:: INTERVIEW TO
JACKIE CHAMBERS AND DENISE DUFORT FROM GIRLSCHOOL - versione
italiana
First
of all, what does “Believe” mean for Girlschool today, in 2005?
JACKIE: We wanted to have a very positive album title to represent the way
we felt about the tracks. We feel we have a very diverse album, definitely
something there for everyone.
Is it true that the band has finally found its definitive line
up with Enid Williams back at the bass guitar and the new guitarist Jackie
Chambers?
JACKIE: We think so yes! The chemistry seems to work both live and in the
studio and we’re all enjoying doing what we do. .
Maybe this was missing in the past, just because of the large number
of different musicians who played in the band…
JACKIE: Not necessarily, but we’ve but we have definitely settled down into
this line up and don’t have any plans to change it at this stage.
As far as you are concerned, which songs from the album Believe
could represent at best today’s Girlschool?
JACKIE: I couldn’t pick one single track but the feedback we’ve had so far
indicates that “Come On Up”, “New Beginning”, “We all have to choose”, “Never
say Never” and “Crazy” are the most popular songs.
Don’t you think that songs like “Never Say Never” or “Come On Up”
have a sound closer to the modern pop rock we could easily find in the radio
top ten?
JACKIE: Yeah, I think they do, we spent a little bit more time
than usual on getting the sound to sound more modern but without losing
the original Girlschool sound. We had a great engineer and producer in Tim
Hamill which helped too.
Talking about top ten and… MTV, what do you think about all that
female bands built up by labels producers, who focus just on the good looking
of the members of the band instead of the music?
JACKIE: I’ve never been interested in what band members look like.
If I hear a track on radio and it sounds great then it is great, I couldn’t
care less what the members of the band look like but unfortunately that
is still a big part of popular music, it shouldn’t be but is. I guess time
will tell if a good looking bunch of men or women are just that or whether
they are actually a decent band.
I
remember that in,the first period of your carreer, several people made comparisons
between you and the american Runaways. At that time, this fact made you
angry or was it the chance to show that you were “just” Girlschool?
DENISE: It didn’t make us angry at all in fact we don’t really care who
we get compared to as long as those buying the CD’s judge for themselves
whether they like us or not.
You are one of the first hard-heavy metal female bands who succeed
in being known all around the world. But was it a hard way to run?
DENISE: It’s always difficult to get noticed world wide for both
male and Female bands alike, we were lucky that we toured with so many great
bands back in the 80’s.
What the “power point” of girlschool?
JACKIE: Power point? FULL tilt and nothing else.
What’s your musical background and what do you prefer to listen
to today?
JACKIE: We all love different bands, Kim and Enid grew up on the bands like
Led Zepellin, Deep Purple, AC/DC and Black Sabbath I’ve always been a huge
Alice Cooper fan and loved bands like The Cult, Killing Joke, Lords of the
New Church, a bit of a Goth really, nowadays I’m still listening to Alice
Cooper who¹s as good as ever and bands like Foo Fighters, Rammstein, Linkin
Park, Green Day and Rasmus.
DENISE: I grew up on AC/DC, Deep Purple, Led Zepellin and these days I love
bands like Rammstein.
What could you say today, after so many years, your collaboration
with Motorhead?
DENISE: We’re always going to be associated with Motorhead and that doesn’t
bother us at all, in fact we’ll be playing with them again this year at
their 30th anniversary gig in Hammersmith.
Could we say,….. that if you didn’t made the Bomber tour, maybe
things would be different for you today?
DENISE: Who could say but probably yes.
Who are Girlschool out of stage?
What you see is what you get really with us lot, music is such a huge part
of our lives and has been for such a long period of time we don’t know much
else. We all have hobbies, when I have time I love to play Badminton and
go Kick Boxing. DENISE: I’m a huge movie fan I like to watch DVD after DVD
to relax.
About your tournèe, is that your choice to play only at festivals
or not?
JACKIE: We have quite a few gigs coming up this year as well as Festivals.
We’ll be doing a short double headliner tour with Vixen in June, playing
a few UK shows as well as gigs in the USA, Australia and Europe.
What are Girlschool going to do today? Are they going to take back all the
years they lost and even make ‘em being loved by a younger audience?
JACKIE: Hopefully we’ll always have the old fans that have been really loyal
for years but I think our audiences are getting younger at the moment, which
is fantastic. We’ll just keep playing as long as we still enjoy it and as
long as people come along to see us play.
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