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\n<\/a>\u201cHow much can we push ourselves and shock ourselves and be loud and we just want to make really earthy music, music that makes our bodies move and makes other people\u2019s bodies move that\u2019s like kind of rock and roll, it\u2019s hedonistic, it\u2019s a hedonistic genre, it\u2019s music that people want to drink to, fuck to and dance to and scream to and crowd surf to.\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: “We met at a crochet class” is not something you would expect to hear from this brash LA pair. Bonding over their love of threading and classic rock, Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards joined musical forces in 2011. Shattering the image of a stereotypical girl band, they have excited their peers, fans and industry alike with their heavy, feisty rock n roll performances. From supporting rock royalty Eagles of Death Metal, Muse and The Vaccines to a string of headline shows in the UK this month and spots on Coachella and Spain\u2019s FIB later this year, they will continue to electrify.<\/p>\n

We got to sit down with the lovely ladies of Deap Vally for a chat about the band, their sound, their best lies as well as a side spin on Nirvana and just their overall love for what they do. It really shows and I wish them all the success they deserve!<\/p>\n

Welcome to Australia! It is your First time here, so what do you think so far?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> Yeah it\u2019s awesome, I just wish we had more time to find out what it\u2019s about, but it\u2019s cool. We\u2019re just getting our toes wet and testing it out. We love it.<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re playing a couple of shows, can you give us an idea of just what a Deap Vally show entails?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> They can expect to have their balls rocked off\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> They can expect to have their ears buzzing after the show\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> They can expect to feel a sense of uninhibited danger\u2026 They can expect to have a good time.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Yeah
\n And then collect your balls at the end of the show on the way out\u2026<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> Yes at the front desk\u2026<\/p>\n

It is so rock and roll the way you guys met, is that a true story?<\/strong>
\nBoth:<\/strong> Yeah *laughs*<\/p>\n

How does that happen?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> How does it happen? I worked at that knitting shop for like five years, and I don\u2019t work there anymore cause Lindsey walked in. So many knitters\u2026 but it\u2019s funny you wouldn\u2019t think it. You meet a lot of cool women who knit and crochet because it\u2019s a creative pursuit and it\u2019s a combination of engineering and execution and yeah I met a lots of really awesome women.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> It was surprisingly a fun little scene in there, I mean not surprisingly but apparently surprising to some people, but we would have so much fun just sitting in there knitting and chatting and stuff.<\/p>\n

It really is a cool story\u2026<\/strong>
\nLindsey:<\/strong> I think so, I think some people think it\u2019s really ironic, but I don\u2019t really think so.
\nJulie:<\/strong> You know Kelley Deal published a book of knit bag patters that she wrote, so clearly this is not new.<\/p>\n

The name of the band, is there a story behind it?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> Well it\u2019s kind of a reference to a region, the Deep Valley which is like deep in the San Fernando valley, where I grew up and also like the way we talk, we have the valley girl accent and people would make fun of it because people don\u2019t think it\u2019s cool. It\u2019s really prevalent now because of reality TV actually, because I think of reality TV that\u2019s how the whole world will talk soon which I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a good thing.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> This sort of stereotype was made famous by movies like \u2018Clueless\u2019 and \u2018Valley Girl\u2019 so yeah it was like a diss when we were growing up and people would be like \u2018you\u2019re a valley girl\u2019 or \u2018you talk like a valley girl\u2019 but you can help it because that\u2019s just how you learn to talk.
\nJulie:<\/strong> You can\u2019t help where you\u2019re from, like being from LA the Valley\u2019s not cool. If you\u2019re from the west side, or LA proper or one of the beach communities, that\u2019s cool, but being from the valley is not cool.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> But I also think though now it\u2019s so widespread that everyone in Southern California talks like a valley girl.
\nJulie:<\/strong> Yeah I think everyone in the world that speaks English first talks like a valley girl.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Well, not England, right?
\nJulie:<\/strong> They talk like chavs\u2026<\/p>\n

And you just changed the spelling of the words to make it look cooler?<\/strong>
\nLindsey:<\/strong> There you go\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> Well Deep Valley spelled normally just doesn\u2019t really reflect us, it\u2019s too like wholesome or country\u2026 it takes itself too seriously; we like to have a sense of humour about everything we do.<\/p>\n

Your debut album is due in May, tell us a bit of what we can expect to hear?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> I mean there\u2019s some dynamic in there, I think there\u2019s some surprises, but I think in essence it\u2019s a rock and roll album and I think it draws from a lot of different moments of rock, there\u2019s some punk elements, there\u2019s some more kind of like stonesy, bluesy type things, with some little trips\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> So it\u2019s a journey, it\u2019s certainly not one dimensional, there\u2019s definitely a lot of different flavours on there.
\nJulie:<\/strong> Yeah, there\u2019s like a six minute song on there\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> There\u2019s a six minute like Pink Floydian\u2026
\n Pink Floydian? Is that an actual term?<\/strong>
\nLindsey:<\/strong> It is now *laughs*
\nJulie:<\/strong> That\u2019s a floydian slip\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> There\u2019s some really sick gospel that Julie does on the album, some gospel singing. She can hit notes I can\u2019t.
\n Let\u2019s wait and see\u2026<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> *laughs*<\/p>\n

Has it got a name yet that you can tell us?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> Yeah, \u2018Sistrionix\u2019, well it\u2019s a word we came up with, it\u2019s sisters and histrionics, so it describes us\u2026<\/p>\n

Now, your newest single is called \u2018Lies\u2019, so fess up, what\u2019s the biggest lie you\u2019ve ever told?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> I was trying to get sympathy from my friends for being mean to me when I was like eleven, and I told them all that my parents were getting a divorce and that was totally a lie, but it made them be nice to me for the whole duration of lunch, so I bought myself some time\u2026 *laughs* my parents will read that now\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Oh God, this is so bad, I told my grandma I was a virgin when I wasn\u2019t anymore\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> That\u2019s OK, you need to spare some people some details you know?
\nLindsey:<\/strong> That\u2019s true\u2026 Grandma, I love you.<\/p>\n

Who or what inspires you musically to create the sound and songs that became Deap Vally?<\/strong>
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Oh God so many awesome people?
\nJulie:<\/strong> Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Tina Turner, Black Sabbath, Yeah Yeah Yeahs they\u2019re one of my favourite bands and we\u2019re going to be gigging with them so that\u2019s like a dream come true. Hole, Nirvana\u2026<\/p>\n

Do you realise that Kurt has been gone nineteen years ago today?<\/strong>
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Crazy\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> That\u2019s really depressing and sad for so many reasons\u2026 what would he look like if he were still alive?
\nLindsey:<\/strong> I mean Dave Grohl looks great\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> Yeah but Dave Grohl got to learn a lesson\u2026 whatever happened to Krist Novoselic though?
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Is that Pap Smear?
\nJulie:<\/strong> *laughs* No, Pat Smear, Pap Smear *laughs* when we have a really bad show we call it a public pap smear because it feels like we just spread our legs and everyone looked inside\u2026 like an awkward show. What would Kurt Cobain look like? \u00a0I feel like he\u2019d be fat and his face would be bloated.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> He\u2019d be like an awesome dad you know\u2026<\/p>\n

How does it feel to you when a name such as Led Zeppelin is thrown around in describing your sound?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s fucking incredible, Jesus Christ\u2026 Led Zeppelin is the beginning, the middle and the end. They\u2019ve covered it all and did it with such swagger and bombast and creativity and hair and rad pants.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Yeah it\u2019s definitely flattering, it\u2019s almost laughable though to be compared to your idols, it sounds kind of silly.
\nJulie:<\/strong> maybe we could get there someday? It\u2019s a good thing to aspire to.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Also there was four of them and only two of us.
\nWell then it should only take half as long\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> There you go\u2026<\/p>\n

In the two years since forming it seems you\u2019ve already done a fair bit what stands out as the best moment so far?<\/strong>
\nLindsey:<\/strong> There\u2019s been loads, I mean endless amounts\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> The time we met Jimmy Page, the time we jammed out with Mumford and Sons\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> The time Matt Bellamy played the \u2018End of the World\u2019 riff on stage at an arena.
\nJulie:<\/strong> We just did our first headlining tour in the States and that was sold out, and so far we\u2019ve just been building fans and we\u2019ve been opening for a lot of bands and been playing for other people\u2019s fans and just that whole tour was so incredible because we were all there on the same page speaking the same language, and just rock the fuck out and there was crowd surfing and moshing and people singing along to the guitar riffs and I think that\u2019s really a stand out experience and just awesome, we\u2019re really grateful for that.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> There\u2019s so many, we just played a festival, Rock en Seine in Paris, that was just really surprisingly energetic, there was like five thousand people watching us, singing along and we had no idea that there would be anyone watching us, so it was exciting.
\nJulie:<\/strong> we\u2019re going to play Coachella, and last year we got to hang out at Coachella which was super fun and yeah that\u2019s going to be super exciting, but this year unfortunately, well not unfortunately, but last year we got to just hang and this year we\u2019re in and out and in and out because we just got some shows with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs which is incredible because they\u2019re our heroes. Karen O changed both of our lives with the punk ass feminism she presented\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> and also just the climate of music they presented, they\u2019re just really special to us and with her kind of fun aspect of performing, and Nick Zinner, he\u2019s one of my guitar heroes, he\u2019s so creative and rhythmic in the parts he creates.
\nJulie:<\/strong> We really want to open for The Rolling Stones, so if someone can arrange that in 2013\u2026<\/p>\n

So what do you think it is that attracts people to your music?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> Well I think there\u2019s a lot of things about it and I think we\u2019ve come to terms that there\u2019s just a certain segment of our audience who is just into the girlie show aspect of it, whether they\u2019re music heads or not, but I think musically a lot of people are saying that the world needed this right now, something about what we\u2019re doing that is so raw and honest and we put it all out there and it\u2019s very sincere and realistic.
\nLindsey:\u00a0<\/strong> It\u2019s really unhinged, it\u2019s really like unrestrained\u00a0 and I think a lot of the musical climate that we\u2019ve been in for a long time is really safe characterised by having a lot of restraint you know?\u00a0 As much restraint as possible\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> By making music you can license to like health care or something\u2026
\nLindsey:<\/strong> So I think we represent the complete opposite to that, you know, just how much can we push ourselves and shock ourselves and be loud and we just want to make really earthy music, music that makes our bodies move and makes other people\u2019s bodies move that\u2019s like kind of rock and roll, it\u2019s hedonistic, it\u2019s a hedonistic genre, it\u2019s music that people want to drink to, fuck to and dance to and scream to and crowd surf to. I don\u2019t know, I think people are hungry for that. I know that the music is always around, but as far as what is presented to the mainstream, to the majority of the population, it hasn\u2019t really been presented to people for a while, so I think we represent that, a nee temperature in the musical world so that\u2019s exciting.
\nJulie:<\/strong> It\u2019s also such a live thing, I think in the major label world a lot of music gets lost because a lot of music gets focal grouped in a studio and sort of built and created and then everybody figures out how to play it, so it\u2019s so different when you see a real rock band, there\u2019s an amazing rock scene in LA, there\u2019s a killer second class of rock bands, people who are just sweating and bleeding out the show, so we\u2019re so used to seeing it, we see it all the time, but people at large don\u2019t get to see that, they\u2019ll go see a band that has an awesome single but it\u2019s like the two guys in the band and then some hired people and everyone\u2019s a pro and everyone can play it, but they\u2019re not like giving themselves that way, and I think it\u2019s refreshing to people and inspiring to people. I mean us rock heads we\u2019re used to it, the only point is to give it , we don\u2019t want to see a band that looks bored and disengaged, ever, like there\u2019s no reason to even go, but I think maybe for the population at large it\u2019s a nice refreshing thing to see that. Mumford and Sons is a band like that, even though they\u2019re not rock I mean those guys give it every show, they\u2019re so giving to the audience, they\u2019re really there to like just lose themselves and communicate and everything.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Also there\u2019s no safety net with us on stage, there\u2019s just the two of us, so like it\u2019s not like there\u2019s so many bands that have so many people on stage, there\u2019s that safety net, this wall of sound where you almost can\u2019t even tell who is playing what, where with us, if one of us messes up every one hears it, but our attitude is who cares, it\u2019s live music, we\u2019re all human and that\u2019s what this is about, this is a human experience. It\u2019s special if you\u2019re at a show where something is different and something gets fucked up, it\u2019s like a one of a kind experience and we want it to be that real authentic. It\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n

So lastly, what does the rest of 2013 have in store for Deap Vally?<\/strong>
\nJulie:<\/strong> Loads of festivals and loads of touring and I guess we\u2019ll start writing our new album.
\nLindsey:<\/strong> Hopefully learn some new tricks to put on the next album you know. I just want to really push ourselves on every album and just get better and better and I don\u2019t know, maybe you\u2019ll become a badass harmonica player.
\nWhile playing the drums\u2026
\nJulie:<\/strong> Those neck things are very unreliable when you\u2019re moving your body a lot; it just gets further and further away from your mouth.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> The Valley, California, USA<\/p>\n

Sounds like: <\/strong>Rock and Roll<\/p>\n

Band members:<\/strong> Lindsey Troy – vocals, guitar, \u00a0Julie Edwards \u2013 drums, vocals<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> <\/strong>http:\/\/www.deapvally.com
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