 01/11/2005 Suicide Sports Club
Names: Bruce Aisher & Luke Brancaccio
Born:
BA: Windsor, straight outta Berkshire, in the ’70s!
LB: Westbourne Park, behind some dustbins at the back of the local chippie, 1974
Personal motto:
BA: Dulce et decorum est...
LB: Get those knickers off
Musical style:
BA: Jazz, funk, rock, electro dub.
LB: Just any dope ass music
Describe yourselves:
BA: Dark and broody family man.
LB: Complete and utter toss pot.
Suicide Sports Club – comprising founder members Luke Brancaccio and Bruce Aisher – relates to living on the edge, to pushing things to the limit and throwing caution to the wind. Something many of their club members do very well. Luke is the nephew of classical guitarist, Michael Brancaccio. Prior to the Club’s inception, Luke went to LA alone, with no money and a bag of records, beginning his DJ career. Bruce and Luke met through Rollo’s Cheeky records. They soon become synonymous with the mid-Nineties club scene, recording as Brancaccio and Aisher. Despite what their name may suggest, Suicide Sports Club is not depressive, has no delusions of ‘deep’ grandeur and does not wallow in a self-inflicted emotional quagmire.
What is your biggest achievement so far?
Bruce Aisher: To have made a career out of music, the thing that kept me going all through school, from that initial seed planted by ELO in 1978 – no, really! Luke Brancaccio: Getting laid and catching a glimpse of Kim Jones’s knickers in primary school.
Who are your musical heroes?
BA: Burt Bacharach, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Japan, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, New York Dolls, Herbie Hancock, J.S. Bach, Juan Atkins and many more I can’t think of right now.
LB: I dig Mozart and Chaz and Dave.
What are your plans for the future?
BA: To move to Spain and write avant-garde classical music on the back of the multi-platinum sales of our album. But I’d settle for writing more music, most likely for that difficult second album!
LB: To wake up tomorrow morning without a hangover.
Are there any artists you would like to work with?
BA: Brian Eno would be top of my list – maybe he could help with our next album. David Sylvian would be great and I’d love a Steve Reich remix of one of our tracks.
LB: I’d love to work with Gwen Stefani and someone like Dr Dre. Also the Irish chick from Girls Aloud, but that’s just for sordid reasons.
What is catching your ear at the moment?
BA: I’ve been delving back into the past and listening to the album ‘Clear’ (originally called ‘Enter’) by Cybotron. They were so ahead of their time. Listening to them you can see how 1980s electro and new-wave became house.
What do you do to chill out after a performance?
LB: Take shitloads of valium and pass out in a pool of vomit. Usually, anyway.
Who would you invite to a dinner party, and why?
BA: Heston Blumenthal – I don’t want to bother cooking.
LB: Definitely with Bruce on that one but I would throw in the Irish chick from Girls Aloud. Bruce can go to bed early.
What makes you happy?
BA: Music, my family, friends, sunshine and the colour blue.
LB: Friends, family, I have to say my girlfriend or she’ll get pissed, oh and lots of alcohol.
What makes you angry?
BA: Lack of empathy and velour tracksuits on anyone other than my 11-week old son.
What is your favourite song?
BA: I hate this question. It depends what mood you’re in, but ‘The Look of Love’ by Burt Bacharach and sung by Dusty Springfield might win when you’re on holiday, in a great mood, looking at your wife and child and just won the lottery – aaaah!
LB: ‘Sign of the Times’ by Prince.
If not making music, what would you do?
BA: I’d be a wannabe avant-garde classical composer or lounge pianist.
LB: I always wanted to be a famous actor but more for the chicks and money than anything else.
Suicide Sports Club’s album, ‘Electric Mistress’, is out now.
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