Knight Rider Interview

LA's Knight Rider recently graced the Crasier Frane show with an e-mail interview. Tune in on Sunday (5th October) at noon to hear them, plus loads of other awesome band from California, at www.subcity.org. Also, be sure to check out Knight Rider's Debunk Punk set here.

Did you have a good summer?

Mike: Mines was boring.

Kevin: It was heartbreaking.

Are things busy?

Mike: Not really.

Kevin: Always busy.

How did you come up with the Knight Rider sound? Was it a conscious effort or was it more just how things happened when you two got together?

Mike: Both.

How did the vocal style come about?

Mike: Chatting online.

Did you ever try out other stuff together? Were you in other bands?

Mike: I'm in Paper Rainbow. It's ultra synth jazz.

Kevin: I was in a synth pop duo, Yabloki.

Do you ever tour? It seems like you play a lot of shows in and around LA, but does it ever take you around the rest of the USA? Or even out of it?

Mike: Not yet.

Kevin: We went up to north California a couple of times but since we both don’t own cars or moneys touring is difficult.

I read Knight Rider shows can get pretty wild. Something about throwing a chair around? Did it take a while to build up courage to take the project live?

Mike: No.

Kevin: It took for a couple of beers.

Were you always crazy on stage?

Mike: No. Yes.

Kevin: We’ve never played on stage.

What're your best/worst gig experiences?

Mike: Worst was at this bar in San Francisco and it was lame.

Kevin: This one time we opened for Dan Deacon and HEALTH, there were a bunch of people inside to watch us and the sound guy had us use a faulty channel for the drum machine so it was a fucking disaster but we sold a lot of cds that night. The Vermont house show was fun even though a knob on my pedal got sheared off.

You make weird videos, like CD-ROM. Is that just something you do when you're bored, or do you plan it out? You make them yourselves, right?

Mike: Planned. We make them and we had Bryan M help on CD-ROM.

Kevin: We plan to make a video for a particular song but they’re kind of situational.

It seems like the material you put out is all pretty DIY. I know one of your 3" CDs was out on a label called Narf Records, but do you make the other stuff yourself and just sell it at shows?

Mike: Ya. Sometimes we sell them at shows.

Is Barf records your self-released stuff?

Mike: Barf is Erin Allen from Child Pornography. He does Barf.

Do you think you'd like to be involved in a bigger scale release?

Mike: Yes.

Kevin: Yes.

Are there any big plans for Knight Rider's future?

Kevin: We have a new disc coming soon. It's gonna be a cockbuster.

Mike: I give sexy time now.

Are there any labels/bands/websites you'd like to rep?

Mike:
Barf www.barfrecords.tk
Narf http://www.narfrecords.com/
Child Pornography www.myspace.com/yhpargonropdlihc
Sean Carnage www.seancarnage.com
Bryan Magdaleno

Kevin:

www.sundaykat.tk
Vim Crony www.myspace. com/vimcrony

Any words of wisdom or advice you'd like to end on?

Mike: No.

Kevin: Don’t major in art.


Thanks to Mike and Kevin for the awesome interview.