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Q&A: David Cronenberg’s Wife

By | Published on Thursday 19 November 2009

David Cronenbergs Wife

Formed in 2002, London-based antifolkers David Cronenberg’s Wife are the brainchild of Stockport-born singer songwriter Tom Mayne. Described by Mark Lamarr as “where genius meets idiocy”, DCW have a host of disturbing yet humorous songs. The band’s first album ‘Bluebeard’s Rooms’ was released in 2008 and, despite its dark subject matter, was chosen by Q Radio as Album Of The Week and described by The Fly as “one of the albums of the year”. New album ‘Hypnagogues’ is out now on Blang Records and the band are set to play the Autumn Antifolk Festival on the 21 Nov. We spoke to Mayne to ask the Same Six Questions.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
I would play the same two chords over and over again while I was learning the guitar at fifteen. I’d hum the same note over the top in a big drone. I never progressed beyond that!

Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Sleep. That feeling when you wake up hot and groggy at three in the morning and think you should move to a new place and start all over again. But if you move and you feel the same, then what next?

Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?

I have lots of ideas for songs floating around. After a year or so they come together, same thing with the music. Then off to the band for it to be whipped into shape. And I do mean whipped.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?

The sick, bitter, deranged, but extremely polite ones.

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?

I’d ask them how in the world they’d heard about us. Then I’d shut up.

Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?

I hope the new album will be a good introduction to people who haven’t heard us before and a surprise to those that have, as it has quite a different feel compared to ‘Bluebeard’s Rooms’. I’ve mapped out albums three and four already, so I better get started on five. No ambitions, only plans.

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