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Students having some fun with balloons and gathering supplies for their Hunk of Junk project!!!!!!!

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Washington Business Week students watching the CEO vs. CA (Company Advisers)volleyball match. It was close but the CAs pushed through to be number 1. However, everyone is a winner at Business Week :)

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Washington Business Week students having some fun in the sun with a game of Sharks and Minnows!!!

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Students getting “junk” for their Hunk Of Junk Project at CWU!!!!

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World breastfeeding week

Check it out ladies! WBW is coming up! BREASTFEEDING AND WORKLET’S MAKE IT WORK! August 1st to the 7th! 

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‘23 is not that young’ - an interview with ICEAGE

What do you do when you’re at a festival and all of a sudden you get a text that you’re interviewing Iceage the next day? Go home (exhausted and tired), grab your laptop and research the night away. And what I found wasn’t too encouraging: Reports of breaking off interviews, a band that ‘never smiles’ and about somewhat violent incidents at gigs gave me some bad vibes before the interview. However, the boys, mainly singer Elias Bender Ronnenfelt were quite polite and surprisingly talkative. 

In articles about you there are terms like mysterious and black magic. You are portrayed as somewhat unapproachable. Is that something you approve of or do you not want people to feel that way about you?

I don’t know where the black magic comes from. Mysterious? I don’t find us mysterious. Not really. Why do you think so?

I’m just quoting what other journalists have written about you.

Oh people say a lot of things.

That’s why I’m asking. So you don’t want people to perceive you that way?

They can perceive us any way they want, but we don’t purposely try to create some kind of mystery around us.

How do you perceive your audience, who are they?

We attract kind of a weird bunch I guess. A pretty wide variety, depends on where we are. There doesn’t seem to be a type. Mostly young people probably.

In interviews you claim that your music has no message. Could you say something about that?

It’s not so much that we wanted to get out that it has no message. it’s just that people kept asking about some kind of message and I don’t think there’s any direct message. It’s more about communicating emotion, feeling and music. And I think the greatest purpose of music is to communicate a feeling and then for some people it resonates. It creates some kind of understanding or nurture. You can do a lot of things, but if people ask if there’s a message - I don’t know what it is. We don’t have an agenda.

Since the release of your first album your music has been praised as sounding mature or sounding older than you are yourselves. Do you agree with that? And how is the coming of age experience for you? Is it still going on?

Its definitely still going on. I think we probably sound as old as we are. I really don’t think you should consider age too much. I mean if it’s a reflection of who we are as people, of course and whether that fits our age, I don’t know, does it matter? But of course having started this early we’ve found progressively what you can do with this medium as we go along making records. And of course we discover more and more each time we try.

I think people only talk about that because you’re so young.

23 is not that young.

How do you cope with writing and singing in English, as it isn’t your native language?

We just started off writing in English. Danish can be a little too direct and I don’t like writing in Danish. I don’t find it too pretty as a language. I think it’s nice to have two separate languages, one for talking and now for writing. It wasn’t to reach more people, because when we began we really didn’t dream of reaching anybody.

Describe your band aesthetic in now word.

(silence) I don’t think I can. Impossible. The lesser words you get, the harder it becomes [Elias smiles awkwardly]

I just saw you have a book in your pocket, what is it?

Henry Miller on Writing.

Does literature help you in any way artistically?

Sometimes when you read something it kind of resonates with you and educates you in terms of language. And sure you become a better writer if you read good writers.

You’ve been touring a lot recently. Do you have time to catch up with any other bands? Foxygen are playing tonight at the same time as you.

I don’t wanna see them anyway! That’s not my cup of tea.

I heard that you’re playing new songs at your recent shows. Any plans for a new record?

We just loosely started writing, but there are no plans as to when this will turn into something. It’s only recently that we started writing new songs. We just have to see where it goes.

So it’s just a creative outlet and not like ‘let’s sit down and write’?

We kinda of wait for it to come to us and there were a few ideas which turned into songs. We are touring for the next 6 weeks or so and it’s pretty much impossible to rehearse or work on something more finished on tour. Maybe when we get back we will do it in a haste or it might take a year. You can never really predict how those things are.

Where do you see yourselves as a band in 5 years?

I don’t know if we’re gonna be a band in 5 years. One step at a time.

[holprig]

Ice Age // Dortmund // 2015