The Tape

Tokyo Police Club Interview

Written by gzabriel on Sunday, 27 of July , 2008 at 1:01 pm

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So due to some bad planning I can’t get the audio file from my phone up onto the blog which normally wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that it contains Tokyo Police Club singing Fergalicious. So that will hopefully come later. For now I present a partially abbreviated interview with Tokyo Police Club. All instances of the band refering to “I” are probably Graham.

Tape: How Many Handclaps Are On Your Album?

TPC: One. It’s you invoulantarily clapping along. Actually it’s Metallica’s clap. Actually we took the entire chrous from “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time At All”. It was an expensive album to produce.

Tape: How’d You Get Your Name?

TPC: Our song Cheer It On.

Tape: Do You Have Any Authority in Tokyo?

TPC: I’m  pretty sure we have diplomatic immunity because I was there last time and I hit a few people drunk driving. In a bulldozer.

Tape: What Albums/Song Have You Been Liking?

TPC: What’s the Sigur Ros song?

Tape: Gobledigook?

TPC: No the second one, I think it’s the title track…(we assume it’s Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur)

Tape: What is Your Favorite Pump Up Music?

TPC: The Hockey Song by Stompin Tom Connors. [Graham to band members] You know that song? [Graham sings] The good old hockey gaaaame. He has a board that he stomps on.

Tape: Is the board an instrument?

TPC: No I think it’s just instrumental. [Manager to Graham] Sounds like our version is Cotton Eye Joe. [Graham] Nahhhh…

Tape: What is the Best/Craziest Thing That’s Happened To You Guys On Tour?

TPC: [Interband Banter] Nah we gotta tell a new story. We recently got 13 [referring to the hackey sack they were playing with the whole time]

Tape: Have you guys been playing before every show?

TPC: Just when we want to.

Tape: What Happened to [Graham's] Bathroom Blog?

TPC: I ran out of things to say about bathrooms. Once you talk about a clean bathroom and a dirty bathroom there’s not much more you can say.

Tape: Good that you got to try out a different profession though.

TPC: Exactly.

Tape: What is Your Favorite Punctuation? (We like the Interrobanger)

TPC: [Internal Banter] Haha no. He said Oxford Comma. The semicolon is good because it if you use it and it makes sense you look really smart.

Tape: I heard there’s debate about the semicolon. Whether it should be discontinued or not.

TPC: Damnit, first Pluto now the semicolon. Kurt Vonnegut hated the semicolon. He called it a bastard hermaphrodite.

Tape: Flying Or Invisibility?

TPC: Uhhh flying. Because then I can spy on the girls washroom from above.

Tape: Nice.

Tape: Do You Guys Have A Guilty Pleasure Song?

TPC: You know that one thing…it goes like…Fergalicious. Oh right. But no one feels guilty about that. I’m loud and proud of my love for Fergalicious. You can do another one if you want I didn’t mean to- nahhh we don’t have any others. Remember we were playing and I tried to rap it and I forgot most of the rap. (Suddenly Graham, and shortly the others, launches into song) I’m the F to the E to the R G I the E/ain’t no other lady get down like me. Fergalicious. Baawnananananananana Baawnanananananana. I be up in the gym just workin on my fitness/he’s my witness Oooh Wee!/They be lining down the block just to watch what I got. Fergalicious.

We talk more about my new shoes and how my old shoes are Graham’s current shoes, whether wearing Keds has a stigma attached, Tristan’s crossword puzzle shoes, and Graham’s experiences using a carrier pidgeon  instead of a cellphone growing up. It kept dropping his calls everytime it saw a worm.

Thanks so much Tokyo’s Policial Clubbers for the interview!

Tokyo Police Club - Centennial (Dntel Remix)

Tokyo Police Club - Nature of The Experiment (RAC Remix)

Category: Concerts, Interviews

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