The Dwarves Won’t Die
“I was abducted by aliens, taken to a remote part of Adelaide and sodomised by Olivia Newton John,” DWARVES vocalist BLAG DAHLIA reminisces of his previous visit to Australia.
The San Francisco punk icons are headed back to our shores in support of their latest sordid (punk) rock n roll intrigue, The Dwarves Must Die. “I’m five years ahead of my time,” Dahlia comments. The new album – testament to the fact – is a warped masterpiece infused with art rock, hip hop, hardcore, garage, pop and punk.
Critics have pegged it as the best Dwarves album ever! Dahlia agrees, “Sure, absolutely.” One person that doesn’t share the confident front man’s sentiments though is Queens Of The Stoneage’s, Josh Homme.
According to reports, late last year Homme struck Dahlia over the head with a beer bottle before a Dwarves gig in Hollywood. “I think that he must be retarded or something. He’s not in control of himself,” Dahlia answers when asked of the incident.
Sources have it that, Homme’s didn’t appreciate Blag’s sense of humour. The track in question, Massacre off their latest record containing the lyrics: “This one goes out to Queens of the Trustfund / You slept on my floor and now I’m sleeping through your motherfucking records.” Dahlia eludes, “He didn’t say what it was for so it’s hard to say why he hit me? I think that it’s pretty safe to say that he doesn’t have much of a sense of humour.”
Homme’s hit back at the lyrics in Rolling Stone with the comment, ‘Blag is like Vanilla Ice, Snow and Kid n Play all at the same time; his dreams have come true, he’s a rapper!’ to which Dahlia laughs, “Yeah well, I guess he’s entitled to his opinion. I’m just making the best record I can. I’m doing my thing and talking shit where I think it’s appropriate. I just called him for what he is and he knows it.”
So did Blag have reservations about doing hip hop styled tracks on the record?
“There’s stuff on there that is hip-hop stuff that people wouldn’t even know it was hip-hop,” he explains continuing, “Because it’s taken from sixties tunes or punk jams and looping them like they’re hip-hop tracks but, since they have guitars in them no one says they’re hip-hop tracks. You take a song like Massacre, it’s more of a conventional looped hip-hop track but it’s played live so, it’s not as much like a hip-hop track. All the lyrics are about whack rock bands like The Queens or Good Charlotte – whack big label joke bands. To me it’s just an inversion of different styles.”
With the release of, The Dwarves Must Die comes rumours that this could be their last album. “That’s always the rumour, it’s always the last one,” Dahlia replies. “We’ve been doing the last one forever.”
Then if this really was the last Dwarves’ would Blag still be…
“I would still be a rock legend!” he concludes.
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