Jack Daniels On Ice with Combichrist
by Kellie : July 16th, 2006
Andy Laplegua is a busy man. In the past year alone he has released three full length albums. Icon of Coil, his most popular band in the US, did Machines Are Us, Combichrist, a noisier EBM project, did The Joy of Guns, and Panzer AG did This Is My Battlefield, a darker, more goth/industrial album. Andy Laplegua is the frontman of Icon of Coil, but Combichrist, and Panzer AG are his solo projects.
He has produced a track for Apoptygma Berzerk, and done numerous remixes for bands such as VNV nation, Funker Vogt, Apoptygma Berzerk, Hocico, De/Vision, Mesh, and just about any other electro project you can think of.
I caught up with him after a Combichrist show at Das Bunker in Los Angeles. He was still covered in blood from a photo shoot with Amelia and Forrest earlier in the day. Heres how it went.
Kellie: Great show. Nice fake blood by the way.
Andy: [laughs] Thanks.
You usually wear latex on stage. Are you into the fetish scene, or just the fashion?
I’m not so much into the fashion itself, I love the look and feel of it. I am very much into the fetish scene. I love rubber.
What other fashion do you like to wear?
House of Harlot, Skintwo, Marquis, Cyberdog, DSL, Lipservice. And anything else I see that I like.
What are you drinking?
Jack Daniels.
Straight?
On ice.
I see you have a Johnny Cash tattoo.
I got this tattoo by a great artist named Deacon at Holy Mother Tattoo in Atlanta, Georgia. He actually did this whole half sleeve. It’s a tribute to Johnny Cash, when he died. He is one of the most important artists to me, the whole reason to do music. The way he was a story teller, a great inspiration to all artists. Always …
