INTERVIEW – LIARS

So did you guys live the art school dream of sex and drugs?
Julian (drums): Well, I started when I was 23, so I got all the drugs and sex out of my system. When I went to school I wanted to learn and study. I took it really seriously.

How do you feel about being called an “experimental” band?
Julian: For us, each album is like a new project, rather than a part of one big entity. It works into the idea of Fluxus*.

Um… What’s Fluxus?
(Painful, painful silence)

What if you took the opposite approach and tried to work within the confines of a strict set of rules?
Julian: Well, take someone like Mondrian who did the same thing for thirty years. It gets kind of boring. I mean, it was good when he first did it, but after a while…

So, if you don’t go by a strict set of rules, then what inspires the band to keep creating new things?
Angus (vocals/guitar): Well, you try new things that you don’t know anything about, and then it becomes new again. You aren’t sure whether you can do it, so you always have this doubt. I don’t think we’re the type of band that’s always confident. A lot of the time we’re both unsure and confident.

Isn’t doubt and fear essentially the same thing?
Julian: You could say that fear and excitement are one in the same.

Yes you could. Thanks guys!

*Don’t feel bad if you have no idea what Fluxus is. No one does.

– Liars’ album, rather inventively titled Liars, comes out on Mute on August 28