Interview with Pigface

Pigface marauder Jared of CHEMLAB.

MH: What's your latest project?

Jared: I have this project which is me just orientating a bunch of stories from the dirty underbelly of the city and giving the tapes to musicians. Then the musicians both known and unknown in the music industry can put music behind it. And take those tapes and farm them out to visual artist that can them interpret visually what their hearing. So it will be a CD, a CD-Rom and a book.

MH: Wow, what's the working title?

Jared: It's called "Lacuna" because a lacuna is a missing section of text. Set the reviewers up "and yea this is the part that should've stayed missing".

MH: Are you fronting Pigface for the whole tour?

Jared: Oh yea, Martin got me out of mothballs. I was hangin up workin on Wall Street.

MH: Really?

Jared: Make some money. Get my teeth fixed. Put money away for things like, you know... insurance

MH: A bungalow somewhere?

Jared: A house in the south of France... a little room to stretch out (big stretch and sigh)

and ya know Wall Street's not a total rip-off. You can build a good base of clients, and make them money and have a real loyal clientele. You don't need to be ripping people off in order to make money on Wall Street. And that's refreshing.

MH: Are there going to be anymore Chem Lab releases?

Jared: There's nothing guaranteed there may very well be another one. And i don't know if that will be the final one or not. It depends... depends on half a dozen different factors. Money being one of them. Although i'm making it right now, i don't know i'm so torn. I want somebody else to pay for it. By the same token of course, when somebody else pays for it, there's all those little strings again.

MH: Artistic control.

Jared: Yea and control is a real issue cause you get so little of it. That's why it's so nice working with Martin.

MH: He pretty much gives you free reign?

Jared: Yea and he's also good at maintaining a lot of control for the artist.

MH: That's rare for a lot of labels.

Jared: Oh yeah. Maybe we'll put out Chem Lab record through Invisible. We'll see.. only time will tell.

MH: Is there any other projects that you are working on?

Jared: Ummm No. There's a number of tremendously interesting musicians on this tour. I want to work with the guys in Phylr. I want to work with Gus and Martin of Test Dept. Meg and Jenny both want me to sing on this track they're working on. With my fabulous two note range.

MH: This tour just seems like a real melting pot of creativity.

Jared: Oh yea, OOhhh yea. And when it works it works really well. When it doesn't it's just a big crowbar pain in the neck.

MH: But if you didn't have those crowbar pains, you wouldn't appreciate the good times.

Jared: That's right. The good times. That's right!

William Blake said "you can never truly appreciate beauty without first decending to the utter depths of horror".

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