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Riot Fest Bands Answer One-Word Interview Questions

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To help y’all to get to know some of the (many) artists you should get to know from Riot Fest, we sped up the process by having them pick a one-word interview question from a hat. Here’s what 11 of them had to say (these are all actual quotes):

Artist: Doom Scroll 1WIQ: Rights? A: “Trans rights are human rights. No one is illegal on stolen land. People need rights and they keep trying to take them from us.” And then added, “But also, hey hey hey smoke weed every day!”
Artist: Winona Fighter 1WIQ: Books? A: “Sure.” “No.” “I’d do a book or two.” Then after reading further,, they re-answered,“Comic books and chapter books, I’m in.” “Biographies and only if I can listen to them.” “Only self-help books.”
Artist: Action/Adventure
1WIQ: Water?
A: “Hell yeah hell yeah water!” (Adrian who drinks 2 gallons a day) “Water is nice, I like water.” “Sparkling water, pretty solid.” “Spicy water.” “Arrowhead.” Hey, Arrowhead, let’s get these BIPOC pop punkers a branding deal.
Artist: The Aces
1WIQ: Sex?
“Yes, absolutely, always yes!” “Favorite pastime.” “Everyone should be having more sex…” “YES, important!!”
Artist: Peaches the Press Pup
1WIQ:
A: Heather West of West Media (Pup parent and publicist for Peaches – English interpreter for the rising start in the punk rock world, and Riot Fest organizer), “Give peace a chance, really just do(g) it.”.
Artist: People R Ugly
1WIQ: Capitalism
A: After Tristan and Zak got married at the Riot Chapel, ” “America. Everything here is driven by capitalism. The nihilism, the depression, I put the -ism in capitalism.”
Artist: Liquid Mike
1WIQ: FREEBIE!
A: How to plunge a toilet during your sister’s wedding with your arm as told by guitarist, Dave. “Sleeve up as high as possible, full fist in, and give the old wiggle tickle and it acts like snaking the clog – you will have shithand for quite a while though.”
Artist: Jhariah 1WIQ: Abortions A: “They’re a human right!”
Artist: GWAR 1WIQ: Cats? A: “Formidable creatures, they run the planet, they are in charge of everything, you let them poop in your house – they’ve got you snowballed, these cats that rule the planet.”
Artist: Sincere Engineer 1WIQ: Coffee? A: “I love coffee, I have to get one every day, I drink about 2 centimeters of it, iced coffee, big fan, Dunkin’ or local – black coffee to cut the calories.”
Artis: Jack Kays 1WIQ: Death? A: “It’s inevitable, you’ve done it before, so you might as well not be scared of it.”

And just in case those 1WIQs were too much for you to read here are a bunch of photos of so many stellar performances from some of the artists we interviewed and many we did not:

Photo credits: Matt Christ @christmatt – All gallery photos (except Tierra Whack captured by Curtis Schabath); Curtis Schabath @curtiscam – All interview photos (except GWAR ensemble captured by Matt Christ).

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Curtis Conrad Schabath

Prof. Curtis Conrad Schabath loves being a third-generation Detroiter, dog dad, vinyl slut, and old-school fool. This queer Cancer can be found equally at marches and rallies, on the trails, beach, or streets, taking time to volunteer and teach, and micro-dosing in the morning plus meditating at night just to handle it all. Phone on DND, camera on hand, a few dollars in the pocket, and heart full of love and protection is how they emote and float through this crazy thing (and electric word) called"life".