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In another time, another place two buccaneers in tight pants have pulled off the ultimate act of musical piracy. They have stolen another band's music and sold it back to that band's own fans, they've sold a million albums, been accused of ruining music and have eventually killed each other. Why did they rise from the dead to torment us even further?
Why were Cabinet and Money unable to find in death the peace that eluded them in life? Four years ago we met a distinctly pale looking Lee Cabinet to find out.
"After we rose from the dead Money was a complete zombie, I think he'd been drugged and electrocuted by the Lizards that controlled Jam Factory Records because when I suggested doing remixes of the Is Dead album and calling it Kettlecup Undead he said that he hated remixes and that he hated all the songs off Kettlecup Is Dead and that he hated me. I tried to get involved in the Hasselhoff project; I had to remix tracks in secret while he was asleep. He actually moved his PC into his bedroom and slept on top of it to stop me working on that album. Now that it has been out for four years and sold zero units I realise that we should have done Kettlecup Undead.
Actually being undead changed what I wanted to acheive with the Undead album and when I started experimenting with the sounds I had collected for the project Money and the lizards were NOT into it - it was just way too radical for them. They started working on his transmogrification and I went depeer underground creating ambient soundscapes from our musical history combined with zombie sound effects. At the time we seriously wanted to kill each other and as we were undead we had to try to destroy each others brains ... which didn't happen, but suffice to say there was no chance of Kettlecup Undead being released by the Lizards. It features disorientating slowed down versions of our songs that I use in magical rituals. You probably couldn't handle it."
That was 2003; the world, and music have changed a lot since then. The undead have been reintegrated into society and there seems to have been a reconcilliation at the Jam Factory. Gary Money IS dead, his brain HAS been destroyed; but it's been replaced with an advanced form of nano technology which means that he can play guitar and has revolutionised music but now believes that he is Russian! We met him and Cabinet at the renovated Jam Factory headquarters where they are planning their performance for this years EVE festival which they hold on the Saturday before Halloween every year.
"I know that people say I used to be Gary Money but I really can't believe it - to me I've always been Barry Pyramid and I was born in Pyramiden in Russia, I remember my childhood in Russia, I try not to think about it too much." He looks forlorn.
Cabinet looks pleased.
"It's actually happening ... we're working together again, Gary, sorry Barry is a musical genius, when he found me I was wasting my life on drugs and he just saved my life! He made me finish Kettlecup Undead, he dug it out of my head bit by bit and reconstructed it using super computers that he designed himself. Like some mad Doctor Frankenstein he's reanimated the whole thing ... and played guitar on it! We're just deciding whether to peform it in full live at this years EVE."
Money : "and ... we slept in the same bed"
Less than half a mile away at the Jam Industries business development unit, the bursar is stood over his VDU checking the corporation's finances. They are in a deplorable state. He runs a projection through the mainframe and soon realises that one more concept album is all it will take to finish the corporation for good. It must be stopped. |
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