8 QUICKIES WITH EASTER
ALIEN BABIES or REAL BABIES
DRUGS or HUGS
CLUBS or HOUSE PARTIES
HATS or CAPS
CHAINS or CHOKERS
LATEX or SILK
HIT or RUN
EYELINER or LIPLINER
Return
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: EASTER
exhibition How To Make The Movie Of Your Dreams which is a movie combined with different pieces, all circulating around the life of an imaginary character called Lill Apocalypse. Only a small group of Ihra Lill’s closest friends were invited to this vernissage and once we got there, Stine was in the middle of cutting lime for the drinks. She showed us her knuckles that were tattooed with IHRA LILL and also her tattoo of a taco shell. “It’s my favorite food” she stated.
After watching Ihra Lill’s film and taking a closer look at the exhibition, we found an area quiet enough to have a quick chat about all of the things that we wanted to know about Easter. We sat down in a circle on the floor with our drinks and it was almost as we were having a pretentious picnic.
"I hope that you are not going to film this. We have done video interviews in the past and they went really bad." Stine says.
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Stine: Yeah. So probably playing in the streets with another child for them to be taken by the older person into the older persons hungry arms.
Is Psychobitch based on a real person?
Stine: Mm
So you’ve met this horrible person? Tell me about it.
Max: You’re over it.
Stine: Yeah I’m over it now, which is good. It’s the worst social… Yeah, it was horrible. But we can’t perform that song anymore, because it’s not real anymore.
So about your upcoming album; You’ve just released New Cuisine pt. 1, when will pt. 2 come out?
Max: End of the year.
Stine: Yeah when we have the second part we’re gonna add it to the first and then it’s gonna be a full length album.
So how was the process in making the album? Was it any different compared to your other albums?
Max: I think we just took longer time. Normally, like the last time, we don’t use so much time for all the songs and this time we took like two months for five songs. Normally we would make ten songs in one month.
Do you have any inspirations? Any musicians or artist that inspire you in your work?
Stine: No.
It could be anyone, like Barbie or Madonna.
Stine: Maybe more like little things happening everyday.
So your lyrics are usually based on real life happenings? Or do you make them up?
Stine: Different.
What did you think about the fact that MTV compared you to Lil B?
Stine: First I liked that, because I think he’s funny. But then when I realized people were actually reading this article... It’s always like this, you see stuff written about you but you never think that other people, that you know at least, are gonna read it. And then I realized it was a kind of dissing article or something so then I didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. I’m not that into his music, I just like his Facebook statuses. How he makes a statement and always signs it with Lil B even though it’s obvious that it’s him.
Are you always DIY or do you have slaves that do everything for you?
Stine: Easter Jesus Productions, wanna say something about that?
Max: Yeah well sometimes we recruit friends to do stuff, but we always keep control. We wanna get an assistant. Or we don’t know yet if we’re gonna get an assistant or travel to America first.
Are you signed or do you release your stuff on your own label?
Max: We just upload it on Bandcamp.
How do you style your hair?
Stine: I don’t style it so much but Max cuts it. It’s cheap.
Have you tried styling it with beer?
Max: Beer??
Yeah, very good for hairstyling.
Stine: Is it good for styling as well? I thought it was just healthy. I’ve tried to put beer in my hair, but I’ve never styled it with it.
What does your place in Berlin look like?
Stine: It’s really nice. It’s almost as if you’re not in Berlin because, we live in the north of Berlin, like really off. You walk up from the street and then into the backyard and then you can’t hear anything. It’s totally silent. So we’re really lucky about that place, I mean we have a little forest that we can look out to. And currently there’s pink flowers all over it. It’s almost like the trees wants to grow into our house.
And what would your dream place look like?
Stine: We just talked about that actually. About if we didn’t live there, what should we upgrade to. Maybe more storage space.
Max: Maybe more light. It’s a bit dark with all the trees.
Stine: Yeah, it’s like a cave. With some trees that wants to get in. But maybe we’d want a bigger place, maybe nicer neighbours.
You don’t have nice neighbours?
Stine: Or well, they’re nice, but they don’t like dogs and I have a dog.
Do you have any tattoos?
Max: Mine’s a secret.
Stine: That’s what makes yours good. I have the name of the artist we just saw [Ihra Lill] on my knuckles. And this is a taco.” Stine shows a tiny taco shell on her thumb. It’s my favorite food. ☺
“I can’t believe this, it’s like having two gods in the room!”
Just in time for Maundy Thursday, Berlin-based electroduo Easter, consisting of Stine Omar and Max Boss, entered the stage at infamous concert venue Moriskan in Malmö. The dancefloor was bathing in pink and blue limelights and the crowd was dazed and confused still, after opening act SPUG’s crazy performance art about an hour earlier.
Stine Omar’s piercing gaze seemed to burn a hole in the immersed audience as she uttered the final line in the track The Heat: “I sometimes wonder, would things have been any different without a ceremony?” and a young person who seemed to know every word in every song yelled out hir love for them.
Earlier that day we had met up with Stine and Max at art gallery KHM in Malmö, where artist Ihra Lill held a vernissage for her art project and
Tell me about the first time you met each other.
Stine: We met in Berlin, in 2005, which was the first time I was in Berlin. I was there with my school, a school from the north of Norway. And I was not surrounded with nice people so I couldn’t be with them. So then I walked out and tried to find… nice people.
"Max lost his train, the last train. He was also in Berlin just on a visit, he was about to study medicine -"
And then you met Max?
Stine: Yes, or then I saw Max… through a window, eating noodles. In Friedrichshain. In Berlin. And I was thinking "That looks like a nice person”. I didn’t go up and talk to him because I don’t do that. So I sat down at the bar next to the [noodle] place, ordered a drink, realized it was non-alcoholic and asked to have alcohol in it. At the same time I realized I was running out of time, so I had to run over.
He was about to pay and I asked “Do you wanna hang out?” and he said “Okay”. So I took him over to the bar and then we finished the drink and then we just… (She turns to Max) You lost your train. Max lost his train, the last train. He was also in Berlin just on a visit, he was about to study medicine or considering studying to become a physician. Just because he didn’t know what else to do.
Max: What else to do yeah.
Stine: But so then we didn’t have a place to sleep because I didn’t want to go back to that hotel with those people. So we were just walking around drinking tea all night. Eventually we went back to the hotel, which was like a big dorm, because we were too tired. When I woke up he was gone. But we kept contact on email and he came visiting me… and that’s when the art started.
When did you form Easter?
Max: 2010.
Was that your first band or did you have projects going on before that?
Stine: We had something we called Euroshit, but that was more jam-based. You can’t find any evidence of it.
Why do you call yourselves Easter?
Stine: I think it was one easter that was a very productive time for us, like when we were together and working, mainly on film then. And then it [Easter] is also a very international term. There’s really no reason except that we, as everyone, like that image of Jesus on the cross. It’s just a name.
Who is the person you were playing on the street with in Ur a Great Babe?
Max: That’s a good question.”
Stine: I think that song is about… It’s a song to the person who took your virginity. If I remember correctly. I think it’s about being a child who’s being taken in by an older person, for them to have it’s virginity taken. But doesn’t it go like… I think it goes…
Max: It was summer, it was hot, I was playing in the streets. Or?
Did it work?
Stine: I don’t know, I think I have healthy hair.
Tell me about your best birthdays.
Stine: I think it’s gonna come this year. But everyone knows that one shouldn’t have too much expectations, I had last year and it was the worst birthday ever.
Max: Mine too.
What happened?
Stine: We were touring on both of our birthdays. You can’t expect a day to be great when you’re surrounded by strangers and you have to perform and so.
Max: For dutch people.
Stine: “Yeah, dutch people... But god I don’t know, do you have a best birthday of your life, Max?
Max: Yeah, up until last year I’ve always had pretty good birthdays. They just got better and better, but then the last one…
What signs are you?
Stine: Guess.
Perhaps a virgin?
Stine: No.
Scorpio?
Stine: No but I think that’s my ascendant! I’m a gemini.
Max: Libra.
by conrad hübbe
In the end of 2014 New Cuisine pt. 2 will be released and together with New Cuisine pt. 1 form a full length album. Easter also tells us that they are currently working on a lo-fi soap opera, which is something that they have always wanted to do. We can’t do anything but to look forward to that, and god knows what other interesting projects the duo might come up with in the future.
