other bands couldn't necessarily imagine pulling off. Is that something Oneida has purposely set out to do or is that just a result o... |
I'd say it comes from who we are as people and as a band and what we've prioritized but its not as noble or idealistic as saying “Let's set out and be an example.” That implies much more foresight [Laughter] One thing that I feel that we as a band do very well is think about who we are and what we're doing and what it ... |
It's less of a pragmatic decision? |
We make really pragmatic decisions in order to protect the heart of what we do from pragmatism. |
You guys have your own studio, you put out a triple record a few years back, and you get to do events like the Ocropolis. How is that possible if the over-arching narrative right now is that music is dying, bands can't sell records, etc.? |
Because we work. I mean the band funds itself but our lives aren’t funded by the band. So when we go out on tour, tour pays for itself and maybe we have a little money that pays for studio rent. We're also super fortunate in certain ways. We have an audience in Europe that's pretty supportive and sizable and we can go ... |
We're careful about the decisions we make and how they impact us on theoretical and practical levels. We're also fortunate enough to have circumstances that allow us to do what we do. We've been working with a fantastic record company for a very long time. We respect each other, we respect how each other does business.... |
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