The Anti-Social Questionnaire
Your Name: Alex Keevill
Band Association: The Microdance
Q. What toppings make up the best burger?
A. Kimchi
Q. Favourite coping mechanism for touring NOT involving liquor or other intoxicating influences?
A. Seeing as the band has been largely dysfunctional in the 15 years since its inception (there has been a functioning band for maybe three of those years), I haven’t really been on tour. But I should imagine laying on my bed and taking in some classical or romantic music would be a welcome distraction – perhaps Beethoven or Rachmaninoff. Either that or some brain rot, junk TV, Always Sunny in Philadelphia or something horror based.
Q. If you could be any animal in the world, which would you be, and why?
A. An ant, because being telepathic would be pretty cool. I’ve also got this kind of obsession with witnessing gigantic scale things, it’s not just music, I like everything epic, so if my ant eyesight was good, that’d be a wicked bonus!
Q. Most unusual piece of merch you’ve seen/bought/produced?
A. Probably some soundgarden boxer shorts when I was 14.
Q. What lyric has had the most profound influence on your life?
A. Too many to say in absolute terms. But currently ‘I’m down on my luck, but I know which way is up’ from ‘What For’ by The Joy Formidable. Goosebumps every time along with a sense of ‘hopefully one day I’ll feel that way!’
Q. The internet: Best thing to happen to music in the last 25 year, or the worst?
A. By far the worst. There’s no filter system. You’re competing against 10s of thousands of others, the large majority of which are releasing utter dreck. Getting a blog write up these days is worthless. In the good old days, to be heard, you’d have to be filtered to several people before your music got heard by Steve Lamaque or Zane Lowe (when Zane Lowe wasn’t as focused on Harry Styles as he is The Cure).
Q. If you weren’t in music, what career would you have instead?
A. I’d probably have preferred to be a professional footballer.
Q. What cartoon characters would you be?
A. Berk from Trapdoor
Q. What era of music or musical movement influences you the most currently?
A. 90s composition wise, 80s tone wise.
Q. What is the best restaurant in your hometown and what would you recommend to order from there?
A. I live in Hackney, East London, there are way too many with such vast variety. A little New York style bar was doing vegan poke that was one of the best things I’ve ever tasted, but they have residencies there, so I’m not sure if they’re still doing it. Voodoo Rays pizza is also most excellent – the Queen Vegan is killer!
Q. Favourite takeout/restaurant on the road?
A. Umami burger in Silverlake.
Q. Favourite pro wrestling move?
A. Suplex.
Q. Diamond Dogs or Alladin Sane?
A. Aladin Sane.
Q. Do you consider moshing and crowd surfing more intrusive and offensive than fans filming with a phone for most of the show?
A. Depends, if it’s a Pantera show, moshing is essential. The phone thing isn’t really intrusive, it’s just indicative of how social media attention is more important than music for a lot of people these days.
Q. What music video blew your mind the first time you saw it?
A. Bullet With Butterfly Wings – Smashing Pumpkins
Q. If you mainly do vocal tunes, what instrumental song would you cover?
A. Girl/Boy by Aphex Twin
Q. Who is your greatest role model, and why?
A. Alex Ferguson. He ran a football club (not just team) like it was predicted on the Art of War. He knew the names of every single player’s parents, aunties, uncles and grandparents – even the under 15s!
Q. Favourite film, TV or video game score (you can only pick one)?
A. Lost Highway.
Q. What song is an immediate skip to you, and why?
A. I generally only listen to artists that I love every song by. Maybe ‘Mein’ on Saturday Night Wrist by Deftones. Serj from System of a Down taints an otherwise almost perfect album.
Q. What song from any (other) artist would you pick to be your theme song?
A. Geek USA – Pumpkins.
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