Your stage presence is really unique, Samuel – did any other artists inspire it?
STH: There’s definitely some interesting ones. My older brother’s video collection kind of ruined me in some ways as a ten year old kid. I saw Perry Farrell’s Gift film that he did with his girlfriend. It’s all heroin and sex and as a child I didn’t understand what I was seeing. I also watched the GG Allin Hated documentary which is a man basically acting like a child and throwing shit around the stage. I was like “I don’t understand what’s going on!” Also, William turned both me and Gerrit (Welmers, synth) on to Joy Division at freshman college and when I saw Ian Curtis … I’ve never been affected by a performance like that in my life. When I heard Here Are the Young Men I was like “what is this?” That man is channelling something. Glenn Danzig was another huge influence, with the Misfits there’s that power. Elvis also, and Sam Cooke, too …
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