![]() ![]() TTM: When you play do you feel as though you are performing? I find it easier to sing and play drums at the same time cause of the muscle memory. We don’t govern the vocals or anything, unless we feel strongly about something. Obviously rhythmically Jen and I tend to govern what is going on but that is our role in the band. I think everyone has their own leadership role within the band. Our diplomatic rule is: Always try everything. Everyone has their moment when they are feeling very strongly about an idea that they have. ![]() Stella: I think there is definitely an intuitive exchange in the band. What is the leadership component you bring as the drummer? ![]() TTM: In “Composure” and then throughout “Warpaint” the double hihat you do…it’s too good. 1969 is my favorite year, two of my favorite albums are Uncle Meat and Trout Mask Replica – both of their aesthetics are so unique, but also a lot of pop music, soul music, hip hop. Stella: Not coming from an ego driven position that we have to be the best band in the world or the biggest band in the world – it’s more like we just have to be as good as we can be and continue working towards something. TTM: What does that mean, “the right reasons”? I heard a few of their songs and thought, “This is a really cool band, I really like some of their songs and they are in it for the right reasons.” Stella: I was fan of Warpaint before I joined the band. TTM: In one of the interviews with Warpaint, they talk about how the band is happy that they get to make music that they actually would listen to, what’s that process like? Enima, Lateralus those three Tool albums. Stella: That’s how I learned to play drums, yea, actually by listening to the album Undertow by Tool. TTM: So, then when you were playing drums were you listening and playing along to it? I think that is the most important thing. I never really choose one phase, you are always learning always interested in history and chronology. I started listening to all kinds of music. I never really got into Riot Grrrl or girl bands like Bikini Kill. Stella: A lot of girls I was in bands with loved it. TTM: Was Bridegirl was an American thing or were people into it in Australia too? Never really got into girl bands just more old man punk rock. A side from listening to a lot of hard rock, I listened to a lot of Tool and Primus when I first started playing drums. Stella: Oh totally, ya, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, AJ was my favorite…. TTM: What music phases have you been through? Did you ever go through a Spice Girl phase? It’s like that, “ Oh you can’t play drums” it makes me go “Oh shit.oh shit.I want to play drums and I’m going to prove that guy wrong.” And after a while, I think its just inspiration as well, as I started playing band straight away and then I just got that bug playing live and thinking up parts. It’s like some saying don’t think of the elephant. I always had this desire to play the drums and because it was forbidden, it drove me crazy. There was always this boy drummer there and I always wanted to sit down and play on the drums cause I’d be practicing on pillows and stuff. Stella: I think for me the main kind of force of momentum was definitely that I wasn’t allowed to play drums before I was thirteen not by parents, but in primary school. TTM: When you started playing drums after you were thirteen, what made you continue? What made you want to get better? I can tell you guys, but you can’t print it. TTM: Okay, first question we are dying to ask is this, What is the band singing at the beginning of composure? ![]() Stella: Yea, I think we just need someone to come in and fumigate it. Hannah Haines (Tom Tom Magazine Photo): Need to wash everything in the van? Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint): Really? I’ve had crazier, craziest is when you’re in a van, kinda wish we were in a van right now. Kiran Gandhi (Tom Tom Magazine): This is the most demanding tour schedule, I’ve ever seen in my life. In her own words: Be inspired, don’t be intimidated. Do we really need to make an introduction at this point? This is another great interview Tom Tom has conducted with the rising star, Stella Mozgawa. ![]()
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