Defamer Australia versus Angie Hart | Win Tickets To The Melbourne Shows!

Hurrah! Turns out we were the highest bidder in the Ebay auction of the “special journalist gear” we mentioned yesterday, so this morning we went hunting and captured one Angela Ruth Hart. Once she regained consciousness, we sat her down and asked her some very hard hitting questions. We can smell the Walkley from here. 

After the jump, our interview with Angie Hart – plus a chance for Melbourne readers to win tickets to her live show!

DA - Your band is, quite frankly, incredibly attractive. Was there a casting couch?

Angie Hart - Umm, well – of sorts.

DA - Really?

Angie Hart - No.

DA - Oh. It’s also a bit of a rock and roll all-star crew, isn’t it? Pat and Shan are in Dallas Crane, Dan Luscombe is in The Drones… can punters expect a fist-pumping sweaty extravaganza at your show?

Angie Hart - At times, yes. All the moments I’m not singing, they get to rock.

DA - ANGIE HART FACT! You hate mayo. Please describe in excessive detail why.

Angie Hart - Umm, reasons why? That list is growing all the time. In fact, there are many creamy sauces that I cannot deal with. And if anyone puts mayo on my food, I get extremely angry.

DA - We fear your mayonnaise related wrath.

Angie Hart - Good.

DA - Is it because mayo is vaguely semen like? Do you not like guzzling semen?

Angie Hart - I don’t like guzzling semen, fake or real.

DA - Disappointing.

Angie Hart - Yes, for some. It’s also very windy today, which makes me angry.

DA - You’re a bit surly today, aren’t you?

Angie Hart - Expect an angry show tonight.

DA - Indeed. We understand you recently performed Accidently Kelly Street for the first time in an age. What happened there?

Angie Hart - Yes, it was an extremely special occasion. The stage was an unusual one – I performed it under a laminex table at an Adelaide venue for a six year old fan. An audience of just one, who had to sing all of the lyrics because I didn’t remember them.

DA – Did you perform it ‘darkly’?

Angie Hart – No, more a cappella with a big smile on my face, and an encouraging look.

DA - AND WILL YOU DO THE SAME THING AT YOUR MELBOURNE SHOWS?

Angie Hart - Absolutely not. But I do have a new rule that anyone under the age of eight can get a rendition.

DA - That’s a good rule.

Angie Hart - Yeah.

DA - How do you feel about the new Kylie single?

Angie Hart - Well, my friend Jess McGuire played it for me ten times yesterday, and I liked it very much. It’s very musical.

DA - Can you see yourself going in that direction with your next album?

Angie Hart - Yeah, I’d like to. I’m always living in the shadow of Kylie. Now I’m pursuing her musical direction. Who’d have thunk it?

DA - It’s a well known bit of trivia that you count Joss Whedon and his wife Kai Cole as two of your best mates. You appeared on Buffy a number of times, but the other day we were watching Firefly with a friend and noticed you featured in an episode – as a whore.

Angie Hart - What a stretch it was. I did a lot of research for that.

DA - Are you saying you’re a method actor? Interesting!

Angie Hart - I did have to wear a corset in Firefly, which I couldn’t fill, sadly.

DA - But you have nice cans!

Angie Hart - Thank you. Don’t forget to mention that when you type this up.

DA - In any case, during the episode your character mentions getting a preacher to perform church services for the ladies in the brothel, and goes on to reveal that the preacher insisted on payment from you in the form of “trade”. If someone wanted a ticket to your show and asked for you to take the monetary cost of the ticket “in trade”, would you be open to this?

Angie Hart - I’d be open. Can’t say what the outcome would be. It’s a per person situation, it depends who is asking. Anyone under eight, definitely not

DA - So it’s either Kelly Street or a root for punters?

Angie Hart - (laughs) Yes, exactly.

DA - What are your favourite television shows?

Angie Hart - Boston Legal.

DA - That’s it?

Angie Hart - That’s literally it. But I’ve watched a bit of Wife Swap in my time.

DA - What are three websites you check every day.

Angie Hart - I don’t check any website every day.

DA - Liar! LIAR!

Angie Hart - I don’t! I check my favourite sites once a week.

DA - Sure, sure. Okay, which three sites do you check “once a week” then?

Angie Hart - PostSecret, Cute Overload and Freewill Astrology.

DA - What are the last five songs you listened to on your iPod?

Angie Hart - Last five songs? Oh god, I don’t know. I’ve been listening to alot of M Ward lately – The Transfiguration of Vincent – but I can’t remember which song in particular. Oh wait, I think it’s called Undertaker.

DA - Name a band you like that people might be surprised to learn that you to like.

Angie Hart - Jesus!

DA - Jesus didn’t have a band! Think harder. We hear you like hip hop.

Angie Hart - Yeah, I do. Yeah. I like the old school stuff – Public Enemy, De La Soul. Actually I found a kindred spirit in Dave McComb (frontman of The Triffids) who was a massive hip hop fan of the old school variety.

DA - One of our readers described the video clip to your single Cold Heart Killer as “gaytastic” as it has a heap of feathers and sparkles and dancers. What can we expect from your next single Care’s video clip? Will it be even gayer?

Angie Hart - I believe so. Yeah, there’s some hair extensions and some seriously long flowy outfits. People in leotards. I don’t know what it is with the new Angie Hart direction and people in leotards, but it’s very Kate Bush. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

DA - Our UK correspondent Will would like you to represent Australia in Eurovision 2008. Are you willing?

Angie Hart - He and my mother would like that, I reckon. I don’t know what this says about them. But I believe that I’m not an eligible candidate, even though I’m “gaytastic”. I don’t think I qualify for Eurovision. I don’t wear a headpiece microphone.

DA - You should start!

Angie Hart - Maybe if I wear a bluetooth headpiece from now until then?

DA - Good idea.

Angie Hart - Done.

DA - Finally, say something nice about Defamer Australia. You can lie.

Angie Hart - Besides the fact that Defamer Australia has their finger on the pulse at all times, and I wouldn’t know anything about current affairs if I didn’t read over it all the time because I don’t read tabloids? I think that they’re factually spot on when it comes to everything in the world of cheese.

DA - Thank you, Angie Hart.

Angie Hart - (silence)

DA - Say thank you back!

Angie Hart - What?

DA - SAY THANK YOU BACK!

Angie Hart - Oh, thank you Defamer Australia.

DA - Well done.

ED: Angie Hart’s album launch tour winds up with two shows in Melbourne tonight (Thursday 18th October) and tomorrow night (Friday 19th October) at The Toff In Town. She will not be performing Accidently Kelly Street (unless you are under eight years of age), but we hear there’s a very good chance of Bizarre Love Triangle appearing in the set list. Plus you can ogle her spunky band as they help belt out tracks from her ace debut solo record ‘Grounded Bird’. Tickets are $18 (we think – they’re $15 + BF) and you should hopefully be able to buy them on the door if you are a credit card-less creature like us and cannot pre-book. Of course, you COULD win some FREE TICKETS by READING THE NEXT PARAGRAPH AND FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS!

COMPETITION – We have two tickets for Angie Hart’s Melbourne show at The Toff In Town tonight, and another two tickets to give away for tomorrow night’s show. In the spirit of Angie’s deep hate of mayo (note – we didn’t even get to talking about her pathological anger toward mushrooms), she would like you to tell Defamer Australia what your most loathed foodstuff is and why. Email tips@defamer.com.au – and make sure you mention which night you’d like to go – and the tickets could be all yours!