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\nIKARA COLT
\ninterview by tom maxwell
\n<\/b>
\nFuck you! Fuck all of you reading this right now (especially you) and fuck all the unimportant bands muddling my brain with loose thoughts and incoherent ideas. You all take away from the brilliance that is England’s Ikara Colt by making this meager journalist describe a sound so pure and eye-opening. The fact is my music library is now cluttered with bands that I don’t even remember and don’t want to remember and all because kids have dreams of being rock stars. That shit is as frustrating as it is tiring. The fact is about 98% of the shit released we could do without. With the plethora of bands and their $2,000 studios the problem continues to get worse.<\/p>\n

The only music you really need to have are by acts whose brilliance is so timeless that fifty years from now you can pick it up and rock the fuck out as if it was today. Timeless acts that warrant comparisons to Ikara Colt include the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs (new, instant classic), Fugazi, Sonic Youth, etc. It’s a god damn nightmare trying to explain the next unmistakable masterpiece to skeptical Americans. Thankfully, music is in a rut and it’s not hard to shake the sand to get the big rocks to the top.<\/p>\n

When everything is said and done this band is unbelievable. Ikara Colt will make you an instant listener with their avant-punk rock that is sure to put punk on the map in 2003. Their furious musical assaults have been selling out Brittan’s largest venues for months and they just returned from their first very successful U.S. tour. However, these bastards were selling literally thousands of records in the US before they had ever been here. Lead singer Paul was really taken aback when he found out about the band’s popularity in the States. With only one LP, “Chat and Business” to date you might wonder why they have such a big hype so soon (especially with a very independent attitude as you will see), but then again you haven’t heard the album. I guarantee you people will be trying as hard as they can to recreate the sound, but like the dumb fucks most people are, it probably won’t happen for a few years. Then the sad thing is it will be some piece of shit sell-out who will sell millions of records with similar sounding radio friendly garbage. Wake up dumb shit; you can still get in on the ground level of this retro freak-out. Ikara Colt is an independently minded band with some of the most intriguing music and ideas I’ve ever heard. Come along on my journey with Paul Resende, lead singer of the epic Ikara Colt.<\/p>\n

Tom: Paul?<\/b>
\nPaul: (in a thick English accent) Hello? Where are you calling from?<\/p>\n

Shit town USA, Bakersfield California.<\/b>
\n(as if put out by the response)Why do they call it shit town?<\/p>\n

I don’t know it’s kind of the armpit of the America I guess. It’s just a trucker town with a whole bunch of cows and farms. What about you?<\/b>
\nEast London, it could also be called shit town. I don’t know how it is in America, but the east of the town is all shitty. Someone told me it’s because the wind comes from the west so all the chimney smoke will blow to the east. So all the rich people get all their smoke blown away and all the poor people who live on the fucking east side get all the smoke.<\/p>\n

You’re singing my song, you think they planned that?<\/b>
\nOh, definitely.<\/p>\n

So are you living off the “fat of the land” being an artist and all that?<\/b>
\nYeah, we get by.<\/p>\n

Let me get into it, you guys are currently on tour in Europe?<\/b>
\nWe got a little time off since getting back from the States about a month ago. We don’t start up again until autumn. We’re going to record the next album and that’s the plan. We’re currently in the demo phase. Just trying to see what we’ve got.<\/p>\n

What did you think of the states, I know it was your first time.<\/b>
\nIt was cool, it was big, Jesus it’s big. You know how you look at a globe; well England is about half the size. I don’t know why they make it bigger than it actually is.<\/p>\n

Probably because Englishmen drew the map. What’s it like now that England lost all its colonies.<\/b>
\nI mean you got the common wealth, which is kind of like the ex-colonies, but get rid of the fucking queen.<\/p>\n

The queen? What would you recommend, a princess?
\n<\/b>I don’t want any royalty at all. They don’t serve any purpose really. Just because you’re born into it doesn’t mean you’re capable of leading it.<\/p>\n