Interview with Emilie Autumn
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Artist:
Galleries:
- Emilie Autumn - 2012-03-21 (Concerts)
- Independent Festival 2008 - 2008-11-06 (Festivals)
- Emilie Autumn + Lucas Lanthier - 2007-12-17 (Concerts)
- M'era Luna 2007 - 2007-08-09 (Festivals)
CDs catalogue:
- Emilie Autumn - Fight Like a Girl CD
- Emilie Autumn - Opheliac [Deluxe Second Edition] 2CD
- Emilie Autumn - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun CD
- Emilie Autumn - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun & Bohemian Rhapsody EP
- Emilie Autumn - Swallow DJ-Single DJ-Single
- Emilie Autumn - Dead Is The New Alive DJ-Single
- Emilie Autumn - A Bit O' This & That CD Digipak
- Emilie Autumn - 4 O'Clock EP
- Emilie Autumn - Laced / Unlaced (Standard Edition) 2CD
- Emilie Autumn - Laced / Unlaced (Russian Edition) Format
- Emilie Autumn - Liar / Dead Is The New Alive (Back-Is-Front Edition) MCD
- Emilie Autumn - Opheliac EP Limited Edition
- Emilie Autumn - Enchant CD
- Emilie Autumn - On A Day... CD
- Emilie Autumn - By The Sword CDS
How has the tour been going on? What was the least/the most pleasurable thing you've ever experienced while touring?
EA: The tour has been one of the most fascinating experiences of my life in that the reaction I’ve been seeing from the Plague Rats is so different than what I’ve always known it to be. Plague Rats have always been the most passionate of audiences, completely devoted and there to sing and interact with us, but this time around, with the ‘Fight Like A Girl’ tour and the new music, everything is so much more emotional, more intense, and we are all experiencing this on a deeper level.
Now, to the most pleasurable/displeasurable experience…I was just attacked a few shows ago in Nottingham, UK, by one of my own antique Victorian medical tools – a giant steel syringe to be specific about it. Initially, this wasn’t a very good thing, being knocked in the side of the head by a piece of heavy metal, and it wasn’t the most enjoyable experience spending the night in the hospital afterwards, but playing a show with blood streaming down my face from an open head wound? That was fucking punk rock awesomeness…
Could you tell us something more about the general idea/concept of you latest album? What message does it convey? How do you perceive the idea of "Fighting like a Girl"?
EA: The actual title and concept, "Fight Like A Girl", is all about taking back words and phrases that have been used for decades if not centuries to insult boys and ridicule girls. What I intend to do is to take back those words and phrases, and turn something meant to weaken me and my sisters into a source of pride and power. Women often forget that we are not the minority, as we are told so often that we are. And the whole beauty of it is that what is good for women is equally good for men. Real men know this. My gentlemen Plague Rats understand this perfectly, and they fight alongside us, paw in paw. We are on the same side, and we give strength to one another.
What does the ART mean to you? How did it influence your self-development as a person? What is the most important branch of it to you, apart from music, naturally?
EA: If one is an artist, it is not a thing one does. It is a way one lives. It is present in everything, from the way one serves the tea in the morning to how one does one’s hair, or walks down a street, or writes a letter. This is why I find it so easy, and also so important, to utilize multiple avenues to create art, and not limited to music, but painting, costume making, writing, etc., as well. The way of the artist is not to be inspired by a particular thing, but to find inspiration in everything.
Where do you draw your inspirations from? Do you ever happen to have the "writer's block"? If so, how do you deal with it?
EA: I’ve only experienced any sort of writer’s block when I was afraid to write what I knew had to be written. Getting over the silence isn’t always about not having anything to say, but rather about being afraid to say it. Getting over the fear is the important thing.
How important is the image to you? Do you think you would be able to convey the same message, be as persuasive as you are, without the whole image?
EA: The image will stop being important when everybody comes to the show in blindfolds.
Where does the idea of The Bloody Crumpets come from?
EA: In the mid 19th century, there began a secret society of female stage performers devoted to spiritualism, magic, and the sisterhood. They called themselves the Bloody Crumpets. We are representatives of those women, and are keeping the society alive.
What is in store for us as far as your future is concerned?
EA: Well, I’m turning my book, ‘The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls’ into a Broadway-style musical production. As it is to be over three hours in length and with a cast of forty, this should take me a bit of time. We’ve got a debut date of 2014 on London’s West End, so I’d better get back to work…
Is there anything you'd like to tell your Polish fans?
EA: Only this: Raise your paws! Bare your claws! The revolution is beginning. I hope you’re ready to fight…
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EA: The tour has been one of the most fascinating experiences of my life in that the reaction I’ve been seeing from the Plague Rats is so different than what I’ve always known it to be. Plague Rats have always been the most passionate of audiences, completely devoted and there to sing and interact with us, but this time around, with the ‘Fight Like A Girl’ tour and the new music, everything is so much more emotional, more intense, and we are all experiencing this on a deeper level.
Now, to the most pleasurable/displeasurable experience…I was just attacked a few shows ago in Nottingham, UK, by one of my own antique Victorian medical tools – a giant steel syringe to be specific about it. Initially, this wasn’t a very good thing, being knocked in the side of the head by a piece of heavy metal, and it wasn’t the most enjoyable experience spending the night in the hospital afterwards, but playing a show with blood streaming down my face from an open head wound? That was fucking punk rock awesomeness…
Could you tell us something more about the general idea/concept of you latest album? What message does it convey? How do you perceive the idea of "Fighting like a Girl"?
EA: The actual title and concept, "Fight Like A Girl", is all about taking back words and phrases that have been used for decades if not centuries to insult boys and ridicule girls. What I intend to do is to take back those words and phrases, and turn something meant to weaken me and my sisters into a source of pride and power. Women often forget that we are not the minority, as we are told so often that we are. And the whole beauty of it is that what is good for women is equally good for men. Real men know this. My gentlemen Plague Rats understand this perfectly, and they fight alongside us, paw in paw. We are on the same side, and we give strength to one another.
What does the ART mean to you? How did it influence your self-development as a person? What is the most important branch of it to you, apart from music, naturally?
EA: If one is an artist, it is not a thing one does. It is a way one lives. It is present in everything, from the way one serves the tea in the morning to how one does one’s hair, or walks down a street, or writes a letter. This is why I find it so easy, and also so important, to utilize multiple avenues to create art, and not limited to music, but painting, costume making, writing, etc., as well. The way of the artist is not to be inspired by a particular thing, but to find inspiration in everything.
Where do you draw your inspirations from? Do you ever happen to have the "writer's block"? If so, how do you deal with it?
EA: I’ve only experienced any sort of writer’s block when I was afraid to write what I knew had to be written. Getting over the silence isn’t always about not having anything to say, but rather about being afraid to say it. Getting over the fear is the important thing.
How important is the image to you? Do you think you would be able to convey the same message, be as persuasive as you are, without the whole image?
EA: The image will stop being important when everybody comes to the show in blindfolds.
Where does the idea of The Bloody Crumpets come from?
EA: In the mid 19th century, there began a secret society of female stage performers devoted to spiritualism, magic, and the sisterhood. They called themselves the Bloody Crumpets. We are representatives of those women, and are keeping the society alive.
What is in store for us as far as your future is concerned?
EA: Well, I’m turning my book, ‘The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls’ into a Broadway-style musical production. As it is to be over three hours in length and with a cast of forty, this should take me a bit of time. We’ve got a debut date of 2014 on London’s West End, so I’d better get back to work…
Is there anything you'd like to tell your Polish fans?
EA: Only this: Raise your paws! Bare your claws! The revolution is beginning. I hope you’re ready to fight…
Other articles:
- Emilie Autumn - 2012-04-02 (Live reports)
- M'era Luna 2007 - 2007-10-09 (Live reports)
