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song, it could be a miserable song, but, actually, We tell Wednesday that we particularly like
it’s both. Some people love misery. ‘Decapitation’ and ‘No Apologies’, both of which
How would Wednesday define a successful have been chosen as singles.
relationship? What does he think a relationship He talks about getting Taime Downe, who
needs to be successful? sings on ‘No Apologies’, in the video for the
“Good question,” he replies. “I wish I had a song. “We got Taime Downe in the video for us,
good answer for that. I don’t know… Honesty. which was a huge check on my rock ‘n’ roll
Giving people their space makes a good rela- dream book. Faster Pussycat was a huge influ-
tionship. There are some people that can’t func- ence on me. I blame this look, this hat, black hair
tion without another person being right was because I saw Taime Downe dye his hair
connected to them. I don’t want to be a conjoined black on the third Faster Pussycat album when I
twin. I need my space sometimes, so I think… was in high school. I went, ‘I want to do that’. To
My relationship with my lady, it’s the space. fast forward to him being in the studio and
When I’m on tour and I’m busy for a couple of singing on my record was just insane. That was
days and she doesn’t hear from me, she’s not as important to me as when I had Alice Cooper
giving me a hard time about it. Finding someone on my record. Taime’s been a friend for a while
who can trust you to do these kind of things, I now and he came in and did this track. I didn’t
guess that’s what makes it, but I’m very lucky in originally have him in mind for it. I wrote the song
that sense.” and was in the studio. Our producer just said, ‘It’s
got a Faster Pussycat vibe to it,’ and I went,
ednesday has been producing fun, ‘Yeah, I guess it does.’ And he went, ‘You should
Wleave-your-brain-at-the-door, horror-in- call up Taime, get him to sing on it,’ and I just
spired, punk rock gems for decades. Even be- went, ‘OK’.”
fore he produced music under his own name of He motions putting a phone to his ear.
Wednesday 13, or in Murderdolls, he was creat- “It was kinda that simple, and he came and
ing horror punk songs. One of his earlier bands, did it, and it turned out killer. It’s one of my
Maniac Spider Trash, released an EP called favourite songs. I’m glad you like it as well. A lot
‘Dumpster Mummies’, while Frankenstein Drag of people like it.”
Queens From Planet 13 released long-players He tells us more about ‘No Apologies’. “It’s
such as ‘Night Of The Living Drag Queens’ and not a personal song that I was directing towards
‘Songs From The Recently Deceased’. And, anyone. I think I was just looking back on my ca-
while some bands form and release politically- reer a little bit and just seeing where I was. I was,
charged singles, or albums that makes you think ‘You know, I’m just standing here, all these years
or want to change the world, Wednesday 13 has later, unapologetic about it.’ I did a lot of things,
always used his music as a source of entertain- good and bad, but I know it all made me who I
ment – rather like when you put on a horror am today, so ‘No Apologies’ is just where I am
movie on late on a Saturday night, to unwind and today, standing there. But, I’ve also just had peo-
relax. ple in my life… I don’t know… just listen to the
Wednesday says, “Especially in the climate lyrics. Some of it is a little personal, but I also
of the internet now, everything… It just seems kind of write it where people can fill in the blanks.
not good and not fun right now. For me, the spirit Everyone knows someone like that. Again, it’s
of rock ‘n’ roll is just how it’s always been… prob- another middle finger song. You can’t go wrong
ably more so now, just because I don’t see it the with that kind of stuff.”
way I used to see it. It makes me want to wave
the flag even harder and go ‘Look at what we’re he 12-track album has a particularly the-
doing! We’re still…’ And I’m not doing anything Tatrical intro to ‘Blood Storm’, before the
new. I’m not doing anything different. I’m doing song turns into a fast punk rampage. Wednes-
what I’ve always done. Maybe doing it a little bet- day sings, ‘Reborn, into the storm’. He tells us
ter now. I’m still doing the same thing, but music about ‘Blood Storm’. “That song, particularly, is
has shifted so differently now, that what we’re probably the only song on the record that is kind
doing almost feels new to younger people. We’re of a personal thing. It was about me getting
just doing classic rock. And classic rock… no- through the drinking. ‘Blood Storm’ is me getting
one writes music in that formula any more. I just through all the struggles, I could say ‘life’. I didn’t
did a song with our opening band, Dead Rabbits. want to call the song ‘Life Storm’; it wasn’t any-
It’s a killer track, but it’s not a Wednesday 13 where near as cool as ‘Blood Storm’. That song
song. A complete difference there. And it made is about getting through the struggles, getting
me realise just how different my music is, com- through the storm, and that’s what those lyrics
pared to modern music these days. And I’m not are about. You can hear the song and think it’s
bashing modern music at all. I’m just comparing about ‘Oh, the sky’s raining blood. This sounds
the differences of them.” like it’s a Zombie song,’ but it’s getting through
On the subject of fun, Wednesday says that all the troubles onto the other side and being a
he had fun recording ‘In Misery’. “Because the stronger person. Yeah, that’s sort of my personal
song kind of came as an accident,” he says. “It’s song that I put in subliminally into the album.”
one of my favourite songs. It’s the second single Many people will be able to relate to ‘Blood
and video from the album, and I played all the Storm’. Whether, like Wednesday, they’ve given
lead guitar on it. And I didn’t even go into that up drinking and are now living life much clearer
studio thinking I was going to play guitar at all, and sober, or whether they have got through
and I ended up doing rhythms, I did the lead gui- other storms, whether it be the loss of a family
tar on that song, and it turned out really cool, so member or relationship, a job, health scares and
it was just like an accomplishment for me to see other crises. Life brings us storms and we have
that I could do all the stuff on it. So, that song, in the power within us all to get through them and
particular, is just special to me. But this is the first come out the other side, stronger and more re-
record where I couldn’t pick a single. It was hard. silient. Wednesday has – and so can you.
I like the last three songs as much as I like the Visit www.officialwednesday13.com for more
first three songs. And I changed the track listing info.
a million times. I had the last song as the first
song at one point. This was an odd problem I Words By Shari Black Velvet
had this time – and it really wasn’t a problem, it
was a good thing. I had a whole album of sin- Photos By Anabel DFlux
gles, is what I felt like.”
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