Bitter Ruin, an acoustic duo from the UK after releasing two EP's are starting the work on their new release. Read what are their plans for the future and what was their most bizarre gig in an interview specially for RockTown.pl:

Desribe your music in three words.

Dramatic, Confrontational, Exquisit ;)

There’re only two of you. Have you ever considered finding some new musicians to join the band as new full-time members?

Absolutely. At the moment we'd really like to have some strings and our piano. The problem is transportation and funding. For some gigs we do incorporate a piano but because we dont use roadies we struggle to carry everything ha ha! If we had an endless supply of money, our show would include a full orchestra and a choir too. However, the focus has always been on the vocals and I'd like to think that whatever we added, we could always go back to the bare minimum and play acoustically.

Are you taking advantage of the fact that you only need an acoustic guitar to play your songs? For example does it happen that you suddenly want to play a suprise show in some place other than a music venue?

Yes all the time! We've played some rather bizarre gigs in peoples living rooms/back yards/stables and we are a sound engineer's dream because we are so easy to soundcheck. At the end of the day, a good song will transpire through any arrangement. If you have a great song, it should sound great on any instrument.

If you had a chance to choose an artist to share stage with – who would that be and why?

Jeff Buckley would be the ultimate! (but he's dead so maybe that will happen in the afterlife) maybe Kate Bush...mmm....not sure, we are really picky. We love Amanda Palmer, but again, not sure that we're a perfect match. Maybe someone who just has a massive fanbase like Beyonce or Mariah Carey! I know, it's gotta been Queen! (Again, that would need to be in the afterlife) OK, Antony and the Jonsons...oh I don't know anyone interesting. ha ha!

Do you have some rock inspirations? And if yes – what are they?

Yes. Both of us were in Rock bands when we met. Ben loves Slayer and System of a Down. Georgia loves Talking Heads, System of a Down and Skunk Anansie. We have very strange taste in music, one day it'll be Stevie Wonder then Mozart and Chopin then Bjork then Edith Piaf, anything with passion, and Rock has a lot of that!

What are your plans for the nearest future?

Well we're writing for the new album now. We'll be recording that in December in the US with Jason Rubal (Amanda Palmer's producer). After that, a tour of Europe will be looming. I'd say 2010 goes a bit like this: Release album, Tour Europe, Tour US, Release Video, Write songs, Stop just in time for Christmas!

And the last one – my favourite. Do you remember some funny/horrifying/strange things that happened before/during/after your shows?

Oh yes! wow, where do we start. Well, due to the nature of our music, we've played a lot of bizarre shows with bizarre people. Lots of fetish stuff including mumifying demonstrations as our supporting act, stripteases in basements and zombie parties. But the strangest one has got to be the time we turned up to a gig and were completely ignored by everyone...It was in this really strange little town with no one around, the shops all looked empty or as if from the 60s. The venue we played was run by a variety of strange looking people from giants to toddlers, hippies and business men and they'd hired in some chinese chefs who couldn't speak a word of English and told 'vegetarian Georgia' that the beef chop suey was meat free...we weren't welcomed into the house and yet we were under strict instructions to go and play a gig. After sometime we just walked in, ha ha, after waiting and waiting and waiting to be told when and where we were playing, we just got up and did it...everyone loved us and a lot of the normal people there bought merchandise, but again, when we went to see the organisers, they turned their backs to us and poor Ben stood for about ten minutes trying to talk to this guy who was blanking him! Not a word! wierd...So we asked for our money and ran!

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