Interview with Keith Caputo former singer with LIFE OF AGONY (mid European tour with Travis - in London for an acoustic date 28/3/2000). Buy his new album DIED LAUGHING
"I'm so tired .... I'm doing these gigs with Travis in Germany, I get offstage at midnight back to the hotel at about 4 am and ding - alarm bell at 6am for 7am flight and I've done press and TV all day and here I am today exhausted by all this........sorry I think I need a nap and I'm not going to get one, I have to do another interview and then sound check.... and this is not even a representation of who I am today, I finished Died Laughing in 98, I wrote most of the songs on the record when Life Of Agony were doing Ugly so I'm so caged and frustrated doing all this stuff, I'm on record 3 already and I've still got to introduce this to the press, I think Roadrunner are a little confused by what I've given them which is like nothing they've put out before and so..............well all this.......
The Travis thing is cool though they're a bunch of sweet guys and he's a great songwriter, I'll play in front of anyone as long as people appreciate my innocence and my approach to art I'm grateful and I don't really care who the audience are, I feel I have to go through my own healing process and I have to work out so many things within myself, I am doing what I believe I'm supposed to be doing and with or without anyone else I'd still be doing it and I don't want to sound like an asshole but I'm not after any rewards I just want to make the greatest records that I could possibly make whether its y'know .....nothing's guaranteed so I can't expect anything .....I'm very vulnerable it's like I'm Christ on the cross being whipped by the Romans at all times - every day all day ......I'm playing these gigs with Travis and its just so....I feel like I'm bringing back the sixties cos I've a real rock'n' roll band with me I like to keep things really open, there is no format, the direction is directionless, total spur of the moment, total Doors, total ......format doesn't exist .............This is the first time I've had a proper band I mean I've done a television show here and there with different musicians but this is the first time I had the opportunity to have a serious fucking band and now it's really growing and this members playing jazz and fusion and this one..... somehow during this tour...... everyone's become so sensitive and this one's going to be a father and this one played for Candy Darling...... I think I'm bringing things out of them that are so in their past .....the drummer was into jazz and I'm allowing him to feel like this innocent child again going back to his rock 'n' roll roots the way he expresses his anger in a very jazz orientated way .....I wanted originally to call it Brandy Duval not like for it to be a solo thing ...there's only two more dates of the Travis thing left now.... I will be doing more live stuff ...when I'm on-stage I want to just do the live thing but when I'm off stage I want to be in the studio ............I have a great band now and they can follow my every bizarre intention on stage ........we just take it so beyond the record......I'm at such a strange cross-roads in my life I feel like I don't know what to do anymore .....I'm living moment by moment .....I'm living in Amsterdam now......the music takes me there......I went home ( to New York) for Xmas but that was just private time........my band lives in Amsterdam it's like my new hometown in a way....but I don't really go out much ...I'm kind of a loner, I don't feel I get enough time for myself so I just stay in with my girlfriend or strum a guitar or read or write poetry, do my yoga............I think I'd like a family maybe that's my ultimate dream but in a sense if you have a close band it's a family in some strange way, like a tribe.........I'm nobody I'm just a human being trying to survive......"