Horse The Band

Call them what you want but Horse The Band is used to being the black sheep of the music community.

With a bad reputation to live up to and a self booked world tour on the horizon vocalist Nathan “The General” answered the following questions for us...

Interview w/ Nathan (Vocals) Horse

The Band (USA)

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By Cameron Chambers

For the uninitiated, can you

please state your name and what you do in Horse The Band?

I call myself General Baron and I do vocal things for Horse.

Why would you call yourselves Horse The Band when Sonic Death Monkey

is clearly the superior name?

Because in the US, Sonic Death

Monkey means wet urinal.

If you had to compare your

band to a food group, what would it be and why?

I would compare it to Mexican

food because we are all Mexican at heart.

A lot of band's have often

stated that they can't tour Australia without massive financial backing

and a booking agent yet you guys are in the midst of independently booking

a world tour. What prompted such a massive undertaking?

We wanted to and nobody would

help us. People are such pussies.

Have your experiences with

booking agents and package tours been that bad that you thought it'd

be better if you just struck out on your own?

No. As far as I know we still

like your booking agent, even though he probably hates us. He’s not

getting a penny from this.

Our first couple of tours were

self booked… we just decided we had to put our foot in a door we blew

open ourselves with intellectual dynamite.

How did you end up on the Taken

reunion shows that are happening in Japan in March of this year?

Ray is Horse The Band’s

biggest fan. It’s weird, he sees us as some kind of artistic gods

or something. He once offered to give me his wife as a token of his

esteem. I declined because I think he’s a great guy and they are obviously

in love, so why ruin a good thing right?

You guys have some "questionable"

notches on the proverbial belt – like pissing in a fan's mouth on

stage – do ever sit down after a show and think you went too far?

I’ve only gone too far once

and that was a couple of weeks ago. I wasn’t even at a show. I don’t

know what’s wrong with me.

Have your off stage antics ever caused you any problems as far as

promoters not willing to have you on shows or tours?

Yeah, the fucking hate us… just

to generalize.

Horse The Band stick out like

dogs ball compared to the rest of the acts on Koch Records. What did

Koch offer you guys that other labels weren't?

A deal!

Obviously Horse The Band shares a lot of musical similarities to

other Koch acts, such as Mobb Deep and Terror Squad. When are we going

to see you on a hip hop tour?

Probably as soon as our booking

agent Josh Kline sees a funny opening and submits us and asks

for ten thousand a night, then tells us how funny it was when the people

get mad.

Who are some bands that you

actually enjoy playing and touring with?

Heavy Fucking Heavy Fucking Low

Fucking Low.

So Many Dynamos (perfect gentleman).

There Are Our Spiritual Counterparts.

The Fall Of Troy (nice boys).

Between The Buried And Me (even

nicer boys).

The Number Twelve Looks Like You

(we’re borrowing their drummer for this tour).

The Nintendo-core tag is one

that's followed you around for the better part of your career. Does

it bother you that the band's music might get judged on everything else

you guys get up to?

Yeah, oh well. Fuck it!

If someone who's never heard

your band asked to hear one song, what would you play them and why?

Murder or I think we are suffering……

etc

Between the two I think a lot

of our dynamics are explored.

You'll be playing a series of shows in Australian in the first 2

weeks of March. What can we expect from a Horse The Band live show?

Intense music, raw energy and

lots of inappropriate humour.

Will you have copies of your infamous DVD available on this tour?