Interview with Rachel

Rachel Feldmann recently took a minute from working at Papa John’s Pizza, playing in about 10 bands including Lipstick Homicide, Everybody Nose, Samuel Locke-Ward and the Boo-Hoos, Grism, Petit Mal, and Leslie and the Lys, and taking her ‘runk’ (?) in Coralville to answer a few questions for Public School Records about her life.

Z – I like that you represent Coralville (Iowa). What do you like about it?

R – I like Coralville cuz there’s lots of fast food restaurants to choose from like Taco John’s . Plus its a great place to raise 3 cats.

Z – Can you tell me the story of Lipstick Homicide’s origins and how the band came to be where it is today?

R – Lipstick Homicide started pretty much the second me and Kate Kane met and started the band The Whoopsie Daisies in 2004 or 2005 when I was a sophomore or maybe a freshman and she was a junior at Iowa City West High. Kate called me on the phone because she saw me playing the song “Rape Me” at the talent show and wanted to start a band. Me and Kate both really like to play each others songs so we still do to this day. We changed our name in 2006 I think and recorded our first album with Luke (Ferguson) on drums at the UAY (United Action for Youth center in Iowa City) . We had like 11 songs , and they’re not very good except for Kate’s songs. It’s 5 years later now and we’re definitely an entirely different band sound-wise. We’ve had a handful of different members but it’ll always be me and Kate and Luke.

Z – What if you could play a show every day? Would you do it? What do you like best about shows?

R – I would love to play a show everyday. I like to play shows because i just like to play really loud and sing a lot. It’s pretty much the funnest thing ever. I also like to make new friends sometimes at shows.

Z – What music have you listened to in the last 24 hours?

R – Hm last 24 hours… This new guy was playing some awful Irish punk like Fogging Molly or something at work and i wanted to puke. I listened to Elvis Costello with Trevor and a bunch of 50s/60 girl groups with Kate.

Z – Is pizza your perfect food? Tell me why and if you have any favorites. Talk about pizza.

R – Yeah pizza is the perfect food! Because whatever you’re in the mood for, there is a pizza to satisfy any craving! I think barbecue pizza is my favorite but also anything with chicken or pineapple.

Z – Tell me about Everybody Nose and your new songs.

R – Everybody Nose is a band that is me, Trevor who used to play guitar in Lipstick Homicide, Luke who is in Lipstick Homicide, and our friend Molly who has been my good friend since elementary school. Luke and Trevor and sometimes me and sometimes Kate were a band called the Sequels several years ago and we’d just play at talent shows and maybe at UAY once or twice. Just recently we wanted to start playing some old Sequels songs as well as some other songs that me and Trevor wrote together. We just recorded last week and posted them on the internet. The purpose of the band is for our own fun. Most of our songs are about silly things.

Z – What would you do on your ideal day off?

R – My ideal day off would be spent laying on the couch and eating any food I want, including ice cream and I dont have to move all day, and i get to hang out with my friends. Sometimes I get to do this every other day.

Z – If you were rich right now, how would you spend the money?

R – If I was rich right now I’d wanna get a motorcycle I think. I’d be so cool.

Z – It seems like you and Kate watch a lot of reality television. What’s your favorite show? Why?

R – We watch reality TV because we lost the remote and cant get the DVD player to work so we can’t watch sweet movies. Our fave shows would probably have to be Steve Wilkos, Hoarders, anything with Dr. Drew, Police Women of Broward County, and I like all hose lock up raw shows, too. I think bad tv is pretty awesome.

Z – Tell me about the new Lipstick Homicide album, recording it, how you feel about it, all that.

R – The new Lipstick Homicide album is called “Isnt it Glorious” and it’s 11 songs recorded by Luke Tweedy (Flat Black Studios). It’s a little better than our first CD.

Z – What is your foremost project that you are working on now?

R – Right now Lipstick Homicide is about to go record again hopefully for some split 7″s this fall. We’re always working on new songs. Also writing and recording Everybody Nose songs when i get the time.

Z – Are you ready to go on tour with me??

R – I’m so ready to go on tour with you. Lets go tomorrow!!!!!! Do you even know how much fun its going to be????

Z – Who is your favorite horror movie monster or villain?

R – Either the dead girlfriend demon who does the dance in ‘Evil Dead 2′ or the baby from ‘Dead Alive’.

Here are links to Lipstick Homicide and Everybody Nose

Check out the Events Calendar for Lipstick Homicide on tour with Grism (me, Rachel, Kate, and Grace from Petit Mal) the last two weeks of July!

-Zach