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🌟NEOGLAMROCK PRESENTS: « MR MCQUEEN INTERVIEW WITH @_TOKYOLUCKYHOLE_ »

As a new, 100% glamrock, sparkling and bleeding (literally!) of creative madness, music video was recently released by a fab trio of Tokyo Lucky Hole, we decided to get to know the artists’ master plan behind the work⚡️ If you have not seen “Mr. McQueen” yet, be prepared to re-watch it at least hundred of times, digging every little detail about it...;) Big thanks to @clayfuller for kindly answering the questions☄️

=Hello, Darlings! Congratulations on your debut music video "Mr. McQueen" - completely mind-blowing. Watched it at least fifty times, hehe...

For those who have not yet seen it, could you describe it in two words?

⭐️:Thank you very much. Put simply, it can be categorized as an Acid Western short film with lots of glitter and ultraviolence.

=And what about the characters? Extremely glam, would love to see their backstories in the future!

⭐️:It was so much fun playing characters for the film. We transformed into a gang of delinquent disco cowboys. I played the nonchalant Clint Eastwood-like leader of the pack. Ben played the goofball and Russell played the maniac. The music video depicts the mischief that these bandits get themselves into.

=The clothes were amazing. Did it take long to make the looks? Are there secret glamrock designers working for you?

⭐️:Thank you. Most of the clothes came from mine and my brother’s closets. We wanted extreme clothing that nobody in their right mind would normally wear in their everyday life. The articles were customized by our wardrobe stylist Sadie Drucker (secret glam rock designer) who brilliantly made our clothes even more unique and bizarre.

=I felt the music-video itself had a kind of Tarantino surreal vibe. Who inspired you for "Mr. McQueen"?

⭐️:Inspiration for the music video came from classic spaghetti western films as well as Japanese culture. However, the intro to the song was an idea that came to me when I was in middle school after watching Pulp Fiction for the first time. I used to sing in faux-Spanish over the chord progression, as if serenading a lover, at our bassist Russell's house to make him laugh. So I think it would be accurate to say that I’ve been inspired by the cinematic music in Tarantino films.

=What was your favourite scene while filming?

⭐️:The wildest night was filming in a bar which was turned into a drag queen brothel. We arrived to film at 3 am after the bar closed. Our friend, who happened to be the bartender, was pouring us real drinks and getting the band very drunk. Our drummer Ben actually fell off of his stool, and luckily it was captured on camera and can be seen in the video.

=If you were to continue the adventures of the glammy criminals, what would they be?

⭐️: According to our writer/director, if the music video continued, we’d see the band battle a Texas Chainsaw Massacre serial killer and eventually become surrounded by the police at a desolate 7-11 in Tokyo.

=Last but not least... Who is the MR MCQUEEN?!.. I hope the FBI is not reading this.............

⭐️: In the song’s narrative, Mr. McQueen is a fictitious antihero who has a reputation as a real ladykiller. He was inspired by Steve McQueen and was dreamt up by my brother & music video director Blaine Fuller.

=Thank you so much for spending time with us!!! Really looking forward to your new acid hits, see you soon!

⭐️: Thank you! We’re announcing new music soon on our website at tokyoluckyhole.net

Even though it was hard for glamrock to conquer the country (or, at least, get a certificate to sell legal vinyls in Soviet Union), it didn’t mean the trend didn’t influenced young musicians of the state. It would be useless to try to duplicate the style of clothes from the West, wear long hair and feel proud about that fact: your music would be soon banned. However, you could try to write in taste of your idols.

If you look at the pictures, you will see several covers of Marc Bolan’s works that were allowed in USSR.

It was a big surprise to me because only few European/American songs would go through censor, especially something as flamboyant as T.Rex. Bands were called “ensembles” and the titles would be translated. Now you know how “Hot Love” would sound in Russian!

Probably, those exact “compositions” inspired a Soviet band called “AQUARIUM”⚡️Your humble narrator have translated their 1981 album lyrics influenced by our dear T.Rex, in hope to entertain you💎 enjoy💕

🐡AQUARIUM - “Sergei Il’ich (A Song For Marc Bolan)”🐡

“Sergei Il’ich - a workman of dream,

He wears silk - a rustling wolf;

A diamond MAZ with a wheel of flax

Drove in through a door and the spring have come.

One more September - a season for snakes;

We know our hour, it’s older than us.

A goat of pearl, some reed and vine,

We don’t remember limit, we beyond have gone. “

Sounds like “The Warlock Of Love” piece!

How to win in a political battle? How to make people believe their country is the most successful and others are 👊LOSERS👊? Censorship , my dears, censorship! [And maybe some occasional assassinations...]

The absurd paranoiac accusations made about “Western” music were so immense and satirical, it would be hard to list all of them in one post. For today, I would like to introduce you to illegal ways to spread anthems of rebellion in the communist society (life-hacks, I call it;))⚡️

❗️When best to use: 1940-1970

The best place to use: USSR

Risk-factor: arrests

The information below is essential for making a vinyl with forbidden music. Use it wisely!

💎Step One: Ask for an old radiograph at a local clinic. They’ll be happy to get rid of trash! 💎Step Two: Cut the x-ray and get it ready for the sound-recording

💎Step Three: Get a friend who wants to break the law for art and go in the street to sell the fake vinyl

💎Step Four: Be optimistic when you get into jail or a camp, make a plan for the next music selling season

Everything you read above had been tested by Ruslan Bogislovskiy, so you don’t need to worry about the results, just go ahead and see what happens!🧡❗️

...Of course, the quality of songs suffered a lot when produced in that way... but what wouldn’t people go through just to hear amazing compositions, so ruthlessly restricted? Such vinyls soon would be called “bones” and “ribs”, growing in popularity with every new generation of Soviets🎵 🎶 The process of distribution was totally secret, making the deed even more romantic and exciting💗 The “bones” gave citizens the only chance to discover and hear the talents from abroad and Russia, making the vinyls even more iconic

🗯 Last year GARAGE and Stephen Coates from The Real Tuesday Weld arranged an exhibition with great material gained during the “music on bones” research📌 Thanks to it we now have good photos of this phenomenon!

Here is the list of artists we consider to be the new wave of glamrock and want to promote. We are always looking for the talents, so more and more creators will be added soon. Glamrock bands:

Gyasi instagram / youtube

Kurt Kaarl instagram / youtube

Hammered Satin instagram / youtube