FASHION BLOG
5 Minutes with No Joy 19/01/2012
Montreal natives Jasamine
White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd are the blonde-on-blonde eye candy behind No
Joy. Founded in 2009, this lo-fi/dream-pop duo has casually risen to
indie-pop-royalty by touring with the likes of Best Coast and Wavves
and gracing festivals near and far. Live, No Joy is a guitar shredding
mess of blond hair, jean shorts and good noise. Their videos aren't so
bad either. They're working on their new album, like, right now, so get
acquainted. If there was a time to be proud to be a rockin' Canadian
woman, it's now.
CW: How did No Joy come to be?
JWG: Laura and I were bored and hating life and decided we wanted to start a band. Now we still hate life but we have a band.
CW: What's it like being in a girl dominated band? Girl power, boy haters?
JWG: We believe in gender equality which is why our band is 2 girls and 2 boys. All four of us love to be dominated though.
CW: Who or what or where inspires you to write music? Any role models?
JWG: Right now we are really inspired by R.L. Stine, the Heaven's Gate Cult, K-Holes, The Prodigy, 902010.
LL: Our role models are Michael Gira and Barack Obama.
CW: Word. Where does your band fit within a Canadian landscape? Any words on the Montreal music scene?
JWG: There are lots of great bands in Canada and in Montreal and we don't fit in with 99% of them.
CW: New album coming out! Tell me about it!
JWG: It might be really good but also might be really bad. We are mixing it as we speak in NYC with Sune Rose Wagner from the Raveonettes, who did our last record.
CW: What's better, touring or festivals?
JWG: Festivals! Fly ins, catering, better pay, seeing other friends bands! It's not hard to top touring, which is basically 8 hours of driving everyday only to end up in Idaho or something (no offense Idaho) and get excited that they have a Subway.
CW: Words to live by? Theme song?
LL: "Carpe Diem" and "Smell Yo Dick"
Check out No Joy here: facebook.com/nojoymusic and here: nojoy.bandcamp.com
-- Chloe Wise
naughtymess.blogspot.com
CW: How did No Joy come to be?
JWG: Laura and I were bored and hating life and decided we wanted to start a band. Now we still hate life but we have a band.
CW: What's it like being in a girl dominated band? Girl power, boy haters?
JWG: We believe in gender equality which is why our band is 2 girls and 2 boys. All four of us love to be dominated though.
CW: Who or what or where inspires you to write music? Any role models?
JWG: Right now we are really inspired by R.L. Stine, the Heaven's Gate Cult, K-Holes, The Prodigy, 902010.
LL: Our role models are Michael Gira and Barack Obama.
CW: Word. Where does your band fit within a Canadian landscape? Any words on the Montreal music scene?
JWG: There are lots of great bands in Canada and in Montreal and we don't fit in with 99% of them.
CW: New album coming out! Tell me about it!
JWG: It might be really good but also might be really bad. We are mixing it as we speak in NYC with Sune Rose Wagner from the Raveonettes, who did our last record.
CW: What's better, touring or festivals?
JWG: Festivals! Fly ins, catering, better pay, seeing other friends bands! It's not hard to top touring, which is basically 8 hours of driving everyday only to end up in Idaho or something (no offense Idaho) and get excited that they have a Subway.
CW: Words to live by? Theme song?
LL: "Carpe Diem" and "Smell Yo Dick"
Check out No Joy here: facebook.com/nojoymusic and here: nojoy.bandcamp.com
-- Chloe Wise
naughtymess.blogspot.com
