{"id":6440,"date":"2008-03-22T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:39:27","slug":"faq-15032008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=6440","title":{"rendered":"FAQ – 15\/03\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview with: Philip Noirjean
\nBy: Nina Mende<\/em><\/small>
\n<\/p>\n

– Are you still in contact with some of your first fans?
\n<\/strong>“Yes, we have some fans which are around since long time, they still come to our show. We used to have another name, I don\u2019t know if you are aware of that. We used to be called Carpe Diem. It\u2019s very funny to see people who are telling you \u201cYeah, we\u2019ve seen you ten years ago when you used to be Carpe Diem\u201d. It\u2019s very funny. ”<\/p>\n

– Did you ever have any doubts about continuing playing music in the way you are doing now?<\/strong>
\n“No! Never! It\u2019s essential. I mean I would die without music. Let\u2019s say it like that. That\u2019s one thing. And music is my therapy, so I would never stop. ”<\/p>\n

– Do you have some funny backstage stories to share with us?<\/strong>
\n*both laughing*
\n“We\u2019ve been on tour with Apoptygma Berzerk, so we have plenty of stories *laughing*. Millions of stories. But that would take too much time. Yeah, it\u2019s always very exciting, depends on who you are traveling with. And usually with Apop the part in the backstage, the after party, is better than the part in the venue. Let\u2019s leave it like that.”<\/p>\n

– Where would you like to see yourself and\/or the band in 5 years??<\/strong>
\n“In five years? At Rock am Ring. *laughing* No, we are just continuing what you are doing and see what happens. Of course you wish to become bigger and better. But it\u2019s the wrong way to think where you want to be in five years. We focus on our next record, we focus on every year and we try our best to be still around in five years.”<\/p>\n

– Is there anyone you would love to work with, that you haven\u2019t?<\/strong>
\n“Yeah, I am a big fan of Moby. I love Moby. He is one of the very few guys who is able to Techno music and Punk music during one live show. The people love him for that. That\u2019s amazing. I love what he\u2019s doing. I\u2019d just like to meet Moby some day. Yeah there are many more, of course.”<\/p>\n

– Like whom? Name some?<\/strong>
\n“Thom Yorke of Radiohead. I\u2019m a big fan of Radiohead. I just like people who are against the commercial stream. Thom Yorke is a very good example for me. ”<\/p>\n

– How do you define “success” for yourself?<\/strong>
\n“It changed. I don\u2019t want to sound like a smart ass. But it changed. A few years ago successful was becoming bigger and better, selling more records. I think the older you get you realize that success is like a satisfying feeling you want to have. At night when you lay down in bed, you want to lay down with a smile no matter what you\u2019re doing and if you reach that day by day I think that\u2019s a biggest success you can reach. It\u2019s not about selling records, it\u2019s not about how big you are. It\u2019s just how happy you are with what you\u2019re doing, I think that\u2019s success and I think that\u2019s the biggest thing you can reach.”<\/p>\n

– What would you be in a circus?<\/strong>
\n“In a circus? What I would be? I definitely wouldn\u2019t ride the horses. I would break a leg. In a circus? Interesting… I would probably like to be the host, or in the orchestra. Maybe the conductor.
\nBut I\u2019d be the clown backstage, not on stage. *both laughing* ”<\/p>\n

– What can we expect from the new album?
\n<\/strong>“A lot! It\u2019s a concept like the Jack the Ripper case. We worked on it for about two years now. And I am like obsessed with the Jack the Ripper case, I studied it for two years, and I traveled the UK, London and so on. So my idea it was to create which involves historical facts combined with personal thoughts about the case and we didn\u2019t want to do a usual pop record because it wouldn\u2019t match with the Jack the Ripper case. That\u2019s why it will be quite more complicated, more towards Nine Inch Nails, IAMX, more that direction. I think that\u2019s the right kind of music for a theme like Jack the Ripper so it\u2019s going to be very different from the last album \u201cIs Pornography Art\u201d. ”<\/p>\n

– Why did you choose that concept for Whitechapel? (the time, London, the story)<\/strong>
\n“I\u2019m just fascinated. And while I traveled the UK I met some people who told me about it. And I started reading about it, and I was just fascinated because it was the first serial killer ever. This year it\u2019s 120 years ago. And that\u2019s the amazing thing, it\u2019s the perfect timing for it. I tend to release it on August 30th, because that was the day of the first murder. I am just getting fascinated by the case, the Victorian England, Jekyll and Hyde and all that. ”<\/p>\n

– Is there any collaboration with anybody on the new album??<\/strong>
\n“No, besides the producer. The producer is Philipp Groth of QNTAL. We wanted to involve more artists, but it took us long enough already to record the whole thing. Involving other artists usually takes even more time, so to have some nice duet or whatever would simply take too much time. That\u2019s why we focused on ourselves.”<\/p>\n

– Why did you work with Jenna Jameson for the album “Is pornography art”?
\n<\/strong>“I\u2019m in personal contact with her for many years and we decided to call the record \u201cIs Pornography Art\u201d so it was a close step to ask her to participate and work with us, since Jenna Jameson tries to close the gap between commercial success and porn. She is one of the very view who brought porn into the commercial outlook. So I asked her since she\u2019s the biggest anyway, and she said yeah. I was really surprised because I thought she\u2019d say \u201ctalk to my lawyers\u201d but she simply said \u201cyeah, let\u2019s do it\u201d.”<\/p>\n

– And how was it working with her?<\/strong>
\n“She\u2019s a very, very busy person. And I made the deal with her, but as it came to what pictures to take we only talked to many people of her management, her former husband and people like that. So I was very little in contact with her then. But yeah, we talked about the artwork and the concept and everything. She agreed and was very easy going. I was very surprised.
\nSo she is quite down to earth?
\nYeah, she is. You wouldn\u2019t even think that since she is the biggest porn artist and the most famous woman in the USA. But she is very down to earth.”<\/p>\n

– Do you have any side projects?
\n<\/strong>“Yeah, I do. I have another band which is called AIX, it\u2019s more like a classical rock pop band like Placebo, Coldplay and that style. We are currently producing our record in Norway by Vegard Blomberg who used to work with Apoptygma Berzerk. And that\u2019s why I was very busy in the last few months because I was about to produce or record two albums at the same with FAQ and AIX. So I was very busy.
\nAnd then I have this other project with, I don\u2019t know if you have heard about it, this fetish stuff.”<\/p>\n

– Yeah, Rubberdolls, right?
\n<\/strong>“Yeah, exactly, Rubberdolls. That\u2019s another thing where we combine live music with fetish performance which became a very unexpected success. So it started out as a joke \u201clet\u2019s do some music with some fetish performance\u201d and all the sudden everybody wanted to book us for fetish events. And I actually became busier than I expected. And we have shows booked all over the world. So I have these three projects.”<\/p>\n

– Keep yourself busy, right?!<\/strong>
\n*both laughing*
\n“Yeah, that\u2019s for sure.” *laughing*<\/p>\n

– What do you think, how important are portals such as myspace, facebook or trig for bands nowadays?<\/strong>
\n“I don\u2019t know about facebook yet, I mean I heard about it. It\u2019s probably like myspace. And I\u2019ve never heard about trig.com either.
\nBut I remember like two years ago when everybody told us \u201cyou don\u2019t have a myspace profile yet?\u201d and I said \u201cwho cares?\u201d. But when I looked into it I realized how important it. And then we built up our profile and all the sudden hell broke loose. So we realized how important it is to keep in touch with fans, people and promoters. What a good opportunity for promoters if they want to get an idea of what you are doing, they check out your profile with some pictures, music and everything. Nobody has the time anymore to check out a complete website.
\nDo you think it\u2019s good though?
\nYeah it is. I hate to say it, but it is. For bands it is very important, there\u2019s no way around it anymore.”<\/p>\n

– Why do you prefer f2f interviews over email interviews?
\n<\/strong>“It\u2019s more personal. If you get an email with questions you answer them but it\u2019s not as spontaneous as you are face to face. On email you think about it, you answer, you write something and you delete it again, and it\u2019s not as spontaneous. And I still think intuition is spontaneous and that\u2019s what you want to read. You don\u2019t want to have anybody thinking 5 minutes for an answer. And it\u2019s nice to meet nice people like you.” *both laughing*<\/p>\n

– How come you decided to call the band FAQ? And not Carpe Diem anymore?
\n<\/strong>“We had to change because we didn\u2019t have the rights for Carpe Diem. There was a classical formation which was called Carpe Diem and they had all the rights for the name to produce merchandise and so on. So one day they knocked on the door of our record company and said we have to put away all the CDs, all the merchandise and whatever, and there was no way around to change our name. And then everybody asked us why we changed our name, and that became a frequently asked question. That\u2019s how it became FAQ.”<\/p>\n

Links:<\/strong>
\nFAQ MySpace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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