expressive and not kept within a box. People like the
late Jimi Hendrix, Tracy Chapman and Terence Trent
D’Arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya) have proven
that Europe is a little more accepting, more giving, and
offers a platform for ar tists to do things outside of
what’s expected of them.
A Native American in London, a stone’s throw from the
stables in Chalk Farm performs to an audience of mop
drop boppers and rock chicks sporting semi precious pinky
rings. A bursting talent, they’re chosen, cutting it close to
what’s expected and what’s real in today’s sonic youth.
So do you think even in today’s music,
there’s still a repetition of artists playing
within the box, with regards to freedom of
expression?
A lot of ar tists don’t believe that they can perform out-
side of the box, because they think something bad is
going to happen if they do. Thankfully, that hasn’t hap-
pened to us but there are a lot of people that feel if
they’re not accepted in a cer tain environment then
whatever they’re doing in life just isn’t working.
We haven’t been together for more than a year yet,
but Los Angeles has accepted us as their own and we
are its own. I mean we perform four or five times a
week to sell-out crowds everywhere. Four of them are
residential and one’s usually an address somewhere, but
for us that wasn’t enough; our mission was to touch
every place.
How did the relationship with I.T.B
(International Talent Booking) come
about?
Well, our manager (Doc McGhee) has been responsi-
ble for the careers of Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Kiss, James
Brown and Diana Ross. It was through him that we met
an amazing friend, Daniel Michael Frances who put the
whole thing together on this side with I.T.B.