...plenty more where that came from!!!!!! 
by steve phillips
article written in august 1996
published in "sadness is in the sky magazine" issue 1
The Boredoms-interview August 1996 An interview recorded minutes after their incredible performance supporting Australia’s Regurgitator, this conversation goes some small way to unravel the confusion that is The Boredoms. A group who formed in Osaka, Japan around 10 years ago, The Boredoms are a frantic ordered/unordered mess, a car crash of broken sounds, extreme elements and pieces of expression via the most simple and complex means. As quickly as the group arrived in Australia they were on their way back to Japan! Meeting at a point where a lack of English complimented the poor use of English courtesy (of John Heart and myself), The Boredoms spoke.

SP. So how long have you guys been in Melbourne?

B. We just arrived today.

JH. The Boredoms have been around for about ten years, but in the last say 3 or 4 years you’ve become quite well known in the USA and you’ve had people like Sonic Youth, Jon Spencer, Beastie Boys, all saying “Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms”. How do you feel about that?

B. It’s fine.

JH. What do you think is a Western audiences impression of the Boredoms?

B. Straight! Straight!

JH. What is the Japanese impression?

B. Insane!

JH. I believe you Yamamoto, own a club in Osaka?

B. Yes.

JH. What kind of music do you play there?

B. Noise, noisy music, Scum rock!

SP. We’ve heard that the Boredoms, or at least some members of the Boredoms have made a record with WEEN from America. Is this the case?

B. Eye(The Boredoms frontman) did for sure and Yoshimi(drummer with The Boredoms and member of Kim Gordon’s ‘Free Kitten’) and probably Yamamoto. It happened, long, long time ago now. Two years ago.

SP. Two years ago!!! Will we see it released here in Australia?

B. I think somebody is releasing out already, I think just now. Recently.

SP. The most recent Boredoms album is called “Chocolate Synthesizer”. Do you have a chocolate synthesizer?

B. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t. But we do want to use a chocolate synthesizer, a real one!

JH. All of you Boredoms are in so many different bands. How do you write Boredoms songs, considering you have so many different bands?

B. We all write like we are ‘schizophrenic’.

SP. What were the earliest influences on The Boredoms and have they remained influences to now, or have they changed entirely? Are you your own influence?

B. Everything. We are influenced by everything from the beginning to now.

JH. You obviously have different bands so you have an idea of the Boredoms sound, but every album is kinda different, different instruments. How do you do it?

B. We never wanna do the same thing again.

A number of releases by The Boredoms are available thru Warner Music Japan and via import. Thanks to Kathryn Taylor(Warners), & Junko Hiratani.