Published:
March 3, 2015
Vocalist Alan Vega and synthesizers / drum machines maverick Martin Rev will play a gig as Suicide this Friday, March 7th, at the Webster Hall from New York, after Martin Rev recently played in the same venue, opening for Zola Jesus.
“We never really rehearse, because at our age it doesn’t really matter,” says Vega for The Guardian. “What we know, we know already. My ears are getting better, harmonically, with time, and my drawings are getting better with time; I don’t understand why.”
Rev also mentions that at this point, they ''can’t predict the content, but who would want to?”. It looks like the current approach of the show is inspired by their first album, using that source as base to build and develop Vega's Joyce-eanesque stream-of-consciousness lyrics or riffing on existing songs.
The synthesizer/vocal musical duo Suicide has been playing a vital part in the development of NY ''punk music''. They took their name from the title of a Ghost Rider comic book titled Satan Suicide, a favorite of Alan Vega.
In a recent interview taken during the CTM Festival in Berlin, Craig Leon recalls a story about an early Suicide gig. ''I thought it was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. It was Suicide. And it had Alan Vega and Martin Rev. Alan was hitting the audience with chains, in the tables, in club, and Martin was like a big statue…pulsating…with everything about rock and roll, and modernist music and La Monte Young, everything all at once. And everybody hated it. The ten people in the audience, they hated it. It was pretty much one of their earliest shows.'' Read the entire interview HERE.