Alpha Male Tea Party [Interview]

Alpha Male Tea Party

With ArcTanGent Festival on the horizon, TMMP talks to Tom of macho-monikered math-rock madmen Alpha Male Tea Party about ATG, car tax, plastic surgery fantasies, and pail-related enlightenment…

You’re set to hit ArcTanGent 2015 this week. How’re you feeling about it?

We’re feeling pretty rad right now. And, by that I mean, we’re very excited to be playing at our favourite festival again. It will be wild.

What’s the best thing about festivals for you?

It’s the only time no one will care if you are caught using a tepid can of Strongbow or similarly low quality beverage as a means to swill your mouth out after brushing your teeth. That and the general lack of real life. Your car tax could expire (as mine did one year) at a festival, and you wouldn’t give a shit.

Although I did give a shit actually; I drove to a neighbouring town that had phone signal so I could pay for a new one. Sometimes real life is inescapable.

Do you have anything special planned for your ATG set?

Who told you about that?

If money and good taste weren’t issues, what would your stage setup look like?

Like Billy Joel. We’d clone Billy Joel. We’d have Billy Joel on everything. Billy Joel would haunt the dreams of every attendee. We’d have all our faces surgically transformed into Billy Joel. But also, we’d park all three of our silver family hatchbacks on stage.

Beyond ATG, what’ve you got in store for the rest of the year?

We are going to Europe for the first time ever in October with best mates Cleft and Axes, and then we’re going to try and write a new album.

What’s left on your bucket list?

I don’t have a list of buckets; who keeps a list of buckets lying about the place? Surely there’s only a few different types of bucket anyway – and when does a bucket stop being a bucket and becomes a pail?

Actually, I just looked that up. Technically, any bucket is a pail. Cool.

Links

Alpha Male Tea Party official website.

ArcTanGent Festival official website.

Follow TMMP via Twitter and my brand new Facebook page, after you’ve double-checked your car tax expiry date. It’s cool – we can wait.

Image © Michelle Roberts.

Posted on 19 August 2015

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