CLOCKWISE INTERVIEW
October 18, 2002


Ed Martin for Prophecy21.com: How has this tour been going?
Austin Leduc lead singer of Clockwise: Its cool. It's prolly like the first tour we've ever played where the crowd was mostly kids. Which is fuckin cool cause they react a lot more quickly to our attitude, which is more balls to the wall, nasty, foul mouthed, and party ya know. So, were grateful for that. Baltimore was the shit they were totally with us so that was cool. So, it's been alright so far, the bands are cool as fuck too, everybody is real friendly.

P21: What's it like goin from being a relatively small band to getting to open for Sammy Hagar/David Lee Roth and then Alice Cooper?
AL: The Sammy Hagar/David Lee Roth tour was pretty humbling, we were on a side stage. So we weren't enjoying the twenty thousand people that they were drawing, we were on a fucking gay ass side stage. It was cool and as far as the Alice thing that was cool. I mean we got to be in front of a bigger crowd and stuff, but its still work cause no one knows who ya are, but I really don't put the two together as far as being a smaller band and then being jettisoned into something that no one knows who we are anyway. So we haven't had the benefit of necessarily being embraced by a certain amount of crowd and a certain type of people to a bigger crowd ya know what I mean its still work. Your still out there bustin your ass trying to get people to fucking get it.

P21: What do you guys plan to do after this tour?
AL: Find another tour man and keep bustin our asses and keep pushin the album ya know.

P21: What's your favorite part of touring?
AL: There's two aspects to it. The living part of the tour is cool cause in the motels I don't have to clean my room, I can spit on the walls, there is always a clean towel, there is someone there to give directions to where I wanna go and as far as the shows go every fuckin new mother fucker that comes that is down with it; chick or dude, parents or child, anyone who fuckin digs it man that's a thrill and a half. There's nothing that compares to getting somebody to like your music as much as you do or more. So, that's the shit too.

P21: What bands would you like to tour with in the future?
AL: I suppose if I had my choice then like Jane's Addiction, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Audioslave, that new Rage/Cornell thing. Those would all be like miracle happenings.

P21: What caused the albums release date to get pushed back a week?
AL: Some idiot at a fucking printing shop somewhere in New York or where ever the label had the CD being printed turned the photo of us on the back upside down as compared to the label on the spine. So, it's a printing error. How bullshit is that? Its fucking crap.

P21: What's your favorite track on the album?
AL: Right now my favorite track on the album would be Beneath. It's a song about sex on the advantage of the woman's tip. Doing it to make her fucking blow one, doing it to make her have an orgasm instead of yourself. It's a rager it's a full blast in your face tune. I dig that one the most right now.

P21: What bands did you grow up listening to and do you feel they influenced your writing style?
AL: I still don't really think I know what I'm doing when I'm writing. Its like an eyes closed kinda just feel your way around kind of thing. But, the bands that influenced me were definetly like Rage Against The Machine, the way there music sounded like the riffs and stuff like that. Again Jane's Addiction, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden, all those grunge bands. I'm on the down low of fuckin grunge, all those bands were real bands that gave a shit about the music and not just being a rock star ya know. So, they definitely influenced us.

P21: What was the first album you ever bought?
AL: Fuck, ya know the first album I ever bought had to be like some kind of fuckin Phil Collins or some shit like that, something embarassin like Kylie Minogue Locomotion or some shit like that. But the first one I ever bought that I knew I was buyin a rock album, I bought three of em at the same time; Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Mother's Milk, and Jane's Addiction's self titles release. I had those three tapes sitting on top of my cheap shit stereo like they were something special. Which they were but they were sittin there, they were tapes too, I didn't have money for CDs.

P21: Do you guys ever play covers live and if you could pick any song to cover what would it be?
AL: Well we've had kind of a revolving door since we got done with the album with our guitarists. But, we did play a cover of Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains right after Layne Staley died. But, this grouping of guitar players doesn't know a cover and I guess if we were gonna play one we've discussed like Paradise City by Guns 'n' Roses but I don't think I could sing it. If we could handle it we'd do that one though.

P21: Are you guys one of those bands that likes to live the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll lifestyle to the extreme?
AL: Nah bro, we couldn't afford that if we tried to anyway. We're more about drinking and havin a good time as long as it doesn't fuck up the band. The band is what were stoked on and its our addiction. If anybody was to even remotely step to the stage fuckin fucked up or hungover it'd mean major problems in our group, so.

P21: How did you guys come up with the name of the band?
AL: Basically, we didn't like the name that we had. This was only back in April and I just started lookin round the room and saw a clock and picked up the clockwise thing and knew it rolled off the tongue nicely. And none of us fucking argues about it so that was basically it there's no like hidden meaning behind it.

P21: What was the old name?
AL: Fatter Than Albert. No shit. You know who Fat Albert is?

P21: Yeah of course, the cartoon character.
AL: Cool, some cats your age don't know who Fat Albert is. Yeah, but that was the name of the band before and since I'm so skinny and white and we take our shit so seriously we ditched that name cause it was fuckin stupid.

P21: For people that haven't heard you guys yet how would you describe your sound?
AL: Straight ahead balls to the wall rock 'n' roll.

P21: RCA seems to be pushing the fact that you guys are from Vegas what do you think the importance of coming from Vegas is on your music?
AL: I'm totally down with it I want people to know where we come from, cause no other bands really have come from Vegas and if you were ever to come see us in our hometown you'd know why we keep talkin bout it. You know not only are we in love with our hometown and the way it works and the way it spins and the way it doesn't shut down and the way it feeds us and gets us fucked up and all that but the town embraces us like you wouldn't believe. So its kind of our way of sayin we love our hometown. Vegas runs in our blood man as soon as we step on stage its just pure balls to the wall, nasty abandonment.

P21: What are some of your other favorite places to play?
AL: San Antonio was fuckin dope. From what I've heard from other people that town is just pure fuckin rock 'n' roll. And all of Ohio dude, we played Toledo, Cleveland, Cincinatti all just in the last week before we joined this tour. They were rad bro. Every one of those fucking cities were just fucking down dude. They were totally about like letting loose grabbin a fuckin beer and getting the fuck down. I really haven't been to too many places so far you know where I was actually in a proper venue where the focus was on us. When we played with Sammy and Dave again we were on the shit side stage and people didn't even know they were supposed to pay attention to us. In these places we played with Alice and even since we started playin here on this tour people were startin to focus on us like they should ya know. But Ohio has to just like rule the country. The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is there so ya know there must be something special bout the place. They had fuckin Strat guitars all up and down the streets in downtown Cleveland. Dude its rad, they've got like 8-foot Stratocaster guitars just lining the different corners of downtown. That shit is dope dude.

P21: That's all I've got unless there is something you wanna add?
AL: Just we're the shit sooner or later. Eventually every motherfucker out there is gonna know who we are dude. And thanks for takin your time to talk with me I appreciate it.

P21: Thank you too.