The name suggests to quit tobacco; but kids here is the secret – never do drugs or alcohol or tobacco. They are expensive and not good for health. Become a rockstar instead, you’ll get them for free. Tough on Tobacco from Mumbai tells us why exactly you should not do any of the above things. Over to the maniac interviewer and the band:
Eight Octaves: Greetings! How’s the smoking going on now that the new budget has increased the price of cigarettes?
TOT: We only snort prime cocaine now. Our lungs are safer (see attached x-ray)
Eight Octaves: Tell us about the starting days, what made you form the band? Do you guys suffer from some mental disorder like me? 😀
TOT: We met through a suicide hotline.
Eight Octaves: The song structures are mostly very simple yet one enjoys every bit of them. Tell us about the song writing process in general.
TOT: One guy goes duh dat duh dat on the drums, the other one tunes the guitar and another one spews random shit from the dictionary the song is ready. 5 mins per song, max unless we have been snorting prime cocaine.
Eight Octaves: How was the crowd response to your music when you guys started off in 2008?
TOT: It was sick, we got mobbed after our first gig.
Eight Octaves: While writing the lyrics, do you stick to a particular theme? Or do you let your mind play along and go on a crazy spree?
TOT: We buy a thematic dictionary and go with that. That’s how lyrics come about.
Eight Octaves: Who have been you major influences in terms of music?
TOT: MTV.
Eight Octaves: Your album “The Happy Goat” was put on free download on your site. Not many artists would do that, given how much time, energy and money they have to spend composing the songs. What made you make that decision of putting it up for free? Piratebay? Or the anti-social groups? Or the stupid Facebook pages which circulate pictures to supposedly generate money that gets donated to the under-privileged? 😀
TOT: We didn’t want to make money off CD sales. Selling the goat compensated us very well (brb bidding on my third Yacht on ebay)
Eight Octaves: Well, ever thought of having an official mascot for the band? Like a Bugs Bunny smoking a cigarette? 😀
TOT: No. But this revolutionary idea deserves special mention IN CAPS.
Eight Octaves: What are the plans for this year? Any new songs or maybe an album coming up?
TOT: Nah, every band does that, nothing new about it we wanted to separate ourselves from the regular lot. No songs. No album. No gigs. Nothing. Only interviews with you.
Eight Octaves: Now tell us something about yourselves individually. Likes, dislikes, how many packets of cigarettes you finish each day, etc.Something which we do not know.
TOT: 1279 cigarettes, 14 beedis, 1 e-cigarette a day. That you didn’t know.
Eight Octaves: Okay, let’s wrap it up now. Please enlighten all the kids out there why they shouldn’t form a band so that they can do drugs and get laid 😀
TOT: What?
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