Premonition Magazine interviews David Thrussell

In which "psychological state" are you with the current situation between
the USA and Iraq?
disgusted but sadly not surprised...the american empire is on the warpath and it's disinterest in the opinion of it's "allies" and others is now very clear for all to see...
while the poor people of iraq go through hell there are some small positives...some opposition to the great white satan is now evident...

What could each of us make individually against this forthcoming war?
disengage from the american/u.k/australian bullshit machine...don't give them your support or your money and never believe one single thing they say...civil disobedience and protest do produce some result so engage in these if you have the opportunity...
for good war informations go to: www.aeronautics.ru
www.indymedia.org
www.copvcia.com

What is the position of the Australians and of the Australian government?
the australian government is tonguing the american arse so deeply that it has brown cheeks...the australian people are generally opposed to the war but it makes no difference to the government...it answers directly to washington...mmmm...???...and yet the zombies still like to think we live in a democracy...ho ho ho...

Do you remember exactly what you did on September 11th 2001?
we had just returned from new york!...had finished some snog shows there...i was recovering from jet lag at my friend's place when the telephone started ringing off the hook...

What passed to you in the head at this time?
i wondered how far it would go...you remember at the time there was constant talk of 8 planes hijacked...where did they go?...i wondered if it was the start of a war...in the following days i became very suspicious...where was the evidence?...where were the airforce?...no correct answers have yet been provided...

How do you have "discovered" Chris Woods?
we saw his great art in the fine magazine "adbusters" and contacted him...he's a very nice chap!...

His drawings are special creations for you, or it's you who chose from his
existing works?
he has many published and unpublished works...we choose from these...i am very happy with the "beyond the valley of the proles" art because it fits so beautifully the music and the "vibration"...

Snog and Chris Woods, it's a sort of "ideal couple"? You think that you
will continue a long time to use his paintings?
yes...quite possibly...

Your two last albums were censured in Australia, because of their covers?
yes...they are banned in australia due to commercial pressures...the macdonalds fast food corporation attempted to sue the band, our label, the distributors, record stores, our tour promoter, radio stations, music press and others!...they also placed private investigators and surveilance on us...australia has no legal protection for freedom of speech or freedom of artistic expression so it was easier to attack us here than other places...australia is the playground for the new world order-nazi elite!...

You never had problem directly with MacDonalds or Nike?
no...we had problem with them dirctly!...

Are you sure that it's the system which it is necessary to "denounce",
not the people who accept and make function this system every day of their
life?
both...but i'm ambiguous about always denouncing...sometimes we just catalogue the horrors and make small nursery rhymes about the everyday life...sometimes we make nursery rhymes about the internal struggles aswell...we paint dark abstract canvases anchored in the mundane and yet fighting toward the stars...to bravely bleep and strum where few have bleeped and strummed before...

Regarding your last album, I dared the comparisons with Death In June and
Wall Of Voodoo. Does it seem to you completely weak, are you agree, or at
least you see what I mean?
i think those comparisons are fine...i have interest in both those groups, though for different reasons...what matters to me is the song and communication...when you turn the record off i want something to stay with you...some small trace of a new idea or hint of a new friend who wishes you well...

You musical position is closer to Lea Hazzelowood or Converter?
exposed!!!!...in fact i am lee hazlewood trapped inside a sampler circuit board!...help!...help me!!!...i must escape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

"Third Mall From the Sun" was the most electronic of all the albums of
Snog. With the last one you propose the most beautiful ballades which you
never made. How do you explain these important variations?
the soul yearns to be free...the spirit shifts and mutates...like valiant knights we quest for the purest expression of our muse...
roaming the land for the most delicate melody, the sickest electronic beat and the most yearning lyric...perhaps we may yet find our grail...the perfect electro-folk hybrid...

You are a member of MACOS which is an organization against the
copyrighting of samples. You can tell me more about that?
sonic liberationists get naked with the chattering wires...sound and art are born free...only fools or paid dupes attempt to enslave ideas...their days are numbered...viva la m.a.c.o.s!!!!!!!!!!...

Do you have children?
only those spawned by the seeds of our musical love...our children are everywhere and come in all different shapes and types...our love for them is as profound as it is fleeting...

What are your wishes for their future...
synthetic nudist colony of organic mango eating country pickin' pagan spiritualists...gang-banging groove hipsters rolling in a tub of concord grapes...revolutionary freaks on a monday at the beach...

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