I was relating a lot to fairytales, escpecially Hans Christian Anderson, which are very dark, moralistic. I always remember the original "The Little Mermaid" in which she is granted to go ashore by the Sea-witch for the cost of her voice and in the end is turned into sea foam. In the past I was writing from a very nostaligic point of view but that has shifted more into the present where it is all about now, so fuck nostalgia.

Deathrock.com: Tell us in a nutshell the evolution of The Vanishing, from formation to the present. What inspired the name?

Jessie: Brian and I have been playing together for 5 years now, the first band we were in was the KNIVES, we started The Vanishing with Sadie playing keyboards but she left to do her garage group The Husbands so Billy joined. Him and Brian have been playing music together since they were kids, so it is very deep. We are like family. The name THE VANISHING was really the least offensive thing we could think of. When I first said it I felt as though I was vanishing from poverty, vanishing from fear, from everything that I hated, into the nothingness which is ecstatic.