20 Questions With Holy Ghost

They were rappers, they were DJs, they were remixers, and now they have a full album to keep you footloose and fancy free, Holy Ghost! have risen from making drainpipe- sporting hipsters dance in New York to all over the continent and then some Check the myspace for the duos mad remixes of Phoenix, MGMT, Friendly Fires, and their own boomdiggy shit. In the mean  time Holy Ghost!’s (and they damn well earned that exclamation point) Nicholas Millhiser and Alexander Frankel took some time off to answer PinkMafia’s 20 Q.

1. What is your
dream of happiness?
Alex: Big studio, in corsica
Nick: Yeah, DFA Corsica HQ on the rocks

2. Blonde or Brunette?
Alex: Brunette
Nick: Brunette for sure

3. What is the quality you like most in a man?
Alex: Not being a dick
Nick: Being worse looking and less charming than me

4. What do you fear most?
Alex: Fear itself
Nick: Embarassing my friends

5. 808s or 909s?
Alex: 707′s, also like the latin percussion model, 727!
Nick: Simmons!

6. What’s your biggest regret?
Alex: There are a lot
Nick: Yeah, there are a couple but they are not exactly for a light hearted interview. It would just bum you out.

7. What’s your fav bar or club in the world?
Alex: Subclub! Glasgow!
Nick: Ditto

8. What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Alex: Coffee.
Nick: Beer

9. What are the 3 musicians dead or alive you’d like to see perform?
Alex: Talking Heads at their Rome concerts, Larry Levan any night, MJ.
Nick: Double ditto

10. What is your favorite decade in music?
Alex: 1977-84
Nick: Alex is killing it with his answers. Triple ditto!

11. If you had to choose, would you rather go blind or deaf and why?
Blind, I could still work.
Nick: I’ll say deaf so alex and I could engage in mad-cap antics ala Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in “See No Evil/Hear No Evil.”

12. How old is too old?
Alex: Its never too late
Nick: I’m feeling it now. The kids…are coming up…from behind…

13. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
Alex: Not far from where I am
Nick: Literally. I’d be happy in this very apartment, though hopefully (1) I will own it (2) I will have renovated the kitchen and (3) not be painfully alone.

14. Who’s your hero?

Alex: Make that super hero: Jerry Fuchs.

Nick: From the first time I saw saw him I thought he was the best drummer I’d ever seen but ever since he passed away I’ve spent a lot of time studying his playing and he was actually even better than I thought. I really, really miss him.

15. What’s your favourite colour?
Alex: Red
Nick: Dude! We’re so in touch with each other! Mine is totally red too!

16. What song could you live without ever hearing again?
Alex: your so gay by Katy Perry.
Nick: That fucking reggaeton song the bodega below my apartment has been blasting for the past 4 years.

17. Metallica or Madonna?
Nick: Madonna
Nick: Metallica

18. What’s your most hated vice?
Alex: Cigarettes and taxis
Nick: Good Humor Oreo ice cream bars. I love cigarettes, that’s the problem.

19. Who is the most tragic figure in history?
Alex/Nick: We’re all tragic

20. What are the top three live shows you’ve seen in your life?
Alex: I leave this to Nick
Nick: Jay-Z’s Fade To Black concert at the The Garden. That’s it.

Holy Ghost! Are playing in Toronto at the  Koolhaus May 25th with LCD Soundsystem CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS