Jurassic Pop [Interview]
This is the greatest interview you will ever read.
Your first hit is called Whoever You Are, Whoever You’re With, You Must ALWAYS Make Time To Get With Jeff. What makes Jeff Goldblum so damn sexy?
Just look at him! On a purely physical level it’s those smouldering good looks, his barely concealed chiselled chest and his devil-may-get-a-hard-on dress sense!
Dust below that exterior though, past the sizzling dry wit and humour and you get to what makes Jeff just irresistible. He’s SO. FUCKING. WISE. While everybody else dances around getting excited about playing God, he’s the man who dollops out the sense of cynicism – and ALL of the best lines. Life will find a way.
2000 Trees Festival are letting you loose on their stage this year. What can the curious expect from your set?
I know right? Idiots!
So basically Jurassic Pop pride ourselves on bringing a lo-fi set full of brazen dinosaur enthusiasm, pop hooks, and every lyric carefully crafted about Jurassic Park. There will be an inflatable T-Rex, a bass player so ugly that we had to chain him into a raptor mask (I’m serious – he wears that thing full time now), and we’ll no doubt have some JP trading cards to give out. So bring your swapsies!
We’re not a band that will change your life, but we’ll have a lot of fun in the process of not doing so.
What’s the most insane thing that’s ever happened during a Jurassic Pop show?
We actually had a live excavation of a Dilophosaurus in The Cellar in Oxford when we opened for Salvation Bill. The promoter lost a LOT of money that night.
What’s Jurassic Pop’s origin story?
Well. We all grew up in the early 90’s when JP was the defining film of our childhood – and despite coming from different regions, we came together as bit-part actors playing a gang of kids in the ill-fated Jurassic Park 3.
We were cast as a bunch of loveable misfits who got into a load of raptor-based scrapes (with hilarious consequences of course), but unfortunately were later cut from the final drafts of the movie. As the money ran out, we became more boisterous with producers as they denied us food – and eventually [they] abandoned us just off the coast of Isla Nublar in a small raft.
We landed after a few edgy weeks learning how to sail, and lived off the land scavenging leftover merch and food from the original set. Luckily Philth (our saxophonist) had done a course in crafting small instruments from jungle debris – so he made us some instruments, which allowed us to pass those long winter nights by forming Jurassic Pop.
Eventually, we were rescued by Chris Pratt, who colluded with Hammond to buy our silence by pumping an unholy amount of cash into the band. Now, here we are!
According to your Facebook page, you’re managed by Dr John Hammond – and although he seems nice and cuddly, I’m betting he has a dark side. How many asses has he kicked on your behalf? Has he ever killed a man, just because you dared him to?
He is a lovely, sane, and rational man who has definitely never maimed a show rep just because she bought him the wrong hue of camouflage hat. He has also certainly never defrauded the Costa Rican government for hundreds of thousands of pounds to pay for our expensive, yet ill advised, tour of fossil collections across the globe.
At the end of the first Jurassic Park movie, the T-Rex beats the raptors. But let’s say the raptors get resurrected, get all their mates together, work out a different strategy, and go back for Round Two. What happens?
You seem to be riffing on the end of Jurassic World here, and I like that a lot. However, if it was a straight up fight, there’s only one winner no matter HOW clever those girls are. Especially as actually raptors are the size of chickens, right?
If money were no object, what would your stage show be like?
Apocalyptic. Somewhere between GWAR and the Restaurant At The End of the Universe, with a healthy dose of [Dennis] Nedry in stocks, ready for the audience to toss heavy sponges at.
What’s your biggest goal as a band?
Scoring an interview with The Musical Melting Pot. That having been achieved, we would give anything to play at the official launch for the Jurassic World DVD/ Blu-Ray.
We’re also releasing our debut EP on Fierce Panda in October, and it would be GREAT for that to go number 1 in Costa Rica.
Or shag Goldblum. Whichever.
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