Blood Duster. Jason PC Fuller interview by Nutso Ward.
Europe, you better lock up your bitches and hide the fucking drugs, Blood Duster are about to wreak havoc. That's the vibe coming from Blood Duster chief, bassist Jason PC, several days before the Aussie death stars began their invasion of Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, England, France, Italy, Slovenia and the Czech Republic (not to mention Japan). Despite being in a lastminute pre-tour rush getting everything prepared for the release of the Duster's first DVD, The Shape Of Death To Come, and the reissue of their first album Fisting The Dead (Again), PC still found time to give this cracking UNBELIEVABLY Bad interview. You're heading to Europe; you must be pumped. We go away on Monday so it's pretty close. I've been doing all this fucking work just trying to get everything done because the DVD is out on the 1st [of August] and we're back on the 1st. You really need a week for that shit. Shit like making sure the posters are going to be done, booking all the print ads, booking all the store windows three months in advance; window displays are a cunt. Plus, all the other shit I have to do like trying to convince everyone in the band that we'll get into England without work visas.
good album. I fuckin' love it.
Just show up with all your equipment going, “We're not really here to play shows, we're backpackers!” Well, the plan we've got now is [to say], “Nah nah, we've just done a tour of Europe and we're coming here for a holiday. We can't leave our gear in Europe.” A couple of American bands pulled it off last week so I feel a bit better about the whole scam now. Hey, did I hear you've been going around dissing the new Electric Six album?
It sounds funny but I fucking hate that band. I fucking love 'em. It's awesome. He says “Fire” on that album thirty-something times, and “Nuclear War” thirty-something times. Whenever he's stuck for a word he just pops out “Fire” or “Nuclear War”.
Yeah. You don't like the Electric Six? It's a fuckin'
I would expect that. And how could you not like that Queen cover [“Radio Ga Ga”]? Have you seen the video? It's got Freddie Mercury written on a gravestone and the singer [Dick Valentine] pops up with a moustache and these buck teeth in this leotard looking like Freddie Mercury dancing on his grave with a ghetto blaster. Then when it gets to the guitar bit it's got all these poodles busting some moves like Brian May, it's fuckin' awesome.
Some of their shit is like the riff from the Screaming Jets' “Better”, like shit that you would be embarrassed to have come up with in your bedroom let alone to play to anyone. Exactly! It makes me happy every time I hear it. I love the fact that someone followed through with an idea like that.
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Can we expect plenty of shitty ideas from the new Shape Of Death To Come DVD? We've got crack smoking on there… We were outside of Albury in this tiny shithole of a hotel. We'd just played the worst gig we've ever done, had like 20 people there. So we went back and smoked crack at this little hotel. The pool looked like a pool of mud or green slime with a sign saying “Don't Swim” and we're in a room with the door open smoking crack thinking we're cool as fuck. It was exactly like you would imagine, pulling into the shittiest place ever on the outskirts of Albury and someone pulls out their stash of crack it's like, “Wicked.” So that's on there. We've got live stuff from the last few years. We've got a full live show, which is pretty ugly. It's five cameras, we didn't do any 5.1 surround sound because most of