Hardworking local punk rockers The Angel Sluts will celebrate the release of their new E.P., Suesie Was a Nihilist, this Saturday night at Murphy’s. The record is being distributed by local independent label Fat Sandwich.
We’ve got a story on the band in this week’s Flyer, but The Angel Sluts frontman Harry Koniditsiotis had much more to say than we could fit in the paper. Here are a few select outtakes from our conversation:
On developing an interest in music:
“I come from somewhat of a musical family. I had plenty of relatives who were classically trained. My great grand mother Sarah Sheinart Yavis founded the first all women’s orchestra in America in the late 1800s. I always joke that she was the first “riot grrrl.” My brother and I grew up playing piano and horns but when I turned 15 I wanted to play drums in a rock band. My folks didn’t want that racket so I opted for a bass guitar. All my friend’s bands needed bass players so I figured that was the fastest way to get into a band. I think my mom has a video tape of us playing a couple of high school fairs. I played my first bar at 16 – Muddy Waters’ in New Orleans. I thought it was awesome. Like a lot of kids we couldn’t really play our instruments very well or other people’s songs because we sucked. It was easier to write our own songs. So I just started writing.”
