The Interview Show with Dune Rats (podcast edition) #243

When I found Australian garage punk band Dune Rats (Danny, BC and Brett) behind Vancouver's Rickshaw Theatre, they were already many, many, many beers into their evening. Somehow I coaxed these charming party animals from their beers towards a quiet place in the alley to chat. The Rickshaw is located in the heart of Vancouver's downtown lower east side and that evening the alley was completely littered with used needles. When we started the interview a woman was standing halfway up the alley beside a dumpster, facing the wall and eerily dancing. After we started chatting, a pigeon touched down on the dumpster beside her and she suddenly came alive, capturing the bird. Why am I telling you this? She becomes a recurring feature in our chat and a special guest. Dune Rats were in Canada touring their latest record, The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit. The record's title was inspired by words from Courtney Taylor-Taylor (from Dandy Warhols) and the record was produced by Zac Carper (from American punk band FIDLAR)--so naturally the Dune Rats wanted to talk about Courtney's allegedly "large cock" (as well as the sizes of Dune Rats' own dicks) and the time their producer Zac made them buy dresses at a thrift shop to wear while performing. This interview is one of the more crazy, chaotic and fun ones I've done this year. Listen! Warning: this interview does contain a lot of drunk and very course language. To give you an idea, I probably won't do a radio edit of this chat because it would be mostly bleeps. Tracks played on the podcast edition... 1) Dune Rats, The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit (2017) "Scott Green" 2) Dune Rats, The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit (2017) "Bullshit" 3) The Dandy Warhols, Welcome to the Monkey House (2003) "We Used to Be Friends" (background/partial) 4) Dune Rats, The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit (2017) "Braindead" 5) Dune Rats, Dune Rats (2014) "When You're Around" 6) Dune Rats, Dune Rats (2014) "Funny Guy" 7) DZ Deathrays, Brutal Tapes (2011) "The Party (House Party Version)" (background/partial) 8) FIDLAR, FIDLAR (2013) "No Waves" (background/partial) 9) Dune Rats, The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit (2017) "6 Pack" NO songs CANCON