Summadayze Interview

Just popped on to share an interview with Del and Jake while they were at the Summadayze fest down under!



Keep requesting #SHADYLOVE on your local radios. I'm gonna get my shady love.

Oh and follow the lovely Del Marquis on twitter HERE

Shears Interview with the National

Jake has a chat about playing in Abu Dabi and the reception of the new song "Shady Love". Click HERE for the article. 

Del Marquis interview.

Just a little interview from Del with the Wall Street Journal on their current tour in Asia!

Fresh from the Asian leg (Hong Kong, Bali and Singapore) of their 2012 tour, Scissor Sisters guitarist Del Marquis spoke with Scene Asia about playing on this side of the world, the band’s latest single “Shady Love” and where they’re headed next.

The Wall Street Journal: What are your impressions of Asia so far?

Del Marquis: The places we have gone [have] a strong Western influence, so it’s really a meeting point in terms of where we’ve chosen, or where we’ve been allowed, to play in Asia.

It’s interesting in that it’s an easy place for a Westerner to kind of get a sense of the different cultures. Especially Singapore and Hong Kong, [where] almost every language is spoken.

WSJ: How do the fans here compare?

Marquis: In Hong Kong, people were just on the verge of being polite and subdued but having a great time. There’s no mistake people react differently culturally, and it doesn’t mean they’re enjoying it any less or more.

In Bali, I have to say it was half of a tourist crowd, so you get the classic, really drunk Westerner who has no social decorum at all next to the people who are traveling from within Indonesia who are just so thrilled that we’re even in their part of the word.

WSJ: Thoughts on playing in Singapore?

Marquis: This continent has been a little bit surprising to all of us. It’s almost, if not more of a melting pot than New York. I don’t get the sense that it’s oppressive.

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WSJ: Any concerns about the way you guys dress and the songs that you sing?

Marquis: That’s what we’re paid to do, so if someone’s going to come out and throw a tarp over me…I guess it can happen. But I don’t know what it’s like to live in a place and feel any kind of oppression, in terms of living openly if you’re gay or lesbian.

WSJ: How has the response been to “Shady Love”?

Marquis: It’s doing well, it was in the top 10 world-wide when it came out. People are loving it and hating it. It’s a conversation. It’s not like any other song we’ve put out.

WSJ: How do you decide which artists to work with?

Marquis: It’s usually [lead singer] Jake…being inspired by something. But we never go for the obvious choices. We never like the idea of just paying someone like the Dream $100,000 if it’s not a good fit. I think we find people with like minds, who like what we do.

WSJ: What’s next for you?

Marquis: We play a show in Abu Dhabi, which is another frontier. That I’m a little bit more concerned about [laughs] — but like I said, if they’re paying for us to be there, they know what we’re about. And we haven’t gotten any kind of warning not to display your ankles, as far as I know it should go off without a hitch.

Scissor Sisters Secrets

Jake and Babydaddy confess their secrets!!

Ana Matronic in Vogue

Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters Wants To Get Her Hands On Dior Haute Couture
Read the article HERE

I Shall keep you posted!

Hello scissorheads! Gonna be attending the tiny radio gig in Manchester and can't bloody wait, along with the One Night Stand recording down in London with some of the best scissor chums you could ask for!!! I'm thinking of making a little video diary. We'll see... but follow me on twitter HERE for all the latest goss on whats happening!!!

Here's a very sexy picture of Jake to keep you guys satisfied in my absence...


Also check out a lengthy but really interesting interview with Jake by clicking HERE

BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD OR BUY A CD, VINYL COPY OF ANY WHICH WAY NOW!!!!!

Jake and Grimmers

Jake had an awesome awesome and funny interview with grimmers. Check it out!!! Hilareous!! on bbciplayer. CLIK CLIK

CNN News

Jake and BD turned up on CNN News. Not quite living up to a SS News broadcast but Jake shares his feelings on the Fire with Fire video and Any Which Way! Check it out below!

Nylon TV Japan

Interview with Del and Jake when they were in Japan!

Ana and BD in Toronto!

PS Dancing Phil makes an appearance!!! hahaha Xxx

Scissor Sisters on La Musicale in France

Okay they recorded this performance ages ago at the start of June before they did the Nightwork Club Tour. However it's just been aired and uploaded to youtube now. I'll message the owner to see if they're going to put up part 1 but here's part 2 & 3 below!!! (part 1 now added!)

P.S. Isn't Ana's wig just awesome. Oooof!

NPR Interview

AUX TV Interview

Nothing new talked about in the interview, but don't Jake and Del look smashing in HD!! haha

Daily Mail Interview with Ana

Ana Matronic: The Sister Sisters star on gaining a husband and losing two stone

The Ana Matronic who curls up on the couch for a chat is not the Ana Matronic you might know from those gaudy queens of camp pop the Scissor Sisters. As one of the Sisters, and the only girl among four men (three of them gay), she is the very spirit of dirty disco, belting out anthems like ‘Take Your Mama’ or ‘Filthy/Gorgeous’ that leave little room for misinterpretation. As she says, ‘Our new album is an absolute testament to being turned on.’
But away from the stage and the songs and the boys, you get a different Ana (pronounced Arna). Gone is the trademark flame-red bouffant (it’s still red, but less so, and there’s less of it), the high-gloss lippie, the outrageous get-up. Gone too, since their last album four years ago, is two stone of weight, taking her from plus-size poster girl to almost pixie-ish popette. The ballsy broad who dares us to ‘take me, any which way you can’ on the Sisters’ new album Night Work doesn’t seem much like the Ana, 36, who is telling me how she and her new husband have been lovingly renovating their Brooklyn home (and how they discovered, dash it, that they’ve been using the wrong mortar for their kitchen floor tiles).
As if to emphasise that there are two Anas, at this year’s Glastonbury Festival the Sisters received a rapturous welcome back to the Pyramid Stage (it’s been four years since their last album, Ta-Dah, and to mark the occasion HRH Kylie Minogue joined them on stage for a knees-up). You would have thought Ana would be mobbed. But she says that afterwards, with the crowd still buzzing, she was able to walk around Worthy Farm just about unnoticed. ‘If people are looking for me, they’re looking for big red air, lots of make-up and sequins. If I don’t have red hair, lots of make-up and sequins, they don’t see Scissor Sisters. I’m fortunate in that I can hide easily if I want to.’
It’s not so easy, she says, for the band’s lead singer Jake Shears to blend in, but then again, of all the Scissor Sisters, Jake is the least likely to opt for understatement. This year’s performance drew complaints from BBC viewers thanks to Shears’ final costume change, which left him with little more than a few pieces of string laddered over his impeccably peachy bottom.

Ana laughs it off. ‘It’s so silly. Name the female pop icon of your choice and her butt cheeks are hanging out, so it’s nothing new. It’s just not the girl doing it this time.’ And even with her new body, for Ana and the Scissor Sisters, that’s how it’s going to stay. ‘I’m comfortable showing a little bit more, but I’ve never been really into putting on a big skin show. I just feel there’s enough of that. I feel like women are still equating their worth with how attractive they are to men, and that’s not the statement I want to make, personally.
‘You know what? I just get tired of seeing yet another actress or pop star with their clothes off. It seems that these days, to achieve a certain level of success as a female performer, you have to get your kit off. The exceptions are very, very few: Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift – they’re like the only ones. And one of them you don’t really want to see naked, while for the other it doesn’t seem age-appropriate.’
Ana Matronic, it’s clear, is a woman who says it like she sees it. And all power to her elbow for that. But it does mean that I approach a slight contradiction in the Matronic credo with caution. When the Scissor Sisters exploded on to the scene in 2004 with their eponymous debut album, Ana was held up as something of an icon for larger women. Back then she said that she accepted her body as it was, curves and all. Does she feel that she has gone back on that by slimming down so drastically?
‘I guess if you want to look at it that way…but I’m still fat by Hollywood standards: if I walked into a casting for a part in a movie they’d probably tell me to lose 30 more pounds, so in that respect I don’t believe I’m letting the sisterhood down. And in another respect I believe I’m providing a really good role model for people who do want to change. It is possible.’
Her motive, she says, wasn’t to fit in with the size zeros: ‘I started going to the gym because I wanted to be healthy. I was on a tour [for Ta-Dah] where I was really feeling my body’s limits. I had reached a certain age; I was starting to see the first inklings of physical limitation. I thought, “I’ve got to change something here to be able to do what I’ve always done.” Which is perform. Once I got into that mindset, the weight started coming off.’ There was no big goal, she says: ‘I don’t weigh myself, I don’t judge myself by a number on a tag or a label on a pair of jeans.’
So no fad diets, mung-bean shakes or personal trainers. Ana simply started eating better, hitting the gym and cutting out the booze.‘Once you start drinking and you’re on a tour bus, after a couple of hours you’re like, “Where’s the chocolate?” I am still
a chocoholic, but I don’t drink as much, and I go to the gym the next day.’

If we were feeling mischievous, we might put the weight loss down to her wedding in April to lighting designer Seth Kirby…except that she’s been with him for seven years now, so it wasn’t exactly a whirlwind romance.
‘We got married because...OK, I should back up a little bit. Seth does lights and visuals for bands and he works with this man Josh White, who did the visuals at Woodstock. Josh has been married to his wife Alice for 32 years, and Josh and Seth had just done a gig and it came out that Seth and I weren’t officially married. Josh and Alice couldn’t believe it, because we had been referring to each other as husband and wife for years.
Seth came home and said, “God, I just got an earful from Josh and Alice,” and we were just talking about it over the next few days and then it was like, “Yeah, yeah, we should do it, we should do it.” I was on the computer and I looked down and he was on his knees and he said, “Will you marry me?” and I said yes and he said, “Will you fill out the paperwork and we’ll go right now?” So we went to City Hall that day, got the paperwork, then waited six days and did it officially.’ Josh White, Seth’s sister Kate and their housemate Joe were witnesses, and they’ll be having a party and a honeymoon once the upcoming tour is over.
It must be said that there is still a certain glow to Miss Matronic – now Mrs Kirby, although unlikely to refer to herself as such. ‘Marriage? It’s just better and deeper. It’s like the difference between dating someone and dating someone you’re in love with. It’s that next logical step.’
And children? ‘I love the idea. There are a lot of idiots having children in the world these days, so we should probably put a good one out there!’ However many mini Matronics may emerge in the next few years, it’s unlikely they’ll have a childhood like Ana’s. She was born in 1974 to mother Sherry, a painter, and father Robert, an art director, in Portland, Oregon. The family soon moved to San Francisco, and when Ana was only three her parents divorced – her father had been disappearing at nights and, when her mother confronted him, he admitted that he was gay. He left home that evening, leaving Ana and her older sister Kate with her mother. Ana found out why he had gone three years later, when one day in the car her sister asked about their parents getting back together.
‘Mum said, “We can’t get back together, because Dad is gay.” It wasn’t said in a brutal or shocking way. Although I was young, I knew Dad now felt about men the way that he had once felt about my mother. Basically, I understood this meant they’d never be together – and at six, that sucked.’ Ana’s mother remarried and Ana took her stepfather’s name, Lynch. By the time she was 14, and back in Portland, her father had contracted HIV. A year later he was dead.

The simple Freudian line is that Ana gravitated towards the San Francisco gay scene after dropping out of college, performing as a (straight, female) drag queen and ending up in a band with three gay men, in a bid to understand her absent father and the choice he made. ‘I may have chosen that path subconsciously, but I didn’t think, “Right, life mission: I’m going to understand what it’s like to be a gay man.” I’ve always been a very flamboyant person and I think I would have ended up there anyway. I was born and raised in a very artistic household. I went to drama classes at school. My mother is an incredibly artistic woman. She lives to paint. That’s her great love in life and to be raised by a very, very passionate artist is really great as a child. I think that regardless of whether or not my father was gay, I would have sought out creatively passionate people.’
She says that she doesn’t think about people in terms of gender anyway: ‘I’ve always felt as if I was kind of a masculine woman. I don’t identify with stereotypical notions of femininity. I don’t think that women should be treated any differently than men. Women are human beings. I don’t really think about people in terms of masculine or feminine, but in terms of active or receptive. Receptive would be feminine in times past, but I just think of them as more receptive people. Then there are people who act out more and I’m certainly one of those. But I really try not to think about putting people in boxes.’
Which may explain why in person Ana Matronic is so unboxable herself. There’s drag queen Ana, there’s practical homebody Ana, and there’s Scissor Sister Ana – big red hair, make-up and sequins, as she puts it. It all depends on what face she’s wearing, but as she slips away to get into make-up and costume for the shoot, I tell her how great she looks simply as herself: no slap, hair back, free of all the glitzy impediments of being Ana Matronic.
‘Well, I’m about to be caked in slap, but thank you. For the most part, if I don’t have to get dolled up, I don’t. But I enjoy having a job that I can dress up for. I like the extremes, but there are degrees of it. So there’s the casual, there’s the half fabulous, there’s the three-quarters fabulous and then there’s the full drag. And you’re about
to get the full drag, baby.’
Scissor Sisters’ new single ‘Any Which Way’ will be released on 20 September. Their album Night Work is out now

Ana Interview

Scissor Sisters returned earlier this year with their third studio album, "Night Work," a full-tilt dance party wrapped up in a nice little package with a butt on the cover. Now the New York disco-pop outfit is out on the road performing it every night, which Ana Matronic, the group's resident female, tells us is much harder than anticipated. The 35-year-old singer, who got her start at San Francisco's very own Trannyshack parties, called us after the band's first tour date in Atlanta. Scissor Sisters play next Sunday at Oakland's Fox Theater.

Q: There are no ballads on the new record. Do you guys just come onstage and go nuts?

A: It's hard core. We were joking that we were going to have Richard Simmons come out for one of the shows and lead everyone in a workout.

Q: Watching some of your moves, it already feels like you guys have studied every Jane Fonda workout video from the '80s.

A: Jake (Shears) loves Jane Fonda's workout tapes. He's a big aerobics fan in general. There's nothing he loves more than a woman with a giant frizzy perm and French-cut leotard with leg warmers. If I came out onstage wearing that, he would cry. I'm not kidding.

Q: One of your backup singers is a yoga teacher. Was that part of the job description?

A: No, that was a nice coincidence. She's very close to having her instructor certification. We also have a trainer on the road with us for the first time, which is new. It's pretty strenuous. We really are getting a workout onstage. You have to be keeping it up. I haven't worked out in a couple of weeks and we just did our first show in Atlanta. There were a couple times during the night I was like, "Don't forget to breathe."

Q: Do you feel in some way responsible for Lady Gaga?

A: She's cited us as an influence. I definitely think you can see that in what she does. I think the really big thing behind what we do and what she does is you can be a show person and you can be grandiose and be outrageous and still be good musicians. That's at the heart of what we do.

Q: Do you miss anything about the Trannyshack days in San Francisco?

A: What don't I miss about the Trannyshack days? I loved the themes. I loved coming up with a song or outfit just to match some crazy queen's whim. Honestly, I miss everything about it. It was such a great, creatively rife time. It was such a time of personal discovery about myself and my own personal boundaries. I really consider it my performance college, really the place I honed what I do. Scissor Sisters is just a bigger, logical step up from that. {sbox}

Time in Montreal

Here's a really chilled and funny interview with Del and Jake in Montreal!
VIDEO IS WORKING AGAIN! yay! :)
Interesting things from this video:
Find out which spice girls they'd be?
Top or bottom... lol
25th Scissor Anniversary?

NYC Interview and Deadmau5/Kylie Collab

Here's a recent interview with jake and BD in NY and here's the song written by Jake Shears and produced by Deadmau5 featuring Kylie

CHANGE YOUR MIND

Popyoularity Interview

Ok rubbish quality interview but it sheds some light on the Shrek song "Isn't It Strange" but there's also some really good questions in there too!

4music Faves

Catch up if you havn't seen it. The band perform "Any Which Way", "Fire With Fire", "Skin Tight" and "Take Your Mama"

Whoowee More Scissor Interviews.

Theres some golden ones in here and some not so good ones, usually dependent upon the interviewer. But check them all out any which way you like.