DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring The Chinaskis
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 find The Chinaskis sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and 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.
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?
I’d tempted to say something stupid like the single “Message in a Bottle” by The Police, imagine listening to that on repeat as you slowly descended into madness and dehydration… also, is there a record player? How am I going to play the music – is it a record, or a CD? What’s the speaker setup? So many questions – but I’d choose “Full Moon Fever” by Tom Petty, it’s just the closest to a perfect pop album that there is.
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?
I’d pick “Dookie” by Green Day, just because I had that poster up as a teenager and there’s lots to look at on it.
There's also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What's your tipple of choice?
Absolutely no doubt on this one – a coconut, rum and pineapple-based cocktail for sure, specifically the Kahiki Kai cocktail served out of Frankie’s Tiki Room in Las Vegas… it’s beautiful and strong enough to make even ten years on an island fly by in a jiffy!
Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?
I’d be lost without my 1995 REM European Monster tour t-shirt…
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?
Bill Hicks, for sure. Assuming I can raise him from the dead. You’d never get bored and he’d keep you laughing and thinking about the world.
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?
What’s a Walkman? I’m joking, I’m 45 years old and have had one since I bought my first single on tape – “Do the Bartman” – back in 1990. My favourite live show was probably the Chris Cornell tribute gig in Los Angeles in 2019… Chris has always been an idol of mine, and when he passed it was like a death in the family, so when a bunch of my favourite musicians got together to celebrate his life it was just phenomenal, I think I cried throughout.
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 most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?
Back to Sting, hehe! Actually, I’d send it to him – he’s written about the experience of being marooned, so would be a good support. Plus he’s super fit and healthy with all the tantric shagging he does, so he’d hopefully be able to paddle back to the mainland while I laid out and worked on my tan on a piece of driftwood.
You've been stuck here 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?
I wouldn’t eat anyone in the band – good musicians are too hard to come by. If I had to eat any musician, it’d be Kid Rock. He’s fairly fit as I understand, so that lean muscle would be enjoyable grilled with a pineapple and some freshly caught shrimp. Also in the process I’d be killing Kid Rock, which would be an incredible duty to the people of the planet.
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?
Freddie Mercury, for so many reasons. I’ll never forget getting the chills from music for the first time – it was from listening to “Queen Greatest Hits II”. He’s one of those writers and performers who feels like he’s landed from another dimension: he wasn’t on the planet for long but what a legacy to leave. And can you imagine how much fun it would be being stuck on an island with him?
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