MD: Late one night in the 80’s I was walking through the dark forest in upstate New York, I heard a voice, mysterious, dark, evil, beautiful and ethereal (I followed the voice but never found anyone). Green and Black visions filled my soul, entwining the Dark & Light - the essence of the Plague was born.

Back on the lower eastside of NYC (which was very slummy at that time) while living with Christian- my lover and guitar player- we started writing songs on a 4 track …Bones the bass player just appeared - he just happened, he was meant to be. Bones was brilliant, powerful and his darkness filled the bottom end of Plague..

DR: What was the Plague about to you? How do you feel about that material now?

MD: The Plague was my soul, my NYC family - the drummers came and went - but the 3 of us had a deep level, past life connection..

I still love the songs. The Plague songs are full of visions of pain, passion, pleasure, and longing for immortality with "Vampyre" and "Never Die". Songs of power, life, death, sex, and magic, as in "Empress", "Suicide Queen", and "Murder".

MD: I lived in the club scene. Almost every night our black clad tribe of strangers and friends, children of the night, went out. We lived, played and performed at Danceteria, Limelight, Cat club, Pyramid, CB’s etc..I heard music music music, I was immersed in music — its all a blur now — I was weaned on everything from Bauhaus to the Cure to Siouxsie to the Ramones, to David Bowie to Violet Femmes to the Dead Kennedy’s to Ministry to… Did the music influence me? Yes, It was my life.

MD: Yes we played on the same bill as Of A Mesh, and also Nausea, Ludachrist, False Prophets [a great NYC punk band], Farenheight 451… White Zombie (with Rob Zombie) where around too, as well as many other great bands…

MD: The shows where wild and intense. The elaborateness of the stage show came from the pounding rhythms, mixed with luscious melodies. The show was very visual with our tattoos, our blood and pain, our being half naked with torn leather and vinyl…this was the stage show..our lives where the stage show.

Many other songs where never recorded. We never recorded "Having Fun In Hell". Or "Mantis" .. But some of the songs on my latest album where originally conceived during the Plague time, such as "Neptune" and "Sacred Life". Also "So Beautiful So Deadly" is made of samples from the Plague song "Suicide Queen" from when we did a show at CBGB’s. You can hear it at http://www.mp3.com/margotday

MD: The Wildest thing? The Plague’s very first show. In a abandoned building amongst hundreds of punks and skins, we opened for the Cro-mags and the Bad Brains with the song Food For Vultures. I remember the anarchy, the rush, the power, the freedom of releasing that first song for the first time.

MD: Humans have evolved, music is evolving, I am evolving from playing my flute and meditating and listening to every sound without amplification, to The Plague as loud and powerful as rock can be, to electronic music using all of the sounds and samples of the universe, this is evolution..

And yes I did exactly what I wanted to do, and now I am doing exactly what I want to do, only now I have the technology at my home to create what I hear in the collective consciousness and the sounds that are haunting my mind come alive as I truly hear them, for now, with the new technology, there is more freedom.

What was your work with Nick Zedd (the NY independent filmmaker, Director of one of my favorites, "They Eat Scum"). What did you do with London May (of Samhain)?

MD: Ahh, Nick Zedd, I was in-love with him. We lived together for a few months. I think I may have broken his heart (if such a thing is possible). What an experience he was. Nick Zedd was pre-Plague and a big influence on my life. I had just returned to NYC and Nick showed me the underground world he lived in, full of dust and slime and rebellion, we lived on nuts and passion. He kissed me, bit my throat, and his fingers squeezed my soul - The Plague song Vampyre was inspired in part by Nick.

I helped shoot one of Nicks films-and Nick’s first time in Drag was in my dress. Nick introduced me to Richard Kern and Jim Thirwell (NIN). Richard did a film of Christian(The Plague Guitar player) strangling me with blood squirting everywhere, for the stage back drop of Jim Thirwell’s live show. Nick was a very memorable part of my life.

London May was one of the drummers that played with us for a short while.

DR: You’ve embarked on a successful solo career. What happened to the other guys from the Plague?

MD: Christian disappeared; Bones has gone on to play in various different groups, such as Missing Foundation and Disassociates.

DR: What are your musical plans for the future?

MD: Of course more live shows. I’ve done a lot of touring in the last few years. From NYC to Texas to California. I am available to play in any large festivals, put the word out or email me at margotday@yahoo.com Also I am recording new music and working on several music video’s. I am my own web mistress and will be updating my website with lots of new photo’s and a few video’s soon. Visit http://www.margotday.com

DR: One last question - on the Plague LP, you thanked Joe Truck. Is that the tattoo artist? I have a tattoo by Joe Truck!

MD: Yes Joe Truck is the Tattoo artist. He played in a band called the Braineaters that was on the same bills with us often. Joe Truck was a good friend and strong supporter of The Plague. I have lost contact with him..so if anyone can reach him please ask him to email me.

And I invite everyone to visit my website, see the photo’s, buy CD’s, hear The Plague, or listen to my new music http://www.margotday.com