
Chick Alex: We want to do everything. Music is just one tiny little bit. We’re not a band - that’s really important. We are an art project. There’s the music, the three labels that we run (Stop Records, Go Records and Chicks On Speed Records), the clothes that we make, graphics and record covers for other bands, and video and wallpaper. We want to get into architecture, too. We want to build a building, a Chicks On Speed headquarters in Berlin. You make wallpaper?
Yes. Also we’re preparing for a big exhibition in Barcelona, they’ve given us a room and it’s going to be called "Chicks On Speed Sell Out" and we’re building a paper house and we’re going to sell things. We’re going to sell out terribly. Every single little thing in this room will be for sale. You could buy the carpet on the floor and this wallpaper that we’ve made from news clippings. You know how there’s been all these journalists hyping us a bit? We’ve taken the hype and made wallpaper out of that, all these stupid slogans, like "Chicks On Speed make Atari Teenage Riot look like the James Last Orchestra" and stuff like that. What does your manifesto mean?
We don’t believe in it anymore because it’s just a load of rubbish. However, there is one good bit that Kiki wrote that says, "The Chicks Machine will think for you. Add or don’t add or add and don’t add anything. Don’t even think or don’t add or don’t think or don’t add anything. The Chicks Machine will think for you." That’s a good bit. The Chicks Machine?
Yeah, we want to make this one-button machine that will do everything. We’ll use it for music as well. It’ll make strange sounds and do a lot of different functions. We want to get the guy who did the Kraftwerk machine. It’ll be white and metal and a triangle, and in the middle of this triangle, a single button. Umm…Ooh.
You’re getting confused, aren’t you? Buh.