The frontman talks about sharing a joint with Paul McCartney, a gig in Texas that almost went very wrong and his gruesome party trick
When I first interviewed you at Harvest festival in Sydney in 2011, you showed me a photo on your phone of decapitated human heads in a large freezer. The freezer belonged to a guy you sourced bones from, which you usedGosh, that’s a great memory. Wow. I remember having that picture – and I would show it to people. Not to very many people but to some people.
Me, you, and the Guardian readership. What has been the most memorable interaction you’ve ever had with a fan? We don’t do fire but we did do fireworks here and there. We were playing a series of shows in Texas and bought a bunch of fireworks and, while we were playing, we literally shot them off the stage. They’re shooting up and hitting us, they’re hitting the audience, they’re hitting the ceiling, they’re hitting everywhere. I mean, it was just fucking insane – you could shoot someone’s eye out, you could shoot your own eye out, you could catch the place on fire, we all could have died.
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