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APOCALYPSE WOW! Venus X on the 4th Anniversary of GHE20GOTH1K and The End Of The World

Fresh from becoming BFFs with M.I.A we spoke to the coolest girl in New York about, umm, the apocalypse.

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I’ve always had a thing for Venus X, ever since the Peso video where she’s sat next to Rocky at the table in a café. She’s the girl with green hair.

Tomorrow night is the four year anniversary of her club GHE20GOTH1K, which has been responsible for help shape that “I’m a gay gothic punk heterosexual that loves drill music and also Siouxsie and The Banshees” aesthetic that you see a lot of at fashion weeks and Kanye photoshoots across the world. Mike Q is headlining, so it is a big deal. Lots of people will be wearing Hood By Air.

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She’s also just gone on on tour with M.I.A, as a backing singer/dancer/cool person on stage.Things are going pretty good.

How did the MIA thing happen?

Venus X: She followed me on Twitter. She tweeted this talk that I did in Milan at this museum on music and cultural appropriation and stuff. Then her agent got in touch about me opening up dates for summer. She did used to come to the parties quite often. She came regularly when she was in town in early 2010. It was a really small party then. It was only like 150 people in a basement in the Lower East Side. It was like a Wednesday night, $2 dollars at the door party. It was , but it just wasn’t nearly as big as it is now.

How old were you when you started it?

I just turned 22. So it was like four or five years ago now.

I guess GHE20GOTH1K and your aesthetic had like that dark R&B Aaliyah thing, but also a Siouxsie Banshees vibe and like, a punk thing. I heard you play like Al-Jazeera samples too.

Well, I do that sometimes. I don’t know, I like sounds. I like mood clips. I like radioactive, nuclear sites, haha! I don’t like the destruction, but I like to fit reality into what I do. It’s fun to play the news, right? It’s like the last thing people expect you’re going to do. It’s really cinematic but it’s not even fake. It’s not fiction, it’s not a story that somebody wrote to narrate two hours on film. Like, it’s really happening. When people write about the Al Jazeera stuff that I played, it was during the revolution in Egypt. So I was DJing at this fashion party —of course everybody was wasted and feeling really cute and stuff—I was playing Nicki Minaj and then I just slid right into Al-Jazeera, and they were so confused…and excited! And I was excited, because what’s the problem?

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It’s very easy to confuse people in a nightclub scenario I think. How are you going to celebrate the fourth anniversary?

We’re going to dance and we’re going to act like the apocalypse is going to happen the next day; because that’s really the premise of the party.

It kind of feels like the apocalypse is gonna happen quite soon, if you follow the news, right?

Right. Well, it is gonna happen.

How many years do you think we have left?

I personally think maybe like two.

Two? Why do you think that? What do you think is going to happen?

My internal barometer. It’s getting a little hot, you know what I’m sayin’?

What do you think is going to happen? Is North Korea going to blow us up, or Iran is going to blow us up? Or there could be a dirty bomb in New York. How do you think it’s going to end?

I don’t know if it’s going to end right away. But people are going to definitely start putting their policies – America is not that significant anymore economically, you know? We’ve hurt way too many people. We’ve killed a lot of people’s family members. We’ve ruined a lot of people’s economies and their land. It’s only a matter of time. Everybody has to figure out where they want to go next because this place will not be inhabitable if we keep doing what we’re doing.

Do you think you’re going to survive past two years or do you just think America is going to die?

I’m definitely going to survive, because I’m ready to go whenever I need to. I’m looking forward to living somewhere else. If I could burn my passport, I would. If somebody else would give me a passport, I will take it. I hate this country.

You hate it?

Yeah, I think it’s full of shit.

Thanks Venus!