The Child may just be the best thing since sliced bread… What can I say? Lead singer Holly Marilyn had me at her accidentally-porno, crotch-split, no-undies on-stage story – oh, and their music happens to be pretty damn good too. Preparing to shoot the video for their first single, Boomerang, the LA-based band are also getting ready to release their debut LP this fall. Meet The Child!
Indigo Clarke: When, how and where did your band meet and come together?
Holly Marilyn: Norm Block (drummer, producer) and I met on Santa’s lap at the White Trash Charms Christmas party, in LA. I think it was 2008. Norm shot me the now classic line, “I wanna know you”. We’ve been a band ever since. Peter Simon (bass) and Lauren White (keys, vox) recently joined and made us complete.
Indigo Clarke: How would you describe your sound to someone who hasn’t heard it?
Holly Marilyn: There are two girls in the band but we are NOT girly. Our music will make you dance, sway, or just sweat. In the best way.
Indigo Clarke: Who writes the songs – is it a collaborative process? Is there anything in particular that inspires you to create or influences your music?
Holly Marilyn: My favourite songs that I write come in sort of a rush, a melody with a lyric, all at the same time. Occasionally I dream fully formed songs, like I’m hearing it at a party. I wake up in a state of confusion trying to figure out if it’s a real song, or if it’s my brain-child. If I’m lucky, I can sing it into a dictaphone and come back to it later. No matter how the idea comes, I take it and sit down at the piano or with a guitar and a notebook and really hammer it out. When I have a general sketch of how the song goes, verse, chorus, etc, I go to Norm’s studio and we fuck it up. Then the rest of the band comes in and fucks it up even more. In the best way.
Indigo Clarke: Have you always been involved with music?
Holly Marilyn: My Dad is a musician. It always seemed like a pretty solid career choice to me. For the most part, it’s been crazy fun.
Indigo Clarke: What are your live shows like?
Holly Marilyn: I once gave myself a black eye with my guitar. On stage. It was epic.
Indigo Clarke: Fashion and music have a complex, often symbiotic, relationship – what are your thoughts on fashion, sexiness and music and how they influence each other?
Holly Marilyn: Fashion, sex, music. Give it to me.
Indigo Clarke: What’s the sexiest outfit you’ve ever worn – and the unsexiest?
Holly Marilyn: At a show in Minneapolis, many years ago, I wore a bright blue, skintight pair of no-stretch trousers. No undies. I danced around the whole show. Afterwards I went to the toilet, pulled down my pants, and where there were supposed to be pants, there was air and I could see right down to the ground. I’d split my pants. You tell me… sexy or unsexy???
Indigo Clarke: Exciting upcoming projects or news for you?
Holly Marilyn: We’re about to shoot our first video for our first single Boomerang. We just finished mixing our debut LP. We’re first releasing an EP, due out in this fall on Manimal!
