Chach
I've discovered Chach two months ago on the net... Due to the fact that they are coming IN Los Angeles, I'll probably never see them live, not to mention meeting them, but their first EP "To Destroy Your Boyfriend's Confidence" (what a great title...) was a big surprise for me (you can find the review here on our site) and since I've asked for a copy I'm in contact with Mimi, the girl that's caressing the guitar. They liked my opinion on the EP very much and offered me an interview, so this could be the first one here on Arcana Noctis made with "stars"... because I really see a bright future for them... Enjoy!
Arcana Noctis: Greetings from Austria! First of all: What the hell does Chach mean? I've found some funny explanations in the urban dictionary, for example pussy ...or asshole (in this case, not the hole itself but a person, hehe)... there are too many, I'm not sure... What does it mean to you? I'd really like to know this...
Chach: We always thought it meant the combination of pussies and assholes. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you feel like both nuts, know what I mean? There's a theory that's running rampant through Los Angeles right now that's built on the premise that Chach means, and I might be paraphrasing here, the complete and utter annhilation of any form of castrated Pop culture, replaced with an overcompensated injection of balls into the Pop artery. And pussies and assholes and shit.
Arcana Noctis: Tell me about the beginning of Chach. How long does the band already exist, how long do you play gigs? Something about every member... How old are you? ...and yes, Mimi's age too :P
Chach: Chach began when Jimi was driving drunk down Florence and Normandie in his Ford Influenza back in 1992. He bent over to pick up a copy of his Neil Sedaka anthology, and accidentally drove into Dawn, who was buying black-market Beta cassettes from Chad. All three were just destroyed, (a mystery, as Jimi's Influenza reached a top speed of 6 mph). Low and behold, the paramedic who picked them up was none other than James, who had just been excommunicated from the medical community for a scandal involving a three year old rickets patient's bedpan and Wink Martindale. James, however, was going through an epiphany and liberation of sorts, as he had just announced he was royally gay, and decided to pick these three up on his way to Fatty Arbuckle's grave and give them all mouth to mouth and take them back to his pad for a game of Stratego. At the time, I was in Cleveland trying out for the Browns, and I heard about the story during an Oxygen network news flash, and was absolutely driven to tears. I cried for weeks. I knew I had to give up my dream of slapassing with hordes of 300+ pound sweaty men in the shower, and meet this group of gay, drunk, Beta cassette buying freaks.
Arcana Noctis: What's the ideology of Chach?
Chach: We've always felt that Anton LaVey presented his form of Satanism in a sort of silly, Vegas kind of fashion. Don't get me wrong, we'll take the orgies, cool masks, and all that crap, but we think it's gotta go a few steps further. We've got to take it to a point that just can't be topped. We've got a 4 point plan in the works to pull this off, and we will personally guarantee that Alleister Crowley's gonna get chub in his grave.
Arcana Noctis: What are your influences? List some of your favourite bands, movies, games, books, sex-affectations, drugs...
Chach: We're influenced by being under the influence. We're on a pretty big pharmeceutical kick right now, and that's doin' the trick. Some bands we've been listening to: Sunn O))), Throbbing Gristle, Spacemen 3, Black Mountain, Moistboyz, always Ween, Urge Overkill, The Cows, The Jesus Lizard, old Celtic Frost, The Locust, Melt Banana, Tommy Bolan, some Lou Reed, old Van Halen, Serge Gainsbourg, and the Revenge Of The Nerds soundtrack. We've all been paying for sex for quite some time now, and we've signed an agreement with the L.A. Sherriff's department that says that they'll look the other way when we hit the streets lookin' for love, if we don't discuss the nature of our exploits, so we're gonna have to keep a lid on the sex stuff, unfortunately.
Arcana Noctis: I love your EP, I gave you 10 points out of 10... but I suppose you only have the biggest scores... what were the reactions to your music 'til now?
Chach: When we sell a CD, we'll let you know. It's been out for about a year now, and we're anxiously awaiting that first sale. We've recently been told by our producer to consider asking our parents to buy a copy to help open the retail floodgates. Booger.
Arcana Noctis: What are the concerts like? How many (and what kind of) people do you entertain on average per evening? What songs do you play except the ones from the EP?
Chach: I'll tell you what, the shows are unlike any other. People come from miles away just to see Chach do that special thing. Last show, there was a guy who drove from Santa Monica to West Hollywood to see us rock our shit. Now, how many bands can boast that kind of feat? HOW MANY!!?!!!
Arcana Noctis: I hope you are preparing a full length album... If so, I'd like to know all the details!
Chach: Damn dude, we've got the full length ready to go, as in the materials been written and rehearsed. Can we borrow $75,000 to record the opus? We're artists, baby.
Arcana Noctis: I also love the video for "From The Throne"! Tell me something about it... It looks like you are having a lot of fun in your lives, or is it just an image and you all work in offices?
Chach: Uh oh. We do work, but I'll be damned if the man's gonna tell us what to do. As soon as the five us step out of our respective offices, it's nothing but a plethora of whores, high-quality powder, socialites looking to be sodomized, and trips to the infectious disease specialist. We wouldn't have it any other way. I have DirecTV too.
Arcana Noctis: I listen to a lot of music styles, and (unfortunately) only to a few bands that play this kind of Rock music, but in my opinion you could have the status of Queens Of The Stone Age for example... so what's the problem? Are there too many bands like Chach or are you waiting for the right deal at the right moment?
Chach: That's actually a good question. The goofy answer would be to say that, as the market isn't inundated with pure Rock bands, there's not a real precedent for what it is we do, possibly minus the exceptions of QOTSA, Mars Volta, and maybe a couple others. So with each step we take, it's almost as if we're selling the business on the fact that integrity, good Rock songs, and fun are characteristics that merit a recording budget. I don't think there is a serious answer to this one.
Arcana Noctis: What do you think about that style anyway? For whom do you make this music, except for your personal pleasure?
Chach: I think that the tunes we play and write are more the result of what feels good to us in moments of spontaneity, resulting in a pretty natural and pure result. Don't get me wrong, while we do this, there are images of naked, overdosed, barely 18 fairies floating around in our heads, but we do this because it's what we like, in all honesty.
Arcana Noctis: How did you managed to get Frank Gryner for the mix? Honestly I don't know anything about him, but I've read he worked with A Perfect Circle, Monster Magnet or Coal Chamber, to name a few ...so this must mean something ...or is he just a friend of yours?
Chach: Who in the hell is Frank Gryner?
Arcana Noctis: ...and now for something completely different: What are your first thoughts when you hear of...
...George W. Bush junior:
Monkeys.
...Religion (especially the conflicts between Muslims and Christians):
Pornos with guys with big moustaches.
...Elvis Presley:
Nacho Cheese
...Black/Death Metal (the style, the makeup, the fans):
N.W.A.
...computer made music:
Boy Scouts
...splatter movies:
They don't make them like they used to!!!
...Austria:
Sounds like Australia, but without an L.
...Romania:
The chick on the cover of the Chach CD, she's Romanian.
...Europe in general:
The first place I'd like to tour. And drugs on our rider, hopefully.
...Porn:
The coolest people on the planet.
Arcana Noctis: Thanxxx very much for answering my strange questions, I really hope to hear good news from you soon... And when the time comes... don't forget us "small" people :) Cheerz and all the best!
Chach: Thanks so much for being cool to us – we really appreciate it. Maybe one of these days we'll take you hooker shopping here in Los Angeles. Oh yeah – go to www.myspace.com/chachrocks and www.ChachMe.com. Thanks!!!!
Arcana Noctis: Greetings from Austria! First of all: What the hell does Chach mean? I've found some funny explanations in the urban dictionary, for example pussy ...or asshole (in this case, not the hole itself but a person, hehe)... there are too many, I'm not sure... What does it mean to you? I'd really like to know this...
Chach: We always thought it meant the combination of pussies and assholes. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you feel like both nuts, know what I mean? There's a theory that's running rampant through Los Angeles right now that's built on the premise that Chach means, and I might be paraphrasing here, the complete and utter annhilation of any form of castrated Pop culture, replaced with an overcompensated injection of balls into the Pop artery. And pussies and assholes and shit.Arcana Noctis: Tell me about the beginning of Chach. How long does the band already exist, how long do you play gigs? Something about every member... How old are you? ...and yes, Mimi's age too :P
Chach: Chach began when Jimi was driving drunk down Florence and Normandie in his Ford Influenza back in 1992. He bent over to pick up a copy of his Neil Sedaka anthology, and accidentally drove into Dawn, who was buying black-market Beta cassettes from Chad. All three were just destroyed, (a mystery, as Jimi's Influenza reached a top speed of 6 mph). Low and behold, the paramedic who picked them up was none other than James, who had just been excommunicated from the medical community for a scandal involving a three year old rickets patient's bedpan and Wink Martindale. James, however, was going through an epiphany and liberation of sorts, as he had just announced he was royally gay, and decided to pick these three up on his way to Fatty Arbuckle's grave and give them all mouth to mouth and take them back to his pad for a game of Stratego. At the time, I was in Cleveland trying out for the Browns, and I heard about the story during an Oxygen network news flash, and was absolutely driven to tears. I cried for weeks. I knew I had to give up my dream of slapassing with hordes of 300+ pound sweaty men in the shower, and meet this group of gay, drunk, Beta cassette buying freaks.
Arcana Noctis: What's the ideology of Chach?
Chach: We've always felt that Anton LaVey presented his form of Satanism in a sort of silly, Vegas kind of fashion. Don't get me wrong, we'll take the orgies, cool masks, and all that crap, but we think it's gotta go a few steps further. We've got to take it to a point that just can't be topped. We've got a 4 point plan in the works to pull this off, and we will personally guarantee that Alleister Crowley's gonna get chub in his grave.
Arcana Noctis: What are your influences? List some of your favourite bands, movies, games, books, sex-affectations, drugs...
Chach: We're influenced by being under the influence. We're on a pretty big pharmeceutical kick right now, and that's doin' the trick. Some bands we've been listening to: Sunn O))), Throbbing Gristle, Spacemen 3, Black Mountain, Moistboyz, always Ween, Urge Overkill, The Cows, The Jesus Lizard, old Celtic Frost, The Locust, Melt Banana, Tommy Bolan, some Lou Reed, old Van Halen, Serge Gainsbourg, and the Revenge Of The Nerds soundtrack. We've all been paying for sex for quite some time now, and we've signed an agreement with the L.A. Sherriff's department that says that they'll look the other way when we hit the streets lookin' for love, if we don't discuss the nature of our exploits, so we're gonna have to keep a lid on the sex stuff, unfortunately.
Arcana Noctis: I love your EP, I gave you 10 points out of 10... but I suppose you only have the biggest scores... what were the reactions to your music 'til now?
Chach: When we sell a CD, we'll let you know. It's been out for about a year now, and we're anxiously awaiting that first sale. We've recently been told by our producer to consider asking our parents to buy a copy to help open the retail floodgates. Booger.
Arcana Noctis: What are the concerts like? How many (and what kind of) people do you entertain on average per evening? What songs do you play except the ones from the EP?
Chach: I'll tell you what, the shows are unlike any other. People come from miles away just to see Chach do that special thing. Last show, there was a guy who drove from Santa Monica to West Hollywood to see us rock our shit. Now, how many bands can boast that kind of feat? HOW MANY!!?!!!
Arcana Noctis: I hope you are preparing a full length album... If so, I'd like to know all the details!Chach: Damn dude, we've got the full length ready to go, as in the materials been written and rehearsed. Can we borrow $75,000 to record the opus? We're artists, baby.
Arcana Noctis: I also love the video for "From The Throne"! Tell me something about it... It looks like you are having a lot of fun in your lives, or is it just an image and you all work in offices?
Chach: Uh oh. We do work, but I'll be damned if the man's gonna tell us what to do. As soon as the five us step out of our respective offices, it's nothing but a plethora of whores, high-quality powder, socialites looking to be sodomized, and trips to the infectious disease specialist. We wouldn't have it any other way. I have DirecTV too.
Arcana Noctis: I listen to a lot of music styles, and (unfortunately) only to a few bands that play this kind of Rock music, but in my opinion you could have the status of Queens Of The Stone Age for example... so what's the problem? Are there too many bands like Chach or are you waiting for the right deal at the right moment?
Chach: That's actually a good question. The goofy answer would be to say that, as the market isn't inundated with pure Rock bands, there's not a real precedent for what it is we do, possibly minus the exceptions of QOTSA, Mars Volta, and maybe a couple others. So with each step we take, it's almost as if we're selling the business on the fact that integrity, good Rock songs, and fun are characteristics that merit a recording budget. I don't think there is a serious answer to this one.
Arcana Noctis: What do you think about that style anyway? For whom do you make this music, except for your personal pleasure?
Chach: I think that the tunes we play and write are more the result of what feels good to us in moments of spontaneity, resulting in a pretty natural and pure result. Don't get me wrong, while we do this, there are images of naked, overdosed, barely 18 fairies floating around in our heads, but we do this because it's what we like, in all honesty.
Arcana Noctis: How did you managed to get Frank Gryner for the mix? Honestly I don't know anything about him, but I've read he worked with A Perfect Circle, Monster Magnet or Coal Chamber, to name a few ...so this must mean something ...or is he just a friend of yours?
Chach: Who in the hell is Frank Gryner?
Arcana Noctis: ...and now for something completely different: What are your first thoughts when you hear of...
...George W. Bush junior:
Monkeys.
...Religion (especially the conflicts between Muslims and Christians):
Pornos with guys with big moustaches.
...Elvis Presley:
Nacho Cheese
...Black/Death Metal (the style, the makeup, the fans):
N.W.A.
...computer made music:
Boy Scouts
...splatter movies:
They don't make them like they used to!!!
...Austria:
Sounds like Australia, but without an L.
...Romania:
The chick on the cover of the Chach CD, she's Romanian.
...Europe in general:
The first place I'd like to tour. And drugs on our rider, hopefully.
...Porn:
The coolest people on the planet.
Arcana Noctis: Thanxxx very much for answering my strange questions, I really hope to hear good news from you soon... And when the time comes... don't forget us "small" people :) Cheerz and all the best!
Chach: Thanks so much for being cool to us – we really appreciate it. Maybe one of these days we'll take you hooker shopping here in Los Angeles. Oh yeah – go to www.myspace.com/chachrocks and www.ChachMe.com. Thanks!!!!