Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt

New York
http://www.theterrorpigeondancerevolt.com/

So your band's name is Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt. What's that all about?

Neil Fridd: "The truth is that I named the band when I was in high school many, many years ago. It didn't really take form or become a band until five years after that -- but the name came in high school. At the time, I was in this romantic debacle and I was caught up in that and it ended poorly and I was writing all these songs in my basement on this organ. And I started thinking of myself as this kind of weird version of the Phantom of the Opera, because the Phantom of the Opera hung out in the sewers and played organ. I was caught up over this lady so I thought of myself as that, but a s----y version that can't write songs. The Phantom of the Opera would go out and, like, cut down chandeliers and s---, he'd like f--- stuff up, whereas I was just sad. So that kind of transformed into the idea of a terrifying pigeon; pigeons being this creature that's totally incapable of inflicting any kind of harm on anyone. So the idea of being like an angry tough guy pigeon, that was the Terror Pigeon. I made music super-sporadically like that, just acoustic-like stuff. Then there was this definitive shift where I went 'I just want to make really fun dance music.' And at that point I just added Dance Revolt and here we are today four years after that."

What actually made you go, "Terror pigeons, yeah, that's badass"?

"I don't know. It certainly wasn't ever a belief that it was badass. It's funny because when I think of a mascot for a terror pigeon, I don't think of a pigeon. I don't have any connection to a pigeon. Whenever I've thought of a mascot or what a terror pigeon is I think of an eagle wearing lots of gold chains. It's like an eagle that's dressed like 50 Cent. It's like this crazy, obnoxious life-controlling creature."

So what does the terrifying sound of revolutionary dancing pigeons actually sound like?

"You know when you meet a girl or a boy you like and you're pretty into them, and you're very unsure -- maybe there's circumstances like distance or maybe they might be seeing somebody or something -- so you're like, 'I don't know if this is going to work out.' So you have reservations and then maybe a month or two goes by and you're like, 'I'm still into this person,' and you hang out more and more and you're like, 'Oh no, they're into me. What's going to happen?' And then you totally make out with them. That's the sound we're going for."