FORMATION…
JO: Me, Stace and Steve were playing together for a while. And then we decided we weren’t good enough without another guitarist…
STEVE: We needed blonde!
JO: So the Mean Streaks were playing this show with the Red Paintings and Jacinta’s other band was playing and that’s how I met her.
STACEY: And then I realised when the other guys brought in Jacinta that I’d known her brother for 10 years, so we had that connection.
STEVE: So we had a set with the three of us that were pretty much Stace’s songs that she’d recorded herself, and we somehow conned Jacinta to come along to a practice and scared the shit out of her.
JACINTA: They have a very bizarre sense of humour!
JO: It was three hours of fart jokes. She didn’t talk.
JACINTA: I was scared to!

SONGWRITING…
STACEY: I’d written most of the songs about a year beforehand just on a computer, just mucking around because I wasn’t in a band at the time. And then Jo came up to me one day and said ‘you should be in a band, I’ll start a band with you’ so I went ‘okay’. What they’ve brought to the songs is amazing and I can’t wait to write with everyone. The next lot of stuff will be a lot of different, with all of our input. There’s one song so far that we co-wrote, Sweet Sweet Cones. Jo came up with the bassline and I came up with the chorus.
STEVE: The song’s about ice creams…

THE LONELY GUY…
STEVE: It’s very different from any band I’ve been in. There’s no guys! There’s a lot less ego…
JO: A lot more vagina talk!
STEVE: I get to hear some things that no male should hear. There’s this strange boob envy –
JO: Me and Jacinta are jealous of Stacey’s boobs!
STACEY: And they’re not even all that!
STEVE: But in this band it’s nowhere near as full on as far as getting ideas across, it all works a lot easier. Everyone’s a lot more open-minded then previous band’s I’ve been in.

THE BUTCHER BIRD MOST LIKELY TO THROW A ROCK STAR TANTRUM…
STEVE: Me!
JACINTA: He does it all the time!
JO: And you’d think it’d be a fucking girl, but no, it’s Steve.
STEVE: I’m more of a girl than these three!
STACEY: I used to get really upset by it, but Steve said ‘just tell me to shut up’, so I’m just going to do that from now on.
STEVE: Most of my tantrums are when I’m tired…
JACINTA: Or hungwy!

AND OF COURSE, JAMES SPADER…
ALL THE GIRLS: We fucking love James Spader!
STEVE: Uh-oh, we’re getting onto James Spader…
JO: He’s a dirty perve!
JACINTA: I know and it makes me so excited! That guy makes me cream my pants!

The Butcher Birds play Tongue & Groove on Thursday August 31. Look out for their debut EP soon, and check out the band’s MySpace in the meantime: myspace.com/butcherbirds
 

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