Menomena’s recent album, Friend and Foe, was a masterpiece of obscure indie-pop. The Line of Best Fit’s Rich Hughes went all gooey over it infact. Not a pleasent sight, but still, if there was an album to incite those feelings, this was it. We managed to catch up with the fun-filled scallies recently to put our 20 Questions to them in which they divulged an obsession with crystal meth…

1. Describe your sound in 3 words.
Owe Fur Aided
2. What would be your ideal holiday?
Easter
3. Whats the best cure for a hangover?
Crystal Meth
4. What’s on your rider?
Crystal Meth
5. How do you get ready for a live show?
Crystal Meth
6. Favourite song to play live?
4′33″ by John Cage
7. When was the last time you told a lie?
The previous six questions.
8. Who would win in a fight, a stoat or a goat and why?
The goat. Because I have no idea what a “stoat” is. Goats can eat tin cans though, and that’s badass.
9. What was the last album you bought?
The Horatio “Clementine” McCallister Group, “Fugue in Blue, Summertime in D-minor”
10. If you could rid the world of one song - what would it be?
Anything by the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, or Velvet Underground
11. Who would play you in a film based upon your life?
G.G. Allin
12. Dead or alive. What 5 acts would you have play with you at a festival.
G.G. Allin, Marilyn Manson, Iggy Pop, Jesus Lizard, John Denver
13. Desert Island Disc(s)?
The Horatio - Clementine
McCallister Trio, - Fugue in Blue, Summertime in D-minor
14. What’s your most memorable on the road story?
I’m currently repressing all of them through hypnosis.
15. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be the highlights?
A dark trench coat exposing a brief, vaguely familiar blur of pink.
16. Do you read your own reviews?
Of course.
17. Are you a morning bird or a night fox?
I’m a mid-day platypus.
18. If you could travel back in time where would you set the dial?
To “puree”.
19. What three things could you not live without?
Oxygen
Water
Crystal Meth
20. Tell us a fact about yourself we probably don’t already know.
I’m usually heterosexual.

Links
Menomena [official site] [myspace]
Barsuk Records [official site]