No Doves Fly Here: The Interviews (so far)

You all know No Doves is a twice-per-month event night where we play deathrock, postpunk, and gothic rock (for free). We all love old school positive punk, anarcho/peace-punk, and goth-punk, and we explore the overlaps between these niches in our playlists. We've so far put out one CD-R sampler and another one is coming up; our two stipulations when doing this is that we put only currently-extant bands on the CD-R, and we get their permission to do so. They're not mix CDs.

But you may not know that we also interview bands exclusively for this website, part of our building relationships with bands that we play at our event nights. These are some of the interviews we've done so far. More are on the way.


1. Interview with California dark punk band CIRIL.

2. Interview with LA deathrock band CHRIST VS WARHOL.

3. Interview with the singer of 80s UK goth-punk band PART 1.

4. Interview with LA deathrock band FANGS ON FUR.

5. Interview with Portland goth-punk band DEATHCHARGE.

6. Interview with deathrock DJs Johnny Bubonic (of Funeral Drive) and Ely Bat/Malediction (of 1313, deathrock Disko, etc.)

Interview with DJ Johnny Bubonic

Except for John Peel, DJs have had close to zero influence on the sort of music I like. Except for DJ Johnny Bubonic, that is, who DJ'd for several years the weekly(!) deathrock night in Dallas, Texas, that was Funeral Drive. This was at Spiderbabies (RIP), a uniquely deathrock-centric venue that lasted about 4 years in Deep Ellum. Bubonic and company provided a strategic response to the deluge of electronic-centered music that eventually won the war in Big D by way of the main establishment club in Dallas, The Church (Lizard Lounge), which mostly shoved aside deathrock and postpunk to play EBM, IDM, and techno-flavored "goth," a trend that continues to this day. Bubonic's posts (setlists and assorted rants) on deathrock.com and elsewhere had a big influence on my own ideas about music, and introduced me to many great bands that remain favorites to this day.

But I'll let him speak for himself. After the interview is a sample playlist from Funeral Drive from February, 2002, as well as a piece Bubonic wrote for Starvox. (Interviewed by Oliver in November, 2011.)