Born:

Anna: Seattle, Washington;

Andy: Jersey

Personal Motto: Life is but a dream

Musical Style: Psychedelic, electronic, erotic, art rock

Musical Influences: Kate Bush, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, Wagner and Air

 

Demeter are the bastard offspring of Seattle born singer Anna Mercedes' rock insanity and London-bred electro innovator Andy Chatterley's creative frustrations; they are the candy darlings of London's underground electrock scene. The genius art-nouveau rockers' sound is epic, compulsive and enigmatic – as their name, drawn from Greek mythology, would suggest. Finnish guitarist Tony Haimi, Spanish drummer Juan Toni and bassist Puter complete the line-up. Their new single, 'Addict', is an indulgent journey through Demeter’s own twisted take on pop; it's the soundtrack of London’s Soho at 5am, absinthe bottle in hand and broken heel on the kerb - a debauched affair.

 

Andy Chatterley: I’ve just finished writing a book, which was a cool process. And we’re finishing recording our debut album at the moment.

Anna Mercedes: We shot a video with Collision Films last week for 'Addict'. They’re so creative and all insane geniuses. They make some of the best videos I've ever seen, including ones for Radiohead, Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand, so I was thrilled they loved the song and wanted to do it. We just got a new recording studio in north London which is like a huge factory complex. The control room looks like an old Chinese porn theatre and we turned the second control room into a forest with a big tea party set up in the woods. Besides that I made a glitter sand castle this week.

 

To take over Japan. To play the first show in outer-space. To make the soundtrack for the trip to the moon. And to record an album for zero gravity.

 

AC: I’m a synth freak. At the moment Roland SH09 – very heavy useful sounds, using a Synthi A by EMS. It's crazy and makes weird tripped-out noises.

 

David Lynch, Kate Bush and Syd Barrett.

 

AC: ‘Echoes’ – Pink Floyd. / AM: The Tornados.

 

AC: I go through phases, liking different things. At the moment Rico is one name that comes to mind.

AM: Anything Joe Meek produced. His studio was in a flat on Holloway Road, where he killed himself. It's right by our studio. We’re planning to break into his old flat and have a séance and mike the place up to see if we will capture his spirit on an old reel to reel to give us messages from beyond.

 

AC: Sliders, things on synthesisers.

AM: Fairy tales.

 

AC: Anger.

AM: Metal.

 

AC: ‘2000 Light Years From Home’ – Rolling Stones.

AM: ‘Space Oddity’ – David Bowie.

Salvador Dali (out of his mind, twisted, prolific madman), Anais Nin (erotic, sexual deviant), Houdini (for the entertainment), Alastair Crowley (the great beast 666; the prophet of the star children), Mozart (have you heard his music? He was the first rock star, no question!), Kenneth Anger (he could film the dinner party like no other) and Madam Helen Blavatsky (outspoken medium). Apart from the fact that they’re all dead, which would be a talking point in itself, they were all advanced visionaries and it would be one fucked-up party. We would serve them all tea and magic mushrooms and see where the whole thing ended up.

 

AC: A wandering poet.

AM: An astronaut.

 

'Addict' is out October 17th on Ark Records. The album, ‘Demeter’ is released on October 24th.