FAULT: How did you all meet and start making music?

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Me and Alberto (drums) knew at high school and started playing together at 15 till 19.  We talked again about playing my songs in 2009. Closer (bass) joined in the same year. I knew him at University here in Rome several years ago but we never played together.

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FAULT: Do you write from personal experiences?

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Mostly. I write about things I see, things I know, things i dream of. Things I hate, often.

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FAULT: What is the music scene like in Rome, are you inspired by your city?

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It’s quite difficult for indie bands to play around in the beginnings. You won’t get payed, but you have to bring friends who have to pay too see you. It’s sad. We don’t belong to any particular scene. We are following a rather ‘individualistic’ path. Maybe because this city is inspiring like a broken vending machine.

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FAULT: Tell us about your track “safe and automatic”

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The lyrics are thematically different in the verse and the chorus. The verses are based on the modern western way of living, the normalization of oppostional and contradictory daily actions; the ones that are focused on counting their daily kilocalories are the same who cure their children with prescription drugs. Things like these.
The chorus is personal experiences.

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FAULT: What inspires you?

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I think i will never go far from all the most shiny, piercing and abrasive 90’s sounds, and i guess this comes out quite clear when you listen to our songs. Our tendency is to embrace all the issues coming out from 90/92 period, from Sonic Youth to My Bloody Valentine, that themselves embraced the best parts of what happened in the past, from The Stooges to Gang Of Four. But the most inspiring thing, still, is watching television. Our FANTASTIC television. If you lived here you’d understand better.

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FAULT: Do you like new music? if so what are you currently listening to?

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Not that much. But i really loved several records and bands, like No Age, Strange Boys, Deerhunter, Psychedelic Horseshit, The Intelligence. Oh, Liars. Despite my refractory attitude to enjoy the electronic scene, when i saw Fuck Buttons playing live it was quite a blast. It was violent.

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FAULT: What is the most challenging aspect of being a musician?

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This is going to be a little banal, but if you consider yourself a musician (and i’m really not quite sure to be one) and you also write the lyrics, i guess the common wish is your music to arrive to most of people and be completely understood, maybe recognized as…art? Is this too serious? Anyway, i think the really challenging aspect is to be able to live playing music.

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FAULT: What is your FAULT?

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Lazyness. In general. From playing guitar to answer questions.
And the fact i wasn’t born left-handed.
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Lorenzo Vermiglio (guitars/vocals)
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