Interview by Daniel W. Gonzales
Daniel W. Gonzales: So Kelly and crew, introduce yourselves and tell me what you do in the band. What you play and your name and so forth? Kelly: Hello Danny! I’m Kelly Von Blonde aka Profunda Saint-Sylvain, singer/guitar player, this here is the lovely Llisa Bastard aka the Belle from Hell on bass guitar, and Lady Laura aka Drip on the drums. DWG: How long have you been together and how did you come up with the name Fist Kitten? Kelly: Fist Kitten is a fairly new project, actually. It started off as a diversion for Llisa and I when our last project The Cock went on an unusually long hiatus. I hadn’t picked up a guitar since high school, so it wasn’t intended as a serious venture, I kind of just wanted to see if I could actually remember how to play anything, but after a couple hours jamming we had two pretty catchy tunes down and decided to keep going with it. A couple weeks later I was chatting with Laura, my close friend and neighbor, and she was talking about how she played drums back in school, which in all honesty I probably should have remembered since we’ve known each other since the seventh grade, so I invited her to jam with us. Since then we’ve been just writing like crazy, learning a few covers, and getting tighter every week. The name actually was something I’d had kicking around in my head for a few years. I don’t remember the exact circumstances that led up to it, but I do know it involved large amounts of Black Label Ale, an apartment full of irritable cats with bladder infections, and waking up on a city bus at three in the morning. 26