Introducing Spinnerette!
By Amy Simmons
Brody Dalle is back and she ain’t what she used to be, musically speaking.
In the latest edition of BLUNT – issue #82 on sale in Australia and New Zealand until August 11, 2009 – we caught up with the punk vixen-turned-rock MILF to get the low-down on her brand new project, Spinnerette.
The following transcript contains some of the juicier bits we had left over…
What’s happening with Spinnerette at the moment?
We started practising last night and it was really good, we rehearsed at the studio [husband] Josh [Homme, QOTSA] and I built in the Valley called Pink Duck. We start touring in July, we go overseas and we play a bunch of festivals and in August we go back overseas and play some more festivals. We are playing some exotic island off the coast of Ireland, which I’m really excited about because it’s just the start.
Are you excited to get back on the road?
I am and I’m not. I’m not excited to leave my kid and my man and the house, our life, you know. I’m excited to play again for sure. I love playing shows, but it’s funny because we used to go out on tour and I’d hate it and want to go home, and then you hate it – that was when I didn’t have anything. I didn’t have a family so it’s really different now, I kinda just don’t wanna leave.
Punk rock can be very formulaic, how does it feel to break free from that mould?
It feels really good to be able to go in any direction that I want. Nobody wants to be limited; there should never be limits in music. I mean you can have a preference and prefer another style, that’s fine. I love punk rock music, believe me I still listen to it all the time, it’s still a part of my life, but I don’t necessarily want to play the same three or four chords over and over and scream my head off for an hour and a half every night, it’s just not where my heart is right now.
How has motherhood changed your approach to music?
I don’t think it’s changed the musical aspect, I think it probably has affected my writing in terms of subject matter. When you become a mum you question everything and try and fit it in its right place and disregard things that don’t mean anything anymore. It kind of gives you a little bit more of a consciousness, and you have to kind of shed a skin and have your own rebirth when you become a mum. So I think it’s the subject matter that it affects the most – what I write about and relationships and my worldview and what’s fucked up in the world. I’ve been writing a lot about love which seemed so corny to me my whole life, until now.
Had you have stayed in Melbourne, how different do you think your life would have been?
I don’t know, who knows! I love Melbourne now, I’ll tell you what it’s like a different place. I really wanna buy a house in Melbourne at some point in my life so Camille can have a taste of where I come from in Australia and the intellect over there. There’s a lot more smart people in Australia, Australians might not think that, but the people you encounter in general are a lot more worldly than some of the Americans that I’ve met. They’ve got a broader outlook on the world and they are a lot more concerned with what is happening in the world rather than what’s happening in their own backyard all the time. So I really want Camille to have a touch of that.
For the full story, pick up a copy of BLUNT Magazine #82, onsale in all good newsagents throughout Australia and New Zealand until August 11, 2009.
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