DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring Crone Tye
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 Crone Tye 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?
Mik: Rammstein - Made in Germany. Good music for building my swiss family Robinson style treehouse.
Tye: I’ll probably go for something like Infamous or Graveyard Shift by Motionless In White purely because of the variety. They’re a band that can cohesively weave together a lot of styles I love and do so very well on those records. There’s industrial, nu-metal, rock, metalcore, post-hardcore all blended into a unique sound, it’s like microdosing a lot of my favourite artists within an original soundtrack.
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?
Mik: David Lee Roth - Eat ‘Em and Smile. It looks cool and very tribal. I would probably try to copy the face paint and headdress. When in Rome…
Tye: Streetcleaner - Godflesh, fiery and apocalyptic.
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?
Mik: Red wine. There is a story that Al Jourgensen from Ministry had a lot of stomach ulcers. The Dr suggested he drank red wine. Spirits are ok but they wreck your insides. If there is no alcohol I would choose a can of sugar free energy drink.
Tye: Well, I might as well go crazy and have fun so…let’s say ginger beer, I’m straight edge and try eat and drink healthy but I’ve always got room for ginger beer.
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?
Mik: I would say my Plasmatics t-shirt, the one with Wendy O'Williams with the mohawk and arm in the air. That is an iconic image and possibly the coolest t shirt there ever was.
Tye: My girlfriend Katie got me a cool oversized Misfits - Famous Monsters shirt that I absolutely love, I’d be remiss to not go for that!
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?
Mik: Well family aside, I would say anyone who is interesting and can hold a conversation. Does this include horror film villains? If so, maybe Pinhead. Could have a great game of throwing something to land on his spikes. Till Linderman would be cool , he could teach me German and that leg punching move.
Tye: Marilyn Manson, we could talk gothic fiction, philosophy, movies, weird stuff and music forever or maybe Wilson from Cast Away, he was a legend that deserves a sequel.
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?
Mik: Hmmmm not sure, The Stone Temple Pilots Live in Las Vegas that is on YouTube. In their prime Stone Temple Pilots were a force to be reckoned with. Not really a big live album person. It put me off them when I found out a lot of them are overdubbed in the studio.
Tye: The Poison Live at Brixton by Bullet For My Valentine, the original 2006 one. That’s the most inspirational and important album for me and I’ll never get bored of watching the DVD, I’d just need an audio version in this scenario. Everything about that record and era of that band are so formative for me.
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?
Mik: There are only two of us so it would have to be Tye. It would say “Help me, I'm in hell!” in blood. That's a little nod to you horror fans reading this.
Tye: That’s a great uncle Frank reference from Mik! If I’m allowed to message anyone though…Bruce Dickinson, he’s smart and has planes. No brainer.
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?
Mik: As there are two of us I should say Tye. But he is a nice person with a lot of life left in him. I would eat myself. That's what I would do. There would become a point when you would have to just lay there and think..oww no this is turning into a cannibal movie.
Tye: I’d really rather not kill or eat anybody. But if I was with my band INHERITOR, little Tom our guitarist is probably first to go. I’ve read too much Darwin to spare the poor boy.
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?
Mik: Paul Stanley from Kiss in the non makeup era. He was the master of stage moves and banter. I can't choose just one so I'll throw in Glenn Danzig and Al Jourgensen for back up. And Bret Michaels Bandana.
Tye: I’d try to pull Henry Rollins out, he’s good for conversation, thinking and probably very physically enduring, I think we’d make a good team. I’ve travelled a lot and he’s been just about everywhere on the planet so I’d hope that would come in handy and we’d turn our Lord of the Flies experience into a holiday.
