DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring Red Spektor.
Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil's Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It's not your average desert island and we'll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.
This week when we arrived at Devil's Island we found Red Spektor sat on the beach. Their home is far from the sea, let alone our Island, so how did they end up here?
How did they cope with life on Devil's Island? Find out now...
Welcome to The Razors'e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don't worry about it's name I'm sure it's not as bad as that would suggest.
So you're marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn't live without. Which album did you each chose and why?
John: Slayer - South of Heaven as its just ace!
Rob: Graveyard - Hisingen Blues, as it just keeps giving and giving, I can listen to that album forever. Or it would be Uncle Acid - Blood Lust for the same reason.
Jonny: Pink Floyd - Animals, it’s an album I’ve been listening to a lot recently and rediscovering the formula of what makes them such a good band.
Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to stay in, with enough space for you to put up a poster on the wall of one album cover. What album cover do you each chose?
John: The poster that comes with the Best of Blondie, because it’s a really good photo of Debbie Harry.
Jonny: Ice T’s Power album, an album cover that accompanied me quite often through my frustrated teenage years.
Rob: Ha, I’m sensing a theme, mine is Jimmy Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland, because of its excellent photography!?
There's also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to chose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What's your tipple of choice?
Rob: My drink is pretty much anything, but my favourite is bourbon
John: For me coffee
Jonny: Tea for me, it’s the taste
Rob: We can always share…. can’t we? I need all three of those!
Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. Whats the merch and for what band?
John: I would have the skateboard by Kadavar and make a mini surfboard and attach it to a dolphin and ride my way back home
Rob: A crate of Motorhead bourbon for me, just in case the bar runs out, I’ll be drinking it chilling as I watch John surf off into the distance.
Jonny: A KISS coffin? So hopefully any potential rescue mission would think I’m already dead and not attempt to rescue me and take me back to Crewe!
You're sat on the island thinking "I'm stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity"... who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?
John: The Queen as long as she brought the Britannia with her moored up and ready to go so, I can get home, that or a member of the SAS
Jonny: It’d have to be someone funny like Frankie Boyle and a good storyteller
Rob: or we could shipwreck all the arseholes of the world and then eat them, like President Trump and Putin. You’d have to keep them alive while you ate them, so the meat stayed fresh.
There's a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?
Rob: For me it would be Primus - Suck on This album (live at the Berkeley Square) that’s the first live album I liked, before that I thought live albums sucked.
Jonny: The Who live at Leeds
John: Rory Gallagher Irish Tour
You're getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the one musician most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?
John: Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden to get in his damn plane and fly me out on Ed Force one to make our mate Andy Shardlow (bass player of the Kings Pistol) jealous and Rob can tell Steve Harris to stop doing those galloping basslines on the flight back.
Rob: Ha, that would upset Andy. I would have Anthony Kiedis as he is one of the Dead Presidents in Point Break, no not that one, the good one, and would be able to use his skills to come get us
Jonny: Steve Ignorant from Crass who coincidentally was a volunteer sea lifeguard for sea palling beach. Not that I’d want rescuing.
You've been stuck here for a while and food supplies are running low. There's only one thing for it... which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?
Rob: Well as it happens, we just hired a keyboardist before the tour. I hate keyboards so he’s first.
Jonny: What about the flutist, did we not hire one of them as well?
Rob: Did we, when did we agree to that? Crikey I hate them more, I’m eating them first, then the keyboardist.
Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?
John: Do they still have to be alive? If so it would be John Frusciante ‘cause he’s got a beautiful outlook on life.
Jonny: I don’t know, all my heroes are dead
Rob: Well it turns out we got shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle and there the past collides with the future, so it can be anyone, dead or alive. So, I’m picking Cliff Burton.
John: It’ll be Rory Gallagher then
Jonny: Then its Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth
Rob: John, I think we have just put ourselves out of the band. As we watch Jonny sail off to be the drummer with the supergroup we just saved.
Jonny: The hell I am! I’m hiding in the KISS coffin!!
Sadly there is no room on our boat to help rescue the lads, so with the bar restocked with their cocktails of bourbon, coffee and tea we set sail. As we drift away from the island we can see the band cooking the keyboardist atop their campfire. At least they won't go hungry for a while.
Hopefully we'll see you back on dry land soon!
