Those zany kids in Bonde do Role – they don’t answer their e-mail, their tour manager misplaces his cell phone – it’s a regular sitcom over in BDR HQ! Too busy livin’ it up, I guess. Anyhooo, after much ado and no interview by the time today’s issue hit print, I finally heard back from the band’s Rodrigo Gorky. Here’s what he coughed up via e-mail; you can check what they’re about for yourself at the Independent on Friday, Sept. 28.
Bay Guardian: How did the band get together?
Rodrigo Gorky: After one rehearsal with a “proper band,” we all just got drunk and started doing baile funk tracks using the most impossible samples possible – from the Darkness to AC/DC and Alice in Chains.
BG: What inspires the group’s lyrics and album and song titles?
RG: Mostly stupid jokes and bad sense of humor that we find funny. (I know, sounds twisted, but that’s what it is!)
BG: The recent album is titled With Lasers – why LASERS?