10. SavagesSilence Yourself
I wanted to include something current and with Savages you can hear all these influences of Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Wire, etc; this distillation of all my favourite bands from my adolescence. I like being able to hear all of those influences, but although it sounds like their influences it doesn’t sound at all derivative. It still sounds new and fresh and fierce. It’s four ladies playing this really tough music. I bought the record and I thought it was pretty good, it sounded like it was made for me. And then I went to see them live and I was blown away. It was so tough. It’s hard to pinpoint what made it so tough. It’s these four women on stage, taking up every corner of the stage, all dressed in black and giving no eye contact to the crowd. They had such presence, you could feel their energy. It was really moving. My boyfriend turned to me during the show and said: "I’m really enjoying this because it’s really good but also because I know 15-year-old you is totally freaking out right now." And I said: "She is! She is! I think I might cry!"
In fact the last time I saw them I actually did cry. They did a cover of Suicide’s ‘Dream Baby Dream’ and it was just all too much for me.
So after seeing that first show I went back and re-listened to the record and it took on a whole new sound to me. I can now hear all of that energy coming out of the record.
