By Andrew Bansal
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Blackwitch Pudding have been propagating their fuzzed out cosmic party doom wizardry on earth for the past 600 years, and recently completed a successful ‘Magic Up Your Butt’ US headline tour. The tour included a Los Angeles stop at the Five Star Bar on February 6th, and a few hours before they took the stage and cast their spells on the fortunate ones in attendance, I sat down with guitarist/vocalist Space Wizard and drummer/vocalist Wizard Wizard to discuss the tour, the wizardry, the live rituals, the parties and their latest album ‘Covered In Pudding – Volume 1’. Enjoy the conversation below.
It’s good to have you guys here! You’ve been carrying this traveling wizard doom party of yours around America for the past 3-4 weeks. How’s everything been going?
Space Wizard: Awesome, fantastic! You know, when you’re out on a cosmic voyage, and you think to yourself, “I can only kick ass”, you’re probably just going to kick ass! That’s the idea, right?
Wizard Wizard: Yeah! Shredding till we can’t shred anymore.
So, how did you become wizards, and not any other superhuman incarnation?
WW: Mainly because we went to wizard school and we have magical powers.
SW: You can’t get a day job when you’re just a boozed up party wizard. If you drink too many potions, you get fired!
WW: You really don’t have any other choice than to be a wizard if the only things you do are cast spells and fart magical dust. You can’t be a plumber if you do that.
SW: For instance, one of Wizard Wizard’s major badassery skills is that, we don’t have a fog machine. He just billows giant smokey farts out of his bungus. Our fog machine is the wizard’s butthole, and that’s pretty sweet.
It does make perfect sense. The live show that you guys have been doing looks pretty badass from the videos I’ve watched and I’m curious to see it in person tonight. Is that something that you developed over the years or has it always been like this since day one?
SW: Well, everything always continually grows. Day one was pretty badass. This is the perfect time to explain that there is a secret wizard amongst us. He hides, he lurks in the shadows. He was the smoke wizard and it was an apprenticeship, really. He needed to earn his stripes, basically, or his lasers. He needed to earn his robe. Before, he was just smoke wizard hiding in the shadows, and now he has got some extra-special wizard laser abilities.
WW: We specifically trained him in a couple of dark arts to facilitate our live show, but we’re not going to teach him how to play guitar. There are limits to what he can do.
SW: So the live show is really always going to grow and expand, because that’s the purpose of what we do, to give people a bigger, better, more badass wizard rock ‘n roll party every fucking night.
WW: The only limitations are the mortal and physical limitations of the clubs we play. The physical time constraints of 24 hours on the planet you call earth? I mean, if you’re out there in the cosmos you can party for three straight weeks for one show.
SW: Three weeks? Try ten thousand years!
WW: If you have enough space drugs, that is.
SW: Yeah dude. The babes of Mercury have plenty of fucking space drugs.
WW: The point is, we can’t do that on earth in a timely fashion in the bars we play.
SW: I thought I saw one of the babes of Mercury out here around the corner, but it was a crackhead. Definitely a crackhead.
So, where on earth have you had the best parties?
WW: Ooh! The desert is always good. Mountain parties are good too.
SW: Yeah, I think the parties on the mountains always rule, on a clear night with a full moon, under the fucking stars, extra-magical shit going down! That’s where the best parties happen.
That’s awesome, man. I wanted to talk to you about the ‘Covered In Pudding – Volume 1’ album. It’s Volume 1 and it’s pretty great, so will there be more volumes? Can we expect more?
SW: Absolutely! Wizard Wizard is kind of like the mastermind behind the songs that you see there.
WW: Basically I took upon myself to chronicle our early works, now that in this day and age we can reproduce them, record them and put them out to the masses, it’s just unfortunate that so many other artists have borrowed from our work.
SW: I mean, it’s bound to happen when you’ve been shredding for 600 years! Someone’s gonna rip you off.
WW: I think it’s pretty obvious who we have reclaimed our songs from on ‘Covered In Pudding – Volume 1’, and there are other songs out there that need reclaiming, which will be on Volume 2, 3 and fucking 10 million. It’s never going to end. There’s 600 years worth of material to cover, time permitting, as long as you humans don’t eradicate yourself from the earth.
SW: It’s cool, man. We’ve got a time machine. We’re gonna go back in time and then release like 10 million records at once. And then everyone’s brain will blow up and we’ll make sweet, sweet love to the blown up brains. We’ll do that next week, so be prepared, world!
WW: By a year ago, we’ll have a couple more albums out, if that makes any sense.
Related: Gig Review – Blackwitch Pudding Brings Party Doom Wizardry To Five Star Bar
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