What's the side of you that the public never sees? Robyn:
Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, SPOCK! I LOVE BUNNIES!! Leon: My acoustic recordings and membership to the Boeremusiekgilde van Suid Afrika. I can play the concertina… Marinus: The side that took my mom to see Michael Bolton live. Mark: My absolute love and affection for my two little girls Eden and Erin!
What do you do to relax? Robyn:
I'm a massive Burton and Poe fan, so anything to do with them is awesome. I also enjoy sculpting, playing guitar, reading mind messing fiction or horror and blasting people into tiny pieces on games! Leon: Giving way too much attention to my guitars; Playing around in the unnecessarily dark little home studio; Watching Dexter (although you don’t relax much…). Marinus: Read horror and suspense novels or play Silent Hill on Playstation. Mark: Cleaning house, changing nappies…oh wait I don’t relax!
Is there a battle of the sexes? - who's winning? Robyn: Leon: Marinus: Mark:
Psshhh, yeah! Girls rule!!... Everyone knows that... Robyn does kinda rule the roost…or so we let her think J Last I checked the guys were ahead in the body odor department... There can only be a battle if one party is intimidated by the other; none of us are intimated by Robyn! We win hands down!
What song of yours are you most proud of? - why? Robyn:
It's hard to choose just one but I'd say Evangelion just because it has such an awesomely graphic music video in my head and it was one of the first songs I wrote for AiA Leon: Difficult to say. I think it is one of our new tracks earmarked for album #2 which has to do with defiance, but it is still very hush hush… Marinus: Blood Hunt Labyrinth...coz I never thought I'd be able to play it, hehehe. Mark: Personally every one of them, as they have pushed me as a drummer to new levels.
Other than this interview, what's the stupidest thing you've ever agreed to do? Robyn:
I once dressed up as Van Gogh for an art class and landed up walking around like that for most of the day pretending to be a madman with an ear fetish. Leon: Stagediving…I weigh more than 100kg… Marinus: Ice skating!!!! Mark: Pretend to be a blind man sitting in Pretoria central street corner, playing on my drum pad and getting money for it!!
Pet peeves about the other members? Robyn:
Hmmm, Mark for trying to kill me by playing our songs at 10000000BPM and hardly breaking a sweat (I'm convinced he's a cyborg sent from a distant planet), Leon for having a physically larger but lighter amp than mine, and Marinus for always looking cooler in photos than what I do - bass flying around all over the place... Leon: Slave driver Robyn? No issues with her… Million mph Mark? He’s good too… Marinus: He always carries my bulky amp like it’s a championship winning belt or the Currie Cup or something, making me look like a pansy for struggling with the thing… Marinus: Where do I start!!! Haha... I don't like that Mark keeps cutting his hair and Leon still outweighs me...as for Robyn...her fingers are too nimble and I struggle to keep up. Mark: In order to keep this interview short it would be better for me not to answer this question.