Interview: Band of the Week - Dollar Sent - Page 2

Even though this is about the forth or fifth line up of Dollar-Sent, I think this is finally the right line up. I couldn't imagine having anyone else in the band these days and find it odd when I think back to how it was with the other guys.

From where did the name of the band come? Does it mean anything special?

To be honest with you the name doesn't really mean anything.

When the band first formed we had been knocking about, jamming, putting a few tunes together and playing with ideas when we got offered our first show. See, I know a guy who had been doing a lot of promotion around town and he had put on my last band a few times.

He offered us the show, we said yes.  When he asked what the band was called, Dollar Sent was the first thing that came into my head. I thought it sounded a bit cocky. I had been thinking about calling us Gun Nut, as in "friends of the gun man claim he was a real 'gun nut'", but when you write it down or say it quickly it sounds like an STD.

So that one was quickly forgotten.

I have been know to come out with all sorts of things about the name being a statement of intent, that we're here for the money and the kick; that it states that we're not here to change the world; Or even that the name, combined with the iron cross on our artwork, is a statement on the current foreign policy of the western powers. To be fair I'm normally drunk when that comes up and having a laugh.

It’s utter bollocks. The truth is the name doesn't mean anything, but if people want to attach a meaning to it then they are more than welcome.

Your music sounds like it might be the lovechild of a Motorhead album that got lucky with maybe a Ramones or Sex Pistols album. Then again… while I can hear all of that in your music, you guys definitely have your own sound. What kind of music did you guys grow up listening to?

Musically we come from all over the place. I will listen to everything from The Sisters Of Mercy, Motorhead, Isis, Skinny Puppy, and Fields of the Nephilim, to John Lee Hooker. All sorts of stuff, really.

As a band we have a massive range of music we listen to. Sparky is into a lot of very heavy stuff like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide, proper 'evy metal, y’know. Loz is into a lot of stonery stuff at the moment. In fact, so am I — such as Kyuss, and that sort of thing.

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