He bit me once while Singing in the throat

The room of musicians is regarded as wicked Kreativort. This should not be at the Zurich Rockabilly band "The Hillbilly Moon Explosion" differently, so the adoption. Finally, fill in with their rhythms of Boogie, Rock and Country, and the erotic style of singing for 20 years and halls around the world. Oliver Baroni, Bassist and co-founder of the Band, which destroys the Illusion in the first minutes of the meeting, although you can take it to him and his English accent is hardly evil. On the Skateboard, the 48-Year-old's face roars and leads down to the basement room of a co-operative in Zürich-Wiedikon. 20 square meters of carpet, pleasant air, bright light, a drum, a wall of neatly strung (Bass-)guitars and amplifiers. Only in a corner of a display case with alcohol, otherwise hardly Rock ’n’ Roll.

An exercise room is wicked.
Oliver Baroni: We are just barely there.

Really?
Baroni A practice room to see how the Band works. The tidier it is, the more often the musicians on Tour. In addition, we are extremely lazy.

Nine albums, and lazy?
Baroni We are too lazy to practice together. Before a tour, we are maybe five times here. There we were interviewed by the way, still no one here.

singer Emanuela Hutter and wife of the first hour sitting meanwhile on the amplifier. The 53-Year-old plucks at the guitar strings, in between, you look up with your typical innocent-lascivious glance. You want to bring prior to the interview, the photo shoot behind. Baroni is behind the Bass. After that, the studied music ethnologist and today's online journalist and the former teacher on the Sofa.

The Hillbilly Moon Explosion is a tongue Twister.
Baroni , The Name is actually much too long and complicated...
Emanuela Hutter: ... so it is written on festival posters small, even if we are the headliners. It originated from the name of our previous Bands: Hillbilly headhunters of Oliver and MD Moon from me.
Baroni With the name we wanted to benefit from the good Liveruf of the two Bands. We were also able to.

they Thought at the time that the Band would have in 20 years?
Hutter I started the project, moderate thought, after a year or two, I will go back to doing solo stuff. But it is a piece of went to the next musical level.
Baroni I forgot about That. The idea was, in fact, each panel in a different occupation. I came from a teen band, and was accustomed to such apart after a few years. I just wanted to make more of my music, but with a singer, who comes from the Rock ’n’ Roll. Emanuela, I knew of a joint tour of Spain, so it came to cooperation.

The works.
Hutter , After half a year, we had so many requests that we can make a tour of Germany. Because I had just become a mother, we went three years later, played already at big Festivals. Fans are dangers for our concerts is 700 km far.
Baroni at that Time there were in the whole Rockabilly/Psychobilly corner, hardly a Band with a front woman.
Hutter and the women there were, were rather conservative in the 50s style. At some Festivals, I was the first woman on the stage, was asked whether or not I need to get my own wardrobe. I heard often: Finally a woman makes that kind of music and not so cliché terms.
Baroni , Though: You're the trophy wife. Your photo has more than one of me, and the double bass.

"at some point, the idea was to create the most impossible Rockabilly duet of all time was there."

How much of the basic idea remained the same over the years?
Baroni The experiment for each new plate. A plate, we have taken two with the Locals in America, which was the basic concept. Since we have switched ten years ago to a French Label, we play all the Songs as a Band, a (note. d. Red.: with guitarist Duncan James and Sylvain Petite) .
Hutter for A long time, we have made, for example, more loungy Sound. But since we have been missing on stage, the Hard.
Baroni As a bass player you want to go sometimes just to the Board.
Hutter You did not trust us in the beginning, to be able to hard Experienced live to implement. But we can do that.

you Mean, you prefer to be on the stage than in the Studio?
Baroni Yes, and no. On the stage it feels like Soul Clashing. We are privileged already. It is the most immediate Form of artistic Feedback. But Importing is Fun to use, especially if the Basics fit. Then a bit of Riffs on it according to the Motto: Let's go crazy.

Baroni goes to the Cabinet and pours himself a Whiskey.

Baroni anyone else Want one?

no, thank you. But you are wicked a little bit.
Baroni A little bit.

your Band is known around the world, you come back from a tour of the United States. Why does your music abroad is better than in Switzerland?
Hutter is here already, and the audience is great. We have played only rarely in Switzerland.

Why?
Hutter We had the Booking in France, therefore, more requests came from abroad. Now it will hopefully be a little different, because we in Switzerland have also a Promoter. Compared with many Swiss Bands, we go the reversed way.

what is the reaction of the American public?
Hutter you don't like it enormously, as I sing, just because I come from the Blues or Gospel.
Baroni you listen to the voice.
Hutter The Exotic appeals to you. Often I have heard, that I was authentic and my singing touch you. That makes me happy and shows me that it was worth it to make the music I want. I have omitted a lot of things.

For example?
Hutter time for me. I'm not on Tour, I'm there for the family.

With the duet "My Love for Evermore" on the side of Psychobilly-legend Sparky Philips, you have landed in 2011, a Klickhit. How did it come about?
Baroni Sparky was my Teenage Idol. At some point, the idea was to create the most impossible Rockabilly duet of all time was there. The Nice thing was that he knew us already.
Hutter Sparky was a total Fan of my love songs. So we asked him.

He is considered to be rather unpredictable. What is it like to sing with him?
Hutter We like each other, complement each other. But he is impulsive. Once he has bitten me at a concert in the neck. And he needs care.

The means?
Hutter I had to accompany him for the socks purchase.
Baroni He may miss the plane or the hotel room flooding. Musically, he is a professional.

your latest record you have played with Sparky. Why?
Baroni Since this Demand was more for the Fans of Emanuela and Sparky. You can feel the bond between the two of you, some have tattooed the lyrics of the duet. However, it has become the garagigste Album.

How much Zurich is still in your Band?
Baroni I have always made Zurich music. My first band room was in the GZ Riesbach. Just a Song about Zurich is still missing.
Hutter a Lot, because I live here. Although: The only Hillbilly from the four of us I am. A country Bumpkin, in Thurgau Büezerkreisen grew up.

Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Sa, 27.4., 21 PM, Escherwyss, Hardstrasse 305.

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Created: 25.04.2019, 20:38 PM