Component parts of my imaginary persona

Here’s a snippet from a Bust interview I re-read this weekend with Peaches

Bust: Why did you create the Peaches persona?
Peaches: I guess I just felt like something was missing from music, or from me.

B: I just put all the elements in music that I like together. I like when Kathleen Hanna would say, “Suck my left one!” and you’re like, “Yeah, such my left one!” Then one day it seemed people didn’t say that anymore.

I tried to answer this question at lunchtime in Food for Thought with the hope of spurring me on to greater musical heights. This is what you get when you put all the elements in music that I like together.

Sleater-Kinney’s singing
Sleater-Kinney’s songs
Sleater-Kinney’s guitar interplay
Sleater-Kinney’s drumming (Meg White too, I wish everyone would drum like a girl!)
Sleater-Kinney’s refusal to use a traditional band set up (ditto White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gossip)
The raw anger of Hole
The Manics ambition and desperation to be icons (back in the day)
Gossip’s ability to bond with their audience and be super-subversive while being really fun (I might just mean Beth here but I’m not saying because I hate it when people talk about the Gossip like only her). Special mention to Le Tigre for the outfits and projections here.
PJ Harvey and Patti Smith’s determined ploughing of their own paths (for Patti also the use of the clarinet in rock)


So what can I conclude?
The music I want to replicate is not necessarily the music I spend most time listening to.
I admire longevity.
I don’t want to make dance music. I want to kiss Jesse F Keeler not be like him.
I like Sleater-Kinney more than anything.