Fischerspooner frontman Casey Spooner: The extended interview (MP3)

He's loud, proud and covered in a thick film of glitter, sweat and extraordinarily expensive costumes most nights. Gimme Noise talked to the man responsible for Fischerspooner's vocals, lyrics and legendary performances (which are something like Rocky Horror meets Jetsons-era Studio 54) on a day that found him walking around his New York City neighborhood. Welcome to the life of Casey Spooner, which, it turns out, is actually kind of ... normal.  (Get interview that ran in print here).

GN: Some people say that in order to "get" Fischerspooner, you have to see them live. Do you agree? 

Casey Spooner: I'm most happy for people to enjoy the show and enjoy the music. Some people like the music more than the show and vice versa, but everything we do we put a lot of energy into -- no one thing recedes. We push the film, design, music, and performance and we work as hard as we can to make it as dynamic as possible. There's not this traditional relationship with music and performance where music is leading. It's all on equal footing.

CS: A painting from Joesph Witt. It's like 4 feet by 6 feet and it's a realistic scale painting of his entire CD and cassette collection. i love that it's super dated already because no one really has CD towers anymore. When you look at it, you actually think [the music] is there in my aparrtment. Every font, every detail is totally realistic. 

CS: That one is really fun to perform. I really feel closest to this record, though everyone always feels this way ... i didn't even feel like Odyssey was mine. "Door Train Home" on the new album was written for Odyssey.

CS: Yeah. Back then I really felt like we should go into couples therapy. We talked about what happened and now we have an understanding. You never anticipate something happening. We 're very different people and that makes the choices and the things that survive the process more unique. It makes the best stuff live but kills the stuff that doesn't really fit. 

GN: What's one thing you've come to learn after making Entertainment? 

CS: That everything we do doesnt have to manifest itself in this one project. 

GN: What is life like after Capitol? 

CS: No matter how outsider or how difficult or how much more labor intensive this era is, we are trying to tour in the midst of a recession, we dont have a lot of promotion. I dont have some big super business pushing me or helping me, but [Warren and I are] back to a very powerful collaboration, back to integrating unique approaches that don't fit into a traditional business model.