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A natter with TURBO FRUITS

Name: Turbo Fruits
Age: Just turned 22! startin to feel old...
Location: Nashville, TN. USA
Education: I graduated from High School.. Nashville School of the Arts

Describe your sound in one sentance? Big melodies over big riffs while riding motorcycles.
Who are your musical heros? I love way certain records make me feel inside... some of my favorites are Lou Reed 'Transformer'. CCR 'cosmos factory'. I've been listening to a good bit of Sam Cooke lately... makes me feel real good.

How do you want poeple to feel when they listen to your music? I want people to have happy thoughts... one of the great things about music is that it helps distract people from the more boring side of their lives.... It's there to bring emotion out of people and I usually aim for the happy ones. I hope people enjoy the stories that the songs stand for.

Whats the story behind your progression from Be Your Own pet to Turbo Fruits? Turbo Fruits is something I always worked on when I had spare time... at first i started just using riffs and ideas that got rejected by byop mates... now i feel that i am giving Turbo Fruits the attention it deserves and i look fwd to making future records.
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Miss Nashville much? Yeah I love nashville... I'm here right now... we have two days off from tour.. it's always good to be home... but sometimes i wish i could just stay on tour because having days off kinda fucks with my routine.



You started rolling in the dollar yet? We payed ourselves yesterday from a month of touring with no hotels rooms... sleeping on floors and trying to save a buck where and whenever we can... we each pocketed One thousand bucks for a month of nonstop hard work and partying.

Most extravagant purchase since you got good? well.... I purchased an I phone. it's great for touring and killing time!

How do you feel when you are making your music? It's hard to tell how i feel about what i am writing when i am writing it. I make my final decisions about how i feel when i hear a rough demo of a new idea.... so i guess i would say i feel "unsure" when im making music
What is the most important thing to you about your music? Making sure that I like it. Having a fun live show. Making sure fans and friends know that i appreciate their support

What are the process you go through when writing and producing your new material? I've been writing riffs and melodies and taking them to my friend/producer's house.. (Jeremy Ferguson of Battle Tapes Recodings) We lay down one instrument at a time until we have a rough version... then let the song breathe and live for a bit... then make changes until its where i want it.

Tell me about the first gig you ever played live? I played at a Local pizza place in NAshville called Guido's Pizza. it was where all my first several shows were.. I miss that place... they closed for god knows what reason.

And your best ever live performance experience? Hmmm there have been so many really fun ones that i can't choose BUT the craziest thing that ever happened was at Don Pedros in Brooklyn, NY. (spring of '09) a dude grabbed an acoustic guitar off the wall and started smashing it on everyone's heads! blood everywhere!
Why are you worth listening to? I think that's a better question for any fans we have... I can't give you a real good answer for that one!

Where do you want to see yourself in five years time. On a sailboat to the bahamas baby!
Your fav:
Place: Nashville, TN. and Northern California
Person: ehh... My dog Paco. he's enough like a person
Film: the Big Lebowski
Song: Bad Moon Risin by CCR
Feelin: Good Feelin!
Food: Japanese Food is my favorite.. i think i will have some tonight... wish it wasn't so damn expensive to get stuffed
Pasttime: I like playing poker to pass the time... but my favorite past time must be the late 60s early 70s

Tell me an entertaining story aboot the lot of yous? We were drunk in Montreal Canada and we had no place to stay.... so we hit the road at 2am... Matt had to piss but we wouldn't pull over for him... he then tried to piss in a water bottle... everyone started cracking up in the midst of this.. which lead to MAtt pissing all over himself... it was hilarious...only in Canada...

Tell me something no one else knows about Turbo Fruits? We don't keep very good track of our tour money box while on the road. so if you're at one of our shows maybe you can make some extra spending money by stealing ours!


How did you come up with then name? Some random gambling machine in Scotland! Fruit Themed.... I won some Pounds when it landed on 'Turbo Fruit'

What is the influence behind the music? Feel Good 60's 70's based music... a bit of soul... a bit of drugs..... a bit of good times

Tell me a joke. Why'd the Mushroom walk into the bar? he's a fungai... Why'd he leave?? there wasn't Mushroom

Where are you going to go now? Asheville, NC. USA to meet up with Black Lips for a couple of shows!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

last day in ldn b4 l eloped to the shire for crimbo

My Russia i-D piece contd........

Earlier this year, i-D travelled to Russia courtesy of Russian Standard Vodka to explore Moscow and St Petersburg and the artists and designers making each city tick.



Text: Milly McMahon

Photography: Dan Burn Forti

Russia is the biggest country in the world. Sprawled over a whopping 7.1 million square kilometers, this diverse nation covers much of Eastern and North Eastern Europe and the whole of Northern Asia. Despite it’s massive bearing on the map, if you were to ask people outside of Russia just what cultural trends go on in this vast continent, you’d probably be met with a vacant expression and some vague reference to vodka. Right? Wrong! Hidden away in discreet corners of Moscow and St Petersburg, Russia’s artistically industrious next generation are veering away from the hustle and bustle of commercial Russia in pursuit of their art. To accidentally take a wrong turn down a one-way street or fall down some stairs into an empty basement may lead to the discovery of something quite spectacular. Housing over 220 museums, 2,000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, 100 concert venues, 45 galleries, 60 cinemas and 80 independent cultural hotspots, Moscow and St. Petersburg are notorious for the enormous artistic wealth they house. As a result, Russia’s young sub-cultural movement has evolved into a tribe of talented creatives, fast becoming recognised for their artistic skill and potential. Much of the work they create is heavily influenced by the country’s much celebrated traditional art and architecture. Strikingly similar to London subcultures, those involved have formed an independent scene, working in warehouses and studios located in the suburbs of larger towns, remaining on the periphery of everything mainstream. I travelled around Russia, courtesy of Russian Standard Vodka, Russia’s number one premium vodka, visiting communes, chatting with both unrecognised and established designers and artists and looking for a correlation between my own experience of European alternative artistic scenes and the Russian equivalent. Like all cultures, there are a number of distinct trends that you need to follow to be in with the in-crowd. For example, the majority of young Russian lads have shaved heads, wear camouflage prints, tailored sportswear and steel toe-capped boots. They’re a tribe, reminiscent of the early Raf Simons/Bernhard Willhelm styles of the 80s skinhead era. This 'look' has infiltrated onto Russia’s runways, spear-headed by talented menswear designers such as Gosha Rubchinsky, Konstantin Gayday and Igor Shmelev. The girls remain largely unconcerned with expressing themselves through fashion and art, gravitating towards status labels and pricey brands. As a result, a real separation is felt between the female and male cultures. But rules were made to be broken. And maverick womenswear designers such as Vardoui Nazarian and Nina Donis, alongside Russian Vogue Executive Editor Anna Dyulgerova, are championing chic, understated clothing as a reaction against the short skirt, low-cut-top phenomenon that has all the Russian boys in a tizzy. These brave new sophisticates are encouraging those who don't identify with the feminine aesthetics the majority of Russian women swear by, to break away, be original and go their own way.



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My Russia pics

Pictures l took on my recent visit to Russia for i-D, I travelled from St Petersburg to Moscow, exploring the current young street art and culture scene. See article in current i-D: The Flesh and Blood issue
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December PIX piece

Honest, loose, ethereal, obnoxious and perfect.

Girls make the kind of music that make you wanna drop trou, fling your kecks and scream like, well, a girl! Only these Girls aren’t actually Girls they’re boys called Girls, Geddit? Like girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys, oh yeah n they make some miighty fiiine music. Throwing down one of their first tour dates on our fine British soils this October Christopher Owens, Chet JR White, John Anderson AND Garett Goddard with Hayes Shannesey, Cory Lee, Brett Eastman, Myles Benham Cooper, Tom Marzella, Gregory Lee Boys, Will Ivy, Dinah, Yann Brohammer, Mosess Issiaih (phew) aka Girs, (supported by the particularly tasty Swanton Bombs) proved so popular their gig sold out before the doors were even manned. Hot Cakes.

Born and bred in the golden sunny-shine Golden gates of San Fran, these lads have come to enjoy the perks of everything you'd expect of the most disjointed and disillusioned celeb-ridden continent. They live fast and burn cash as aggressively as their more commercial musical counterparts BUT despite not actually having to, they choose to live for the squalor and terror that inspires their sound. That sound is honest and real, distinctly lacking in pretense, rich in signature acoustic guitar reverb come harmonies, drenched in delicately chord-blended backing vocals and finished with the emotive mark of artists who have lived (and l mean lived) enabling them to write (and l mean actually write) all their own stuff.



But it wasn’t all sequins, parties and green, no siree! The Girls path to success was one littered with love and strife. Their story all began with retired front man of Curls, Christopher Owens. As the brains behind the band operation the former mentioned musical project, Curls died a death when his Mrs gave poor old Master Owens the boot. Suddenly all empty and alone the ‘then’ painter and decorator Christopher was forced to spend time with just him, himself and he, writing strumming and crooning his way through the breakup. That is, until, came the rebound. Jam packed full of monster-raving-loonie-parties, insatiable antics and furious jam sessions, Girls were born. The lads then went on to secure a mass following, counting super-hotties Rose Mcgowan and the late River Phoenix amongst Girls collaborators and fans. And so lil Chris was able to move on n buoy aint done bad since his humble beginnings spent raised under cult lock and key as a ‘Child of God’. Believe! Master Owen had this own musical epiphany (with a little help from his friends) snuck off n band ganged out the debut Girls album aptly named 'Album’-playing sold out gigs all over the globe and receiving critical acclaim from international music journo topdogs. Girls challenge all the other young, self produced music out there to be this good and they seriously raise the bar. It seems tis simply not enough to write, produce and perform good music anymore, you have to be great and Girls are, they really, truly are….

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