Bloody Lovelies more
than a pop-rock exterior
L.A. based band incorporates sounds from classic
60s and 70s rock as well as other out there' influences
BY AMY LICHTY
PULSE REPORTER
“Grab my guns, I'm in love again.
Life is fun, I'm in charge again,”
croons Randy Wooten, the lead
singer of the Bloody Lovelies, on
their tune "Hologram,” the first song
on their debut CD, “Some TYuth and
a Little Money.” A self
described pop-rock band, the Bloody
Lovelies are making their way to Eu
gene as part of their West Coast tour
to promote their first album, which
was released last spring.
The Bloody Lovelies formed on
the campus of Vanderbilt Universi
ty in Nashville, Tenn., while
Wooten was attending college. Af
ter experimenting with different
sounds, exploring a wide variety
of music and moving to Los
Angeles, the Bloody Lovelies
found their niche, derived from
influences ranging from Tom Waits
to Tom Petty.
“We have a lot of roots in 60s
classic rock, but we have some out
there influences that are hidden
underneath the pop-rock exterior,”
Wooten said. “So, hopefully, if you
listen to our stuff a few more times,
it becomes apparent. Everything
from Jimi Hendrix to Fleetwood
Mac kind of creeps in.”
Another apparent influence is
the “fab four.” And with a name
like the Bloody Lovelies, it’d be
easy to mistake this band as
fellow countrymen of the Beatles,
but the Bloody Lovelies aren’t
even English.
Wooten explained the band’s
name: “Eric (Holden, the bassist)
and 1 were playing at a club outside
of London,” Wooten said. “And the
drunk crowd kept yelling that we
were ‘bloody lovely’ and it became
Courtesy
Rock group the Bloody Lovelies will be performing at the Samurai Duck today at
10 p.m. The band’s first album is entitled "Some Truth and a Little Money.”
a running joke for a while. But then
when we had to come up with a
name, we thought, why not?”
In addition to Wooten and Hold
en, the band is made up of drum
mer Craig Macintyre and lead
guitarist Lance Konerth. After
completing the West Coast leg of its
tour, the band has plans to get back
into the recording studio for a fol
low-up CD, but they don’t plan to
let fame get to them.
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Harrelson: Film provides comic relief, not just preaching to the choir
Continued from page 5
Emerald: How would you rate your
experience making a documentary to
making a regular film? Did you find it
more fun or more exciting?
Harrelson: I loved the result; I
think it turned out great. 1 think
Steve (Clark, “Go Further” cast
member) is a really charismatic
and great person. We’re really fol
lowing Steve’s story mostly, which
is as it should be, and 1 love the
film in that it’s not just preaching,
and that it comes out that, you
know, you’re laughing, and we
don’t take ourselves too seriously.
However, I wouldn’t say it was fun
to make in the sense that I don’t re
ally like having cameras around
me, and every time the camera was
on me I was looking right at the
camera and grabbing a hold of the
camera or the boom, you know, the
mic, so I wasn't the best (laughs)...
because this thing is about the
message. But I loved the way it
turned out; 1 think it’s one of the
most entertaining movies I’ve been
a part of, plus it really has the mes
sage that 1 care about.
Emerald: Do we get to see you act
ing like your wacky self in the film?
Harrelson: Wacky? I don’t know,
I’m a wacky guy maybe, but 1 think
that’s more a persona. There’s some
fun stuff in there; it’s a group of peo
ple, a bunch of my friends took this
trip, and so all of them to me are
kind of interesting. This guy Steve,
whom 1 call Jedi, is pretty wacky
and extremely funny. The thing that
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you’ll find is it’s not like you’re going
to sit down to a lecture; you’re going
to sit down and laugh.
Emerald: What motivated you to
get out and tell college students to
vote?
Harrelson: Well, we have a guy
in office right now who 1 consider a
fascist and who has done a lot of
hurtful things, not just to the econ
omy, but to the ecology. Well hey,
look — 1 don’t think that genocide
for oil is acceptable. I think it’s im
portant that he doesn’t get a
chance to keep doing what he’s
doing. Believe me, it’s going to be
more of the same and there will be
more oil wars.
Emerald: Are you teaching your
two girls to make choices that will
protect the environment?
Harrelson: They’re very consci
entious. Where you live, it’d be
hard to fly over Oregon and not see
the vast amount of clear-cuts. How
ever, most people do fly over it and
don’t notice that kind of thing. So
when I fly over Oregon or Washing
ton or one of the many, many areas
where there’s a vast amount of
clear-cuts, I might mention it to my
daughters. It’s not like I have to sit
and preach to them about it, they
see it. And we live in a community
here where it’s all solar-powered,
and we run our car on biodiesel. So
1 guess you could say that the
teaching is done more by example.
Emerald: You’ve done a lot of
work on TV and movies with other
big stars like yourself. Who have
been some of your favorite actors
and actresses to work with?
Harrelson: I really enjoyed work
ing with Robin Williams. I played
his psycho brother in this movie
called “The Big White” which has
n’t come out yet. 1 did another
movie that’s coming out in Novem
ber, called “After the Sunset,” and I
loved working with Pierce Brosnan,
Salma Hayek and Naomie Harris. 1
love Matthew McConaughey like a
brother; it feels like he is my broth
er. 1 liked working with Demi
Moore... I don’t know, shit, 1
worked with a lot of actors that I re
ally dig a lot. It’s hard to answer
that question, I could name so
many names of people I respect
and love.
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