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niña coyote
How do you overcome Chico Tornado’s wall of sound? Do you have anywhere to shelter from the Tornado storm?
I don’t need any shelter, I love his wall of sound. But, yep, I suppose it’s true, I really have to beat the shit outta my drums to make myself heard. Both of us are gonna end up pretty deaf... ha ha ha.
Both of you have played with different bands... and now that there are only two of you, is it easier or more difficult to agree and make decisions?
It’s easier to agree on the small everyday stuff. The problem is that when there are major disagreements there isn’t a third member who can swing the vote, but to be fair, we generally agree on most of the important things.
Since you’ve started playing live shows, I’m sure you’ve worn through more than one pair of sneakers each...What’s it like to be on the road with Chico Tornado?
We’re a strong team and really get on well together... most times any problems that come up are from the outside, they’re not our doing. It’s a pleasure to tour with Tornado... the most difficult thing is to get him to go back home.
You’ve toured abroad... Is it especially challenging to play to people who have absolutely no idea who you are?
The truth is that we really look forward to playing to a crowd who have never heard us before, and especially when we see the very semi-stunned fifirst look on their faces when we let it rip with the noise.
How do you seduce a foreign crowd? How do you go about it?
We just do our own thing, doesn’t matter if we are here or in Beijing... the only way we seduce an audience is by truly enjoying each and every gig.
You have been pretty busy lately... Any time to look after the orchard at home?
Well, we get a lot of help from family... with the orchard and with a whole pile of other stuff too. You can do anything you want if you have people you love and are loved by on your side.
chico tornado
The way Niña Coyote plays the drums is pretty spectacular... What does this Coyote eat?
She has the odd craving for Road Runner and other road racers but meat and raw fish drive her wild...she’s very fond of vegetables, too.
What type of music and what groups does Niña Coyote listen to?
She’ll listen to almost anything but she especially likes R&R, Soul, funk, bachata and hard rock. AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Supremes, Martha and the Vandelas, Detroit Cobras, Jr Walker, Kiss, Kyuss, Rage Against the Machine, Anestesia, Dut, Lobo Electrico, NCC, Ike and Tina Turner...
You’ve both long been involved with other musical projects. How did Coyote and Tornado get together?
When Niña Coyote was asked to play the drums in the group Zuloak, we started heading down to the rehearsal rooms together. We would improvise and just pass the time playing. One afternoon we decided to video and record a session. When we were editing and mixing it, we saw that we had something really potent on our hands, so that’s where the idea to do a record came from.
So with an eye on the future, apart from dragging your venomous desert songs around from place to place, are you working on any new stuff? How do both of you go about writing the material?
We have loads of new ideas and we’ll shortly begin to get some new tunes ready for the next record. Some of the songs I write by myself, others come from improvisations that we record where we take out the bits we like, work on them
and build them eventually into a song...
What would you not bring to a desert island?
A mobile phone.
How do you overcome Chico Tornado’s wall of sound? Do you have anywhere to shelter from the Tornado storm?
I don’t need any shelter, I love his wall of sound. But, yep, I suppose it’s true, I really have to beat the shit outta my drums to make myself heard. Both of us are gonna end up pretty deaf... ha ha ha.
Both of you have played with different bands... and now that there are only two of you, is it easier or more difficult to agree and make decisions?
It’s easier to agree on the small everyday stuff. The problem is that when there are major disagreements there isn’t a third member who can swing the vote, but to be fair, we generally agree on most of the important things.
Since you’ve started playing live shows, I’m sure you’ve worn through more than one pair of sneakers each...What’s it like to be on the road with Chico Tornado?
We’re a strong team and really get on well together... most times any problems that come up are from the outside, they’re not our doing. It’s a pleasure to tour with Tornado... the most difficult thing is to get him to go back home.
You’ve toured abroad... Is it especially challenging to play to people who have absolutely no idea who you are?
The truth is that we really look forward to playing to a crowd who have never heard us before, and especially when we see the very semi-stunned fifirst look on their faces when we let it rip with the noise.
How do you seduce a foreign crowd? How do you go about it?
We just do our own thing, doesn’t matter if we are here or in Beijing... the only way we seduce an audience is by truly enjoying each and every gig.
You have been pretty busy lately... Any time to look after the orchard at home?
Well, we get a lot of help from family... with the orchard and with a whole pile of other stuff too. You can do anything you want if you have people you love and are loved by on your side.
chico tornado
The way Niña Coyote plays the drums is pretty spectacular... What does this Coyote eat?
She has the odd craving for Road Runner and other road racers but meat and raw fish drive her wild...she’s very fond of vegetables, too.
What type of music and what groups does Niña Coyote listen to?
She’ll listen to almost anything but she especially likes R&R, Soul, funk, bachata and hard rock. AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Supremes, Martha and the Vandelas, Detroit Cobras, Jr Walker, Kiss, Kyuss, Rage Against the Machine, Anestesia, Dut, Lobo Electrico, NCC, Ike and Tina Turner...
You’ve both long been involved with other musical projects. How did Coyote and Tornado get together?
When Niña Coyote was asked to play the drums in the group Zuloak, we started heading down to the rehearsal rooms together. We would improvise and just pass the time playing. One afternoon we decided to video and record a session. When we were editing and mixing it, we saw that we had something really potent on our hands, so that’s where the idea to do a record came from.
So with an eye on the future, apart from dragging your venomous desert songs around from place to place, are you working on any new stuff? How do both of you go about writing the material?
We have loads of new ideas and we’ll shortly begin to get some new tunes ready for the next record. Some of the songs I write by myself, others come from improvisations that we record where we take out the bits we like, work on them
and build them eventually into a song...
What would you not bring to a desert island?
A mobile phone.
