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Lederhosen Lucil joins the Subumlauts for a counterfeit kraut überload
Mirrör: Okay, so both your mythologies are based in this fantasy Germany in some unspecified time period? Krista Muir:
Lucil was actually born in a lab in 1998 as I am today, this height
and weight. She could just as easily have been Baklava Bernice but some
German cells got in there, hence the braids and the accent. Other than
that, she’s pretty much an otherworldly girl. Gunther: For
me it’s also something that’s separated from this world, kind
of like Lord of the Rings and the Middle Earth, but with free beer. M: I notice
you’ve both avoided the whole Nazi thing in favour of more quaint,
innocent stereotypes. KM: Oh,
those Nazis, they get enough press! G: The Germanic
elements in the Subumlauts aren’t really German as this world knows
it. WWII didn’t happen on Umvelt. But people have tried to peg
it on us anyway and it’s really weird. “Well, you’re
Germans, German means this, right?” They just can’t get away
from that association so we’re doing our part to break the stereotype. M: Promoting
the importance of beer over world domination. KM: Laughter
over pain. G: Precisely.
Bier und bubble
boys M: So Gunther,
you mentioned free beer. G: I applied
for a sponsorship but I didn’t get an answer. I’m working
towards free beer for everyone. M: What’s
your favourite brew? G: [very
matter-of-factly] Boréale. Rousse. KM: Lucil’s
more of a Mexican beer and British cider girl. She’s got expensive
tastes, so I can’t let her out very often. G: I don’t
actually drink beer, I pour it all over my body and let it enter my
pores. I was pickled in a keg of wine for two years and it’s the
only way to preserve my body, otherwise I’ll decay. I have a doctor’s
note. KM: Smells
like you’ve been taking your medicine. Do they have beer ice cream
and beer roll-ups on your planet? G: We do
now. I’m writing this thing as we speak, I’ll work it in. M: Okay,
describe your music for me. G: Well,
there’s some pretty heavy poetry happening. I write songs about
beer, love, love of beer, sausages, beer again, and Umvelt. And then
there’s a guitar, and drums and bass too, and I guess some would
say it’s punky. KM: Lucil
makes a Yamaha-driven, cross-spectrum of genres recounting stories of
bad jobs, sucrose addiction, allergy problems and bizarre products at
the drug store. And boys, sometimes. G: You should
write a song about David Hasselhoff. He’s a boy. KM: I have
a song about bubble boys. G: Oh, there you go, it’s already covered.
Kanadisch oder
deutsch? M: How do
real Germans react to this schtik? KM: They
usually love it. Once, this couple in their mid-70s came to a show in
Kingston ’cause they thought I played traditional polka music.
They sat politely through the whole thing and at the end I said, “Any
requests?” and they’re like, “Ja, can you play Askäzeinewulfenkein?”
I was like, “[gasp] The real deal!” and I went up to them
after and they really liked it, I was surprised. G: Yeah,
German punks like our shows. One guy brought our CD to Germany and played
it in a bar, and he was like, “Well, they didn’t make me turn
it off.” So that was a good compliment. But once I gave a CD to
my German relatives from Alberta and they read the back and said, “My
God, you are destroying the German language, what you are doing to us?” M: Any closing
words of old kraut wisdom? KM: Lucil
has a motto: “Always make time to hose.” Hosing is a combination
of rocking out and goofing off. G: A very important saying in the Subumlauts world is: “Love changes like the weather, but beer ist forever.” : At Petit
Campus on Saturday, Feb. 23, 9pm, $6
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Legend
has it that Lederhosen Lucil carted her keyboard to Kanada to share
the love and goodwill of her native Beerstein City. Meanwhile, the Subumlauts
fought in an epic civil war on Umvelt before landing on Earth to become
the local band they are today. Das Mirrör conferenced with Lucil’s
representative Krista Muir and Subumlauts leader Gunther (partly in
his strange “Albert Seliger” guise) to discuss the awesome
joining of forces that is about to take place.