“It doesn’t matter what you do, if you’re not a straight white male you’re going to get more harshly criticised than other people so you might as well just do whatever the fuck you want.”
Feb 12, 2012 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Babes In Toyland, Bianca Valentino Interview, Bikini KIll, Carmine Covelli, Dan Fishback, feminism, Johanna Fateman, Kaia Wilson, Kat Bjelland, Kathi Wilcox, Kathleen Hanna, Kenny Mellman, Le Tigre, Lori Barbero, Lydia Lunch, lyrics, Michelle Leon, Neal Medlyn Wicked Clown Love, Olympia, Riot Grrrl, Riot Grrrl collection NYU, Rock N Roll Camp for Girls, Sarah Landeau, Sini Anderson, The Julie Ruin, The Kathleen Hanna Project, The Punk Singer (documentary), Tobi Vail, Young Jean Lee Untitled Feminist Show | 8 Comments »
“The music that I listen to, I feel like it’s really something that saves me. It’s escapism. It’s comfort.”
Jan 15, 2012 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino Interview, Bikini KIll, feminism, Kate Nash, Rock 'n' Roll For Girls After School Club, Ryan Jarman, sexism etc, sexism in the music industry, The Receeders, zines | 1 Comment »
When do songs stop being heartfelt? When do they start being routine and start being completely meaningless?
Nov 08, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: Alan McGee, Annie Hardy, Bianca Valentino, Chelmsford, Everett True, fanzines, Jerry Thackray, Kimya Dawson, Nathan Howdeshell, Patty Schemel, The Legend | Leave A Comment »
If I’m feeling sick or down music is really quite nourishing.
Sep 20, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane | Tags: 80s Brisbane music scene, Akira, Axl Rose, Band In A Bubble, Ben Ely, Ben Ely's Radio 5, Bianca Valentino Interview, Boredoms, Brisbane music, Broken Head, Celeste Potter, Conversations With Punx, Dave Atkins, Fat, Glenn Brady, Jhonny Russell & the Mystery School, Jimi Sinclair, Jump 2 Light Speed, Martin Lee, Nana Mouskouri, Ouch My Face, Ozzy Osbourne, PANGAEA, Pow Pow Wow, Puff The Magic Dragon, Quan Yeomans, Regurgitator, Regurgitator Rock Show, Resin Dogs, Simon And Garfunkel, The Beatles, The Boredoms, the Candy Man, The Dreamkillers, The Stalkers, Wolfmother | 1 Comment »
We’re all secretly struggling.
Sep 19, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Aesop Rock, All I Can Do, Bianca Valentino Interview, Buddhism, Conversations With Punx, Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band, Juno, Kimya Dawson, midfulness meditation, Olympia, Pablo Das, Remember That I Love You, self-esteem, self-love, The Moldy Peaches, Thunder Thighs, Walk Like Thunder | 4 Comments »
by Bianca Valentino Catcall is the latest musical project from Sydney-based musician Catherine Kelleher. Kelleher first performed as frontwoman for Australian DIY punk band Kiosk in the early 00s. Upon returning home from a 2006 Kiosk US tour Kelleher had a life changing moment (which she talks about here) and after much soul searching decided [...]
Jul 25, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: 80s girl pop, Bananarama, Bianca Valetino, Black Flag, Bratmobile, Bush, Cat Power, Catcall, Catherine Kelleher, Christine McVie, Chromatics, Dry July, Everclear, Fleetwood Mac, Fugazi, Glass Candy, Grace Jones, Hole, Homebake Festival, interview, Kim Gordon, Kiosk, M.I.A., Madonna, Michael Flatley, Molly Neuman, Nathan Howdeshell, Pam Hogg, Patti Smith, Portland, Reef, Roxy Music, Serge Lutens, Sonic Youth, Sydney, The Germs, The Go-Go's, The Gossip | 1 Comment »
Most people just turn the other way for success. I think we’ve had a career of uncompromising vision.
Jul 19, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Alan Moulder, Angels of Light, Annie Hardy, Ariel Pink, Art by Jhonny Russell, Bianca Valentino, Born Against, Buddyhead, Captain Beefheart, Dave Sardy, Def Leppard, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Giant Drag, Greg Gordon, Guns N\' Roses, Hard Rock Cafe, Icarus Line, Il Torquemada, interview, James Brown, Joe Cardamone, Los Angeles music scene, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Mike Mussmano, Music criticism, Oasis, Roar Scratch Records, Sly Stone, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Supergrass, The Beatles, The Icarus Line, The Stooges, The Strokes, Valley Recording Co., Wade Robinson, Wild Thing, Wildlife | 1 Comment »
I don’t think any of my guitar solos are any of the right notes or anything.
Jul 17, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: art-punk, australian music, Ben Wundersitz, Bianca Valentino, Bjork, Bon Jovi, Boris, Camp A Low Hum, Celeste Potter, creating art, criticism, difficulties of writing music, Emilíana Torrini, Guns N\' Roses, Illustration by Jhonny Russell, interview, múm, Melbourne, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, OOIOO, Ouch My Face, Rage, rage against the machine, Regurgitator, Rolling Stone Australia, SBS documentary Go Back To Where You Came From, sexism, Shaun Tan, Slash, Song Of The Day, Steven Huf, The Arrivals, The Boredoms, The Liars, Valve | 1 Comment »
“Music is what I believe in, in the way that some people have religion.”
Jul 12, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Adele, Bianca Valentino, creativity, Friendly Fires, gil scott-heron, Gil Scott-Heron R.I.P., I'm New Here, Jack White, M.I.A., richard russell, The Horrors, The White Stripes, Tyler The Creator, XL Recordings | Leave A Comment »
Molly Neuman is one amazing lady! — a musician, the original Riot Grrrl, business woman and so much more.
Jul 07, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino, Bratmobile, cooking, DIY, DIY business, Doctor Annemarie Colbin, eMusic, exercise, food & healing, Girls Germs zine, Greenday, interview, Lookout Records, meditation, Molly Neuman, musicians health & wellbeing, Olympia, Rancid, recipes, Riot Grrrl, Riot Grrrl zine, Simple Social Graces Discos, Simple Social Kitchen, Steady Diet of Nothing, SxSW, Ted Leo, The Donnas, The Frumpies, The Locust, The Natural Gourmet Institute, the PeeChees, Tia Foundation, yoga | Leave A Comment »
Our first show was in somebody’s basement at their parents’ house. Their parents would let them have punk shows. I don’t even know if people do that anymore?
Jul 04, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: '80s dance, basement shows, Bianca Valentino, Bikini KIll, Bratmobile, Cyndi Lauper, D.I.Y., Designer Imposter, Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, Grace Jones, Gunk zine, hip-hop, Jigsaw zine, Joan Jett, Johnna Fateman, Kathleen Hanna, Klub Kid Vintage, Lunachicks, New York City Music, New York City Police, Police Revolution Now, Poly Styrene, punk rock, punk zines, queen latifah, Ramdasha Bikceem, Riot Grrrl, Riot Grrrl zine, Run DMC, Santi White, teen punk, Theo Kogan, Tobi Vail, X-Ray Spex | 2 Comments »
I don’t view music as a competition at all.
Jun 30, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: 7 Seconds, Alan Lomax, American Idol, Art Throb, Back to the Future, Beth Ditto, Bianca Valentino, Bikini KIll, Black Eyed Peas, Black Flag, Bratmobile, Britian's Got Talent, Children of the Corn, Conversations With Punx, DIY, Everett True, Fast Weapons, Footloose, Gene Defcon, HTRK, Huggy Bear, Ian MacKaye, Illustration by Jhonny Russell, kill rock stars, Kurt Cobain, Molly Neuman, MTV, Music criticism, Nathan Howdeshell, near death experience, Nirvana, NME, Olympia, punk rock, Riot Grrrl, Rolling Stone, skateboarding, spirituality, Suicidal Tendencies, The Frumpies, The Germs, The Gossip, The Velvet Underground, Thrasher Magazine, Tobi Vail, zines | 2 Comments »
You want to stay in that comfort zone. It helps you block out the world.
Jun 24, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Beat Happening, Bianca Valentino, Catholic Discipline, Celebrity Skin, Constant Comment, Courtney Love, Doll Squad, drug addiction, drug rehabilitation, Drunk In Rio, Eric Erlandson, female drummer, Frances Bean Cobain, Gina Schock, Green Eyes, Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, Hole, Kill Sybil, Kristen Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Melissa Auf de Maur, Moe Tucker, Musicares, Musicians Assistance Program, Nervous Gender, Nirvana, P. David Ebersole, Patty Schemel, Penelope Spheeris, Phranc, Seattle International Film Festival, Sebadoh, The Decline Of Western Civilization, The Exploited, The Go-Go's | 5 Comments »
Would you rather lick Vegemite off a dingo’s nose or eat kangaroo testicles?
Apr 17, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Australian street press, Battlecat, Bianca Valentino, Bootsy Collins, David Guetta, Doggumentary, Dr Dre, George Clinton, Gorillaz, High Times, Hit List TV, Hot Tomato, Kanye West, Kylie Minogue, Label Magazine, Luther Vandross, MX, Nine News, Rolling Stone, Scott Storch, Snoop Dogg, Sweat, Take You Home, The Gold Coast Bulletin, the Royal Wedding, The Sunday-Mail, Too Short, Willie Nelson | 9 Comments »
Taqwacore to me is a genre of punk that specifically deals with the political climate surrounding Muslims post 9/11. For Secret Trial Five it gave us a community in which to bounce off ideas, talk to, strategize, tour with, and relate to.
Mar 28, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Anti-Flag, Bianca Valentino, Black Flag, Conversations With Punx, punk rock, Secret Trial Five, Sena Hussain, ST5, Taqwacore | Leave A Comment »
When religious organisations get together to protest gay people’s right to be married or happy, I will be happy to read about them getting a foot up their ass.
Mar 22, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino, Black Flag, Conversations With Punx, Fugazi, Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Minor Threat, The Evens, The Rollins Band | 3 Comments »
Reggae and country can be just as spiritual as metal. It’s the intention behind it. For me, Miles Davis and Bob Dylan are fucking punk
Mar 03, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino, Conversations With Punx, Deftones, Far, Gratitude, interview, Joe Matranga, Lupe Fiasco, New End Original, Onelinedrawing, spirituality, Thursday | Leave A Comment »
I look at my history and see myself as a fallen angel.
Feb 07, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Big Audio Dynamite, Conversations With Punx, Don Letts, Punk Attitude, punk rock, reggae, The Clash, The Punk Rock Movie, The Roxy, The Sex Pistols, The Slits | Leave A Comment »
An old-fashioned punk thing would be if anything started to be too professional, you’d smash it. You couldn’t have any rules.
Feb 04, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino, Conversations With Punx, Gilman, God, Green Day, hippies, Larry Livermore, Lookout Records, M.D.C., Marshall McLuhan, punk rock, Screeching Weasel, The Adolescents, The Circle Jerks, The Lookouts, the Mr T Experience, the Potatomen, The Queers, Youth of Today | Leave A Comment »
It’s Collapse Board’s pleasure to introduce the first in a new series: extracts from Conversations with Punx. I have long been an admirer of Brisbane writer Bianca Valentino’s interview style: the (full) examples I’ve seen are so in-depth and revealing and soulful. They show an obvious attnetion to detail and to the other person that [...]
Nov 19, 2010 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Ari Up, Bianca Valentino, Conversations With Punx, Cut, punk rock, The Clash, The Slits | 1 Comment »
Patty Schemel – The Collapse Board Interview
You want to stay in that comfort zone. It helps you block out the world.
Jun 24, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Beat Happening, Bianca Valentino, Catholic Discipline, Celebrity Skin, Constant Comment, Courtney Love, Doll Squad, drug addiction, drug rehabilitation, Drunk In Rio, Eric Erlandson, female drummer, Frances Bean Cobain, Gina Schock, Green Eyes, Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, Hole, Kill Sybil, Kristen Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Melissa Auf de Maur, Moe Tucker, Musicares, Musicians Assistance Program, Nervous Gender, Nirvana, P. David Ebersole, Patty Schemel, Penelope Spheeris, Phranc, Seattle International Film Festival, Sebadoh, The Decline Of Western Civilization, The Exploited, The Go-Go's | 5 Comments »