IMA ROBOT Interviewed!
ALEX
SINGER OF I’M A ROBOT
How was the gig last night?
The gig was good last night. It was interesting cause I thought the people were a little stand offish and cold at first so I just mirrored that and it was little awkward at first. It was nice though as it was different. Then I started to see everyone start to dance and that was good. I was in a weird head space so I was all messed up from the travelling and I only had a one hour nap and I got there late so I had to run on stage so it was weird for me.
Listening to the album, it sounds like you have a pretty tight live set but apparently you have not played live together very often, is that true?
We haven’t played that much together since we recorded the record. As a band, a lot of us have been together for 6 years and three of us have been together for five years. As a band now we have been together for about nine months.
How did the I’M A Robot band take shape?
Me and Tim the guitar player started off to begin with and then we roped in Ollie on keyboards. Then we started to play gigs around LA. Then we just took it from there and roped Justin into it after a while. That’s when we started to get serious and write some real songs that people would consider songs. Then we got our deal and got Joey on board.
Can you take us through a few songs that you will be playing at The Metro?
They (the band) have some ideas about what the songs are about lyrically so I will let them describe those to you. Oh yeah ‘Black Jetta’ that’s a funny one. In LA, Volkswagens make Jetta cars. I guess you guys don’t have them over here.
Yes we do!
Oh okay, Justin told me that you didn’t get them over here! In LA, every girl drives a black Jetta basically and I had this girlfriend who drove a black Jetta and so did Tim and a few other band members. Then these girls became our ex-girlfriends so whenever we saw a black Jetta, we would all freak out. This particular ex-girlfriend was insane or that’s unfair maybe I am being unfair cause may be I made her insane! You just started acting all crazy and started kicking and breaking things. I was scared of her for a little while and so every time I saw a black Jetta, it was intense! I just wrote the song cause I can’t drive around in peace as there are so many black Jetta’s around so I was constantly on the look out. I just wrote the lyrics about that. ‘Ears For Action’ is an interesting song and it’s about the state of affairs and things that are going on. It spells out words, like it spells out Apocalypse and each letter becomes an acronym. It’s nice. |
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