Shadow Project

Interview by John Begley
& Marco Boudreau

Shadow Project was:
Rozz Williams
Eva O.
Paris

Photos by Chris Boetticker
VEM: How's the Shadow Project tour going, any setbacks?
SP: great. Well, slightly, generator problems with the RV. But other than that, fine.
VEM: Do you plan to go to Europe after the States?
SP: Probably in the Fall. Amsterdam, Germany, Holland, UK, Belgium, Paris.
VEM: How do you write your music?
EVA: Rozz & I both do it differently. Music first generally. I rarely write music for words.
PARIS: I just write on the keyboards, sometimes on bass.
VEM: How is the EXP project going?
PARIS: It will be as soon as we finish our third album.
VEM: Rozz-Howabout your spoken word material? Any more or was that a one time thing?
ROZZ: I don't know. I didn't want to do it cause I've done some spoken word things live and Ijust felt real uncomfortable with it. After I did it, it was allright...maybe.
VEM: Do you think that Christ was/is a real person or a fabrication that has become out of control?
ROZZ: Yes, I think he' true.
EVA: Everyone has their own idea of who Christ is. I believe he's a person; a very important person, the son of God.
VEM: Do you think that the government should outlaw the relocation of cemeteries for building purposes?
EVA: Yes.
PARIS: Yes.
ROZZ: No, I don't care. Once they're dead they're dead. I don't care where my body's put once I'm dead.
EVA: That's like saying I shouldn't buy a house because they can come & take my house. People buy that land. It's their land.		 VEM: I found out that you need a real estate liscense for that.
EVA: Yeah, you have to buy that land. And just because it's a small piece they disregard it.
ROZZ: I think some places are more sacred. Like Indian Burial Grounds are more important than just any graveyard. It's like a wastedump, they're already piling up body upon body upon body. It's like so what, they're just rotting.
CHRISTIAN: Leave 'em open!
  EVA: Yeah well my thing is that it has nothing to do with dead bodies, it's the fact that you're buying something and they're taking it away from you.
ROZZ: Oh yeah, but you're dead.
VEM: How about epitaphs-does anyone want one?
ROZZ: No, I'd rather let someone make one up.I don't have anything to say about myself, really. People can decide that for themselves. I prefer just to be dumped in the ocean.
PARIS: I myself would just like to be eaten, by someone that Ilove.
VEM: What are your thoughts about Life & Death and how they entertwine?
Rozz and Eva entertwine beautifully with the music at New York

EVA: Life & Death are beautiful things, they go hand in hand. I don't think that people die if they don't want to. I mean your body dies-I don't believe people die. Life is beautiful, live it strong and there is no such thing as...death.

 

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