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Troy Petrey, Irish Sea, 2008 10 03, page 3 ibth - Does the Icarus Line vibe ever come back during the Jubilee concerts - given that back then you were playing with Aaron and you and him are in the same band too nowadays ? Troy - Oh, when I look over to Aaron and he's moving about, I do get that funny little feeling.. ibth - The Manchester show was fairly radical in that regard, no ? That was the one with all the gear dying on you.. Troy - Manchester.. oh yeah.. that was kind of an Icarus Line experience.. 
ibth - ..with the frustration and the rage. Was that feeling good or bad ? Troy - ..erm it's feeling good on stage, once you start playing, but beforehand it's not really good. It's good because you let it out, cause you're pissed - and you end up playing good. Just raw energy at it's finest I guess. Anger. ibth - So you would say that "playing good" is "raw energy at its finest" - that would be your definition ? Troy - Yeah, erm.. sometimes there's just more energy to some shows. I think when you're frustrated and had a rough day, then, at least for me, while playing drums, that comes out. Same for Aaron, cause he plays with so much motion. Or Mike and Jeff.. however he's playing - whatever we're doing, we're all doing our thing. And our day up until that point is kinda reflected in those 45 minutes on stage. Cause if we have a relaxing day and we sleep all day in a hotel and we go to the club it's just like "Oh, let's play the songs, we're rested !" You know, that's good but, if you had shit happening to you and you're rushing around, blood pressure's high and it looks like you're not gonna make it and the show's gonna get cancelled. And last minute you get in there, you're racing, the energy's just higher.. you're in the red a little bit. Things can go wrong and they do go wrong and that just calls for a reation. It's your X-factor, I guess.. ibth - What would you say, in that line, was the best show of the tour so far ? Troy - The best show ? Er, maybe Dublin I think ? ibth - Cause a lot of stuff went wrong before the gig and you were pissed off? But.. everything went fine that day.. i think Troy - Did anything go wrong that day ? ibth - During the show ? No, not at all.. And the day before.. don't know.. can't remember that day anymore.. Troy - I can't remember that day either.. (Troy laughs) it's all a blur. I just know that day all of us were finally happy for once. It just felt like a good energy, the crowd was really into it, there was a perfect stage. There was something about that show.. that would be the one I'd bet on. 
ibth - I think it was a real good one, too. In contrast what would you say was the worst show then ? Or really bad memory.. Troy - Worst show, oh man.. several of these shows were really bad.. ibth - Well, the outstandingly bad one then.. Troy - Let me think.. oh god.. I literally don't remember. You tell me, you've seen them all.. See, the thing is, for me I can only tell it subjectively. But, no I really can't remember what show was the worst.. ibth - In those Jubilee songs, the bass guitar, quite often, is not only part of the rhythm section but actually carries the melody line as well. And so, especially with the strong rhythm guitar.. Troy - Like in Mannequin ? ibth - Yeah, exactly, that you would lock in the drums rhythm sometimes with the bass, sometimes with the rhythm guitar ? Troy - As far as that song goes.. it's hard to say. I just try to keep things as steady as I can and everyone else just kinda falls in line. Cause the bass is very busy doing something else and not following the drums. I mean in a sense it is, I mean it's on the beat alright.. ibth - But it's not classic rhythm section playing either.. Troy - On the other hand you've got songs like.."Make You Crumble" is the perfect example, where you've got the drum rhythm and the bass comes in - they're together and it's like one thing, a unit, with the kick drum.. And at times the guitar is playing strong rhythm parts, obviously..I think Jubilee does that, it's always changing, cause it's not a one-dimensional band. One minute we're doing "Someone's Coming", the next "The Fool On The Pill". It's such different songs.. ibth - It's a huge spectrum.. Troy - Yeah, it's such a broad sprectrum - which is good ! So it's hard to put your finger on one thing or principle. There are so many different things.. ibth - You guys played an all acoustic set in Sheffield, where it was only Mike, Aaron and you as a threepiece, with both Mike and Aaron playing acoustic guitars or minimally amplified guitars. How did you deal the drumming there - especially since usually you "pound soo hard" ? Troy - I don't know how it turned out, what it sounded like. I put towels over the snare and the floor tom to muffle the sound. I don't know how it turned out, I'm not sure, if it was good or bad. I had fun playing though. ibth - It was sounding awesome from where we were.. Troy - A lot of people were saying that it sounded cool.. I just didn't know, if it was [the other guys wanted]. We didn't really have time to adjust and think that whole thing out. I was kinda on the last minute "We'd better figure something out [about the drum sound]". I think that maybe we shouldn't even have used drums, maybe just a tambourine. It's funny cause before.. we practised basically the whole set a few times in the dressing room. Travis has some video of it - and it's basically just all tambourine and a drumstick hitting the couch. And it sounded really cool. And then we get on stage and instead it's like cymbals, snares.. and maybe that was a bit much, I think. ibth - I don't think the drums were overwhelming that day in any sort of way. I thought it was blending in very well. Troy - Yeah, I thought so, too. For me - I thought it was a good show. I had fun doing it. But some people weren't pleased.. ibth - Can't please 'em all.. Troy - Yeah, fuck 'em.. ibth - When you're on stage, you're probably the only guy in the band who's always facing the crowd. Just because everybody else is always moving around. Troy - Or I'm facing my snare, most of the time.. I do. ibth - But whenever you look over the snare.. what sort of crowds do you guys get ? What does a Jubilee crowd look like ? Is it all Nine Inch Nails crowds ? Is it Queens [of the Stone Age] people ? Is it a mix.. is it none of them ? Troy - ..I've seen a lot of empty space actually, so.. I don't know, yeah you see NIN fans, you see regular people, you see older people, you see younger people. ibth - So there's no general profile.. Troy - Yeah, right. When I was in the Icarus Line f.e. it was just a bunch of kids losing their minds, freakin out. Now it's really mixed. ibth - Do you regret the times and that kinda crowd that was "losing it's mind" like back in the day ? Would you wish for that to be around again ? Troy - Nah 's still kids who do freak out. In Dublin for example there were two kids in the front row who were headbanging the whole time. ibth - Yeah, I remember them, they were just next to me. Troy - So yeah, there are some kids who get it, who get into it. ibth - Would you say in general the crowd "goes off" ? Or is it a fairly sedate crowd ? Mellow ? Troy - I think it's kinda sedate a little bit. For the most part. But you know, we're new. No one knows really knows yet. So maybe that's why they're not really going off.. Yeah, we feel like animals in a zoo sometimes. Cause we are all going off on stage, but everybody's just looking.. it's strange. ibth - Is that an unpleasant feeling ? Troy - It's awkward, I think. I mean, I feel like, I mean we all feel strange. ibth - Have you guys talked about that among yourselves ? Troy - Oh, yeah. It's definitely weird. Cause you're pretty much giving yourself, opening yourself up to something, that, you know..doesn't react. I mean in everyday life I'm just a normal guy. But on stage - my pants can come off, my shirt can come off, my hair's flying around, I'm spitting, sweating, I'm freakin', I'm just.. a whole other part of me comes out. And you're gonna do that in front of people whom you don't know, whom you've never met before. And there can be like 10 people or one person, or fifty or 300 people - and they're all just staring at you. So it's like taking a shit in public or something, sometimes.. I don't know how to describe it.. it's strange, it's weird. ; "Spitting, sweating, freaking.. at The Roadmender, Northampton") (click for full image) ibth - It probably makes it feel less weird for oneself if what one's doing is reflected in some way by the audience. Because probably you don't feel as alone.. Troy - Yeah, but you know, when I see kids losing their minds like that, i think like "whoa, the energy !". You feed of it, it's like it's giving.. I'm getting something back, you know. So it helps. But when people are just standing there staring, sometimes I don't care, sometimes I just wanna.. go even more crazy. I don't care what people think.. ibth - Did you see any sort of differences in reaction between one part of Great Britain/Ireland to the other ? I mean you've been all over the place this time.. you were in England, in Sotland, in Wales , you were in Ireland and in Northern Ireland, basically everywhere. Do you see different vibes in regard to the areas ? Troy - Different vibes ? Erm, yeah, maybe.. kind of. I couldn't tell you from which part of the country to which the vibe varied, but there's definitely parts of the country that are more into it than others.. Like when we played Cork.. ibth - Yeah.. there was only half a dozen people in a huge, huge theatre, so that at some point 90% of the audience was sittingon stage. But in another way it was kind of cool. Troy - Yeah, and that was kinda retarded. ibth - We might take it personal, given that we made up big parts of the audience that day.. Troy - No ! I don't mean the crowd, or the audience was retarded.. but the whole situation. Like us showing up and then just no one being there. The loading-in situation was eight flights of stairs and a crane pulling our gear up, like my bass drum being chained up outside the building in a box, going up.. and being pulled in and it's freezing and then going up even more stairs. And then to play in front of, you know.. ibth - But you had an elevator to load out, no ? Troy - No, it wasn't an elevator, it was a freight.. it was a crane, that then pulled out, it was really bizarre. |
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Jubilee (ju.bi.lee), n. : 1. A rock'n'roll band from L.A., Ca., currently composed of Aaron North (vocals, guitar), Tony Bevilacqua (guitar, vocals), Jenni Tarma (bass), Troy Petrey (drums.)2. Jubilation; rejoicing. 3. A season or an occasion of joyful celebration. 4.a. A specially celebrated anniversary. b. The celebration of such an anniversary. |
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