Let me tell you a little something about a couple of hardcore, electrotrash, teen bad arse girls. Toxic Lipstick are just your average, fake 14 year old musical duo, from a Brisbane high school near you. With lyrics such as “Check out my tits, I just cut them off” and “Why don’t you like me? Is it ‘cause I told my friends, about the size of your erection?” It’s plain to see why they list their influences as Nikki Webster and Bec Cartwright. If you were to put Kylie Mole and Vicki Pollard from Little Britian together and add music, you would get something along the lines of Toxic Lipstick.
Toxic Lipstick write alot of completely “in your face” lyrics, consisting of content, I couldn’t even mention in this interview. I ask how they started to make this kind of music in the first place? “Rumour has it, we were cranking out, banging techno, back in 1984, as the seminal psy-trance band. However, anyone who believes those lies, is obviously tripping harder than we were at Rock Eisteddfod. We weren’t even alive back then, as we boast the same age as Nikki Webster. Coincidentally, it was the first single of this subversive pop princess, Strawberry Kisses, that inspired us to share our own tales of teen-hood (sic). I guess the rest is history, or at least will be when it passes.”
After hearing Toxic Lipstick’s rendition of the Home & Away theme song, with fellow Brisbane Band Happy Xmas, are covers going to be thrown into the mix, for the band’s new album? “Funny you should say that, we have just finished our cover of Strawberry Kisses and Nikki has expressed interest in remixing our track, I Smoke My Vomit.”
And where does this love for Home & Away come from? “Home & Away is way more hard-hitting than Neighbours, ‘cause it like deals with real issues. We are fucking glad that Zoe got killed off, because we just never got over her role as Terri from Breakers. While Home & Away is definitely dope, it hardly rates next to the quality television that is Passions! We really look up to zombie Charity as a sister figure, while little Timmy inspired us with his ‘martimmys’, to invent our own cocktail, ‘poonito’. Just add two parts warm red goon, to one part warm pasito and don’t forget the secret ingredient: nothing.” Nothing, got it.
The new album coming out soon by Toxic Lipstick is called, When The Doves Cry…, but when asked about Prince, their response is: “Prince? Who’s Prince? It’s just what happens when we play [doves cry].” So we move right along….
What does the new Toxic Lipstick album consist of? “Each song on the CD, is like a chapter of our lives to date. There is that time we smoked our vomit, behind the bikeracks, those boys that never called back, that pony we always loved and who’ll ever forget that day mum wasn’t home and we got to swear heaps and try on her good black g-string. Synthia had it on for two hours, back to front and didn’t even realise.” And who is this Pony, that is so highly mentioned amongst the Toxic Lipstick camp? “Ah yes, our pony, Mitzi Twistie. Shes actually our manager, which is probably why our career is really taking off right now. She books all our shows and chaperones all of our dates. She also carries us and all of our equipment to our gigs, and tucks us into bed at night.”
Brisbane gets a alot of Toxic Lipstick love obviously, but will the rest of Australia get the chance to be subjected to the Toxic lipstick charm? “We are going to do an East Coast tour of Australia, probably in July. We are also thinking of heading overseas, becausec our pal Rauberhohle, asked us to tour Europe with her, which would be awesome fun! But its going to take a lot of pocket money, and mum just docked ours, because she caught us stealing her smokes.”
Lastly I can’t let them get away, without asking about this highly talked about “pash-o-metre,” that is going to be starring at Toxic Lipstick’s CD launch. It is all very hush hush, but I squeeze out of them a tiny preview: “All we can say is, that it involves a complex system of pulleys and levers, powered by a small locomotive engine.” Hmm, I have a mental image right now.
Toxic Lipstick are reckless, abusive, drugged and a little bit psychopathic, but these girls know what they are doing when it comes to performing and making music, and they are doing it very well. From the back beats of their songs, lyrics and to their highly entertaining live shows, these girls know how to dominate in the techno, electro-trash scene, first high school then the Universe. That’s either going to really excite you, or make you want to kill yourself. Don’t worry, Toxic Lipstick have that effect on everyone.
If you want to see this pashing machine for yourself, plus a load of other Toxic related antics, including alot of fellow Brisbane bands, such as; Collapsicon, The Mean Streaks, 2 Pants Rotation, The Miami Peach, Molliger, Orchard Beach, Jamie W, Justice Yeldham, Nightcrash, gay bomb, Happy Xmas and Drag Party. Not to mention the visual stylings of an original musical, about gore rap, starring Toxic Lipstick, on their quest to write the dirtiest school girl raps ever. Plus a lucky dip, authentic merchandise and exclusive screenings of Toxic TV, then get yourself to 610 Studios Ann St, Fortitude Valley, on the 28th of May. Toxic Lipstick’s CD, when the doves cry…, will be on sale on the night, plus in all cool record stores soon!
