TRASH MENAGERIE |Dolby Anol talk TRASHY

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Dolby Anol talk TRASHY

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So while I was absent from planet trashmenagerie the past few weeks I managed to interview a few lovely artists at Creamfields Festival – yes it was ages ago (lazy ass I know). The most trashy chat I had all day had to be with Graham from Glasgow two-piece Dolby Anol.

If you haven’t heard of these guys they are a crazy duo residing in Glasgow who on their myspace name-check “the tranny” as their influence. If that’s not enough they have worked together to produce some of the sleeziest and most addictive remixes of late, seriously check out the one below this interview. They seriously make me drool…..anyway on to the interview!

KMD: Have you done any other festivals besides this one?

Graham: Oh Yeah, we did Glastonbury. I don’t ever want to do any other festivals after being to that one I tell ya! Have you ever been?

Yes, and It’s very unpleasant [word changes to protect readers!].
Last year was just purely disgusting. I couldn’t believe it, it’s not mud it’s s%^t & p**s, people I can smell you! I went to see Bjork there and we had travelled for twelve hours to get there from Glasgow and I hadn’t ate but I had two litres of gin in a volvic bottle! I had consumed all the gin by the time she came on stage and I actually fainted when she finally appeared on stage. It wasn’t because I was overwhelmed or anything, I was just like ‘it’s Bjork’ and then fainted!

I woke up half way through ‘Earth Intruders’ and I thought ‘why am I dancing’, but it was in fact two people carrying me! I apparently had a massive lump on my head and which John pointed out then tried to force me to see a medic. They then carted me out of the crowd and left me on my own to go and see a medic while they went back to watch the rest of Bjork!

This festival actually seems a lot better…..

KMD: In what way?

G: Well it seems more civilised for starters. One thing I have noticed is – I have just come up form London and I feel quite ugly there but here I feel remotely good looking, as there seem to be a lot of ugly men around!

KMD: So, any other interesting gigs you can tell us about?

G: Me and John played a gig in Prague once and you know how you have like single, double, king & queen size duvets? [Yes] Is there actually a size bigger than that?

KMD: Erm not sure, why?

G: John and I had this massive duvet and we figured it must be Sultan size! It sounds correct doesn’t it? Well I suppose it could be Emperor size?

KMD: So what’s in the name?

G: People often pronounce it Dolby ANOL, But its actually more Dolby Anal in pronunciation. This is because we wanted something that could sound like double anol but you could play it on radio. We decided over an msn chat that if we were going to be a dance act the name would have to be a little bit technical and a little bit slutty. Dolby is dolby surround whilst anol is well….I think you can work it out!

KMD: Filthy. So why are you with Backyard Records?

G: They asked us.

KMD: Oh so it’s not that complicated?

G: What did you expect – they used homing pigeons to contact us? (ha-ha) No seriously we played with Tronik Youth for our first gig and they liked it so they came to dot-to-dot and they were like yeah we like you.

KMD: What other remixes do you have in the pipeline?

G: Did you hear the Futureheads one?

KMD: Yes

G: Well we actually doing vocal tracks now, we have just done one with Amandah from Operator Please. When I go to London again this week I’m doing some stuff with the girlie from Chrome Hoof, she looks a little like Patti La Belle. It’s going to be a bit Grace Jonesesque, with over the top lyrics and its quite a melodramatic disco track.

KMD: Any album plans?

G: Well it all depends if the public like us!!

KMD: Other plans?

G: Well as you probably know John drums in the band DANANAKORYD. Well he spends half his time with them and half his time with Dolby so I have decided to start a band so I don’t have to sit here twiddling my thumbs. The band is going to be called Get Pregnant. I’m thinking that the music should be like sassy, cocktail hour – kind of ladies night! I have seven synthesizers so it seems only right I should form another band.

KMD: Do you want to spill any gossip about John while he’s not around?

G: He has like three knees! Seriously he has like an extra knee in his left knee, he can bend it in an almost sort of rectangle!

KMD: After those obscene answers I thought I would leave it at that…!

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