Artist: The Rainbow Family
Label:
Console Records (Glasgow)
Label Mates: Palomino,
The Emjays, Julia Thirteen.Here's the deal. Here's the BiG DeaL. That
shitty four-piece you've been in with your mates since Year 8 eventually managed
to get some daft industry type to hand over a blank cheque and to tell you were
going to be famous. Very famous. You wouldn't have to talk to your former classmates
at school. You wouldn't have to get up early. They only thing they didn't tell
you was that music was more than just writing songs and shaking your balls on
stage. It was about being there on time. Releasing something on time. It was about
being famous on time. Not that being famous is what it's all about,
of course. Not for everybody. Take, The Rainbow Family. They don't care
about being famous and they don't like music that's 'smelly'. Hardly surprsing
when you consider the sweet, sugary fragrance of summer wafting gently from their
sparkling, candy-flavoured 'Rainbow' EP. Comprised of Barry Christie and Marco
Rea, the Rainbow Family combine the unorthoxy of Edinburgh and the gizmos of Glasgow
to perfect a heady blend of sixties psychedelia and tinlking electronica that's
as dreamy as it is delicious With over a hundred tracks released under
different guises including Milton Jackson, Napoleon Solo and The Pretty Boys (a
collaboration with Scot producer du jour Mylo) maybe this time they've struck
oil. The Rainbow EP is the duo's first release. Here's what the press-sheet reads: '
Rainbow Family tread a deliciously fine line between innocence and experience,
naivety and knowledge.'
1. How did you
get signed?
We were signed to the label as two separate entities, and
then the label decided it would be cool if we worked together as a duo.
2. How did you celebrate?
I think we had a cup of tea and made a track.
Rock n’ Roll!
3. Did you have any other labels biting at your heels?
We like the indie label vibe so stuck with that.
4. What
would you NOT be prepared to do to promote yourselves?
Go on Big Brother
or any other reality show.
5. How famous would you say you are right
now?
Not at all.
6. Live circuit or showcase? Did you do
it the hard or easy way?
We pretty much started out in the studio. Now
we have got our live show setup. So we did it in reverse order.
7.
How did you blow your advance?
Just everyday stuff like shopping and
buying lots of Tetley tea bags and paying bills. Nothing glam!
8.
Who was the last band they said they wanted you to sound like?
The label?
They are pretty cool, they just want us to sound like us. No point in being contrived
about it. That sort of approach makes music smelly.
9. How much did
getting signed rely on being tied to a scene?
Not at all for us, we are
quite unique in a weird way.
10. Daftest story they’ve ever invented
about you for the press?
We are 100% truthful at all times. Apart from
the astronaut story.
11. Does your label or your management support
or discourage unruly rock n’ roll behaviour?
Well, to be honest we are
here to do a job. Record great music and play it live. So we don’t really mess
about with all that stuff. Once you go down that route, it becomes about partying
and not music. I think it’s only Pete Doherty that does that and bands from the
60s.
12. Where’s the strangest place you’ve been asked to do publicity?
Sitting on top of an igloo in Norway somewhere.
13. Ever
burned a copy of an album put out by your label for a friend?
My mum
and dad.
14. What was the last major decision your label or your management
made that you didn’t like?
Those ‘50 Cent’ remixes they made us do were
quite depressing. Apart from that, just the usual ‘casting couch’ stuff.
15. Here’s the deal: you’ve made an excellent record and some unscrupulous
hack handling the press release is about to screw it all up with some grotesque
misuse of our mother-tongue. What words would YOU use to describe the release?
This record was envisaged by aliens in a bid to convince Burt Bacharach
to leave planet Earth and write songs for an extra terrestrial planet such is
the beauty and genius of his songwriting.
16. How many years do you
give yourself in the industry?
Not sure, but hopefully it would be a
multiple of pi.
17. How dirty a word is the ‘industry’ to you?
I think it’s funny. It reminds me of the Soviet Union. ‘The People’s Tractor Union
Industry of Moldova’ made 1400 tractors this year. Beating expectations by 300
tractors. Our agriculture will be great this year.
18. If it were
all to collapse tomorrow would you go back to your old job?
I would indeed
and it wouldn’t bother me either. Life is too short to worry about work.
'The
Rainbow EP' - Released 15/05/06 by Console Sounds.
May 11th supporting The Little Flames @ The Barfly
May 12th supporting
The Spinto Band @ The Barfly relevant sites:
www.rainbowfamilymusic.com
www.consolesounds.co.uk
Nosey Bastard for Crud Magazine 2006©
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