20 Questions with…Asva

This week sees the release of What You Don’t Know Is Frontier – the new album by California’s finest purveryors of what I like to call Sludgecore (I like inventing genres – sue me). We decided it was time to catch up with Asva for some serious 20 Questions action. Their responses were, as you would imagine – short and to the point with a fair amount of blue language. Look away now kids.

Ooh and don’t forget! Our Southern Records sampler is still available to download which features an exclusive track from the new Asva album. Get it here y’all.

1. Describe your sound in 3 words.
Glass. Ocean. Tranquility.

2. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?
7″ by Bachman, Turner, Overdrive. Can’t remember the track. DJ’s Sound City

3. What’s the best cure for a hangover?
Fucking.

4. What’s on your rider?
555 cigarettes and very good scotch.

5. How do you get ready for a live show?
Smoke a fag and sit on my ass bullshitting with people.

6. What’s your favourite song to play live?
Pay To Come- Bad Brains. Or maybe Jet by Wings. But I won’t be doing those this time around.

7. What’s your guilty pleasure?
I don’t feel guilty about any pleasure.

8. Who would win in a fight, a stoat or a goat and why?
Is this some half ass shot at poetry?

9. Who’s your favourite new band at the moment? Tell us a bit about them.
I don’t know any new bands… new to me? I’m enjoying Hidden Cameras quite a bit.

10. Who would play you in a film based upon your life?
River Pheonix in whatever state he currently is.

11. Dead or alive, what 5 acts would you have play with you at a festival?
Sonic Youth. Early Bad Brains pre HR’s whatever. Jimmy Hendrix. The Fall. Radiohead.

12. If push comes to shove, what is your all-time favourite album?
Talk Talk- Laughing Stock

13. What’s your most memorable on the road story?
You’d have to ask the scotch.

14. If your life flashed before your eyes, what would be the highlights?
Getting married, time with my brothers, Montana.

15. What’s the best piece of advice someone has ever given you and did you take notice?
You know how to keep a hard-on? Don’t fuck with it. Similar to ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.’ And yes I took notice.

16. If you had to leave a body part to science, what would it be?
The tiniest scrotum ever.

17. What’s the best book you’ve read and film you’ve seen in the last 6 months?
No Country For Old Men (the movie) and Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

18. What three things could you not live without?
Wife. Wine. Music… in that order

19. Tell us a fact about yourself we probably don’t already know.
I like porn.

20. And finally, we’d like you to make us a mix-tape. Pick five tracks with a theme of your choice.
The theme is good songs…
Cortez The Killer- Neil Young
Couldn’t You Wait- Silkworm
Achilles Last Stand- Led Zeppelin
Birthday- The Fall
Boiler Maker- The Jesus Lizard

Links
Asva [myspace] [label]