Dead Kids
'It's about putting your arm around your friend and being nice to them and buying them fruit to make them happy.'
London-based noiseniks Dead Kids release their new single 'Fear And Flouride' on 19th November via Salvia/XL Recordings, a single about a whole lot of things, which - including some other stuff - is what we quizzed frontman Mike Title about.
So, what's the new single 'Fear and Flouride' about?
It's about fear, and it's about flouride. It's about stopping to question what you take for granted because you get lazy or you get used to shit. It's about your friends boring you with their problems. It's about putting your arm around your friend and being nice to them and buying them fruit to make them happy. It's about irrational or chemically induced fear that spirals out of control. It's about waking up in a cold sweat and being creeped out by birdsong. Does the Government even put fluoride in our water supply? If they did would it make us sick? Do we have a right to be suspicious? I don't trust anyone and i have no clue... That's the whole point.
Did you name yourselves deliberately to piss people off?
I have no problem with people being pissed off. There's nothing worse than a hypocrite. If you read about dead kids all day in your newspaper 'cos it's like some kind of soap opera to titillate you or if you like reading stories about daddy killing Johnny cos mummy made him angry or maybe a dog eating a baby cos granny was smoking weed whilst she was reading about families eating tapas whilst their kids go missing and someone you really hate is on TV and you just sit there smiling at it like an idiot then yeah, fuck you.
Your live shows are renowned for being somewhat unpredictable - what would you do if the audience just stood there stony-faced and didn't move?
I would shake my very spirit out of myself and envelope them with love or violence depending on how much I liked their faces or their bodies. I can be very giving. It's easy to be horrible. It's much more classy to be nice. Kiss kiss.
You seem to be both a little bit political, and at the same time anti-political. Surely you're fed up of bands preaching politics all the time?
I hate preachy shit, yeah. Like, Rage Against The Machine were preachy, or Asian Dub Foundation. It's boring. People have opinions, and that's good, but if you hide behind a good cause because you have no personality like Chris Martin, then that's really sad and transparent. So I say this: I would eat his baby Apple with the slogan 'Vote for me!'.
According to one blog, you once told tourists you killed Diana. So, how did you do it?
I dressed up as a paparazzi with puffa jacket and barged in to people on Oxford Street and basically shouted and elbowed a lot.
What's the ultimate Santa costume?
Suspenders and a bra under all that get up. Santa is sexy. I'm getting the horn just thinking of him creeping in to my room at night. I heard he comes down chimneys. OK, I'm stopping this corny shit right now.
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