Well, the word ‘Love’ often means ‘Lust’ in Rock & Roll. I thought it was nice to present it as a drug that could give you a hangover and the cure is: love again!

The tricky thing with rock ‘n roll lyrics is that you have a short song, a chorus that usually repeats a part of the lyric and that you are commonly need short sentences that rhyme. If you think you have a bit of an insight and want to express that through a rock and roll lyric, things are way more complicated than they seem.

In ‘Never So Right’ i took a take on the phrase ‘circumstances make the guy’ – an often heard argument in discussions about nature vs nurture. I thought that we don’t have as much of a free will as we like to think and changed quote into: ‘but circumstances do not make the guy, they just reveal him when he waves goodbye’. This way i could write a song about the singer having a broken heart as well as give a little thought provocation.

We can cherish our past but we should not cling to it – and it’s great if we learn through experiences but we should not be defined by our mistakes only.

‘Qui est ‘In’, qui est ‘out’ was written by Serge Gainsbourg. I arranged this cover version and we recorded it with the Spinshots for the compilation album ‘Gainsnord’ – Ditch band playing music by Serge Gainsbourg.

the Désirs Mutuels single came out as a dvd with a videoclip. For the clip, we went into an abandoned warehouse with a working elevator. This was all done ‘no-budget’ and the cover art was silk printed by hand on the cheapest DVD packages we could get our hands on. Still love the song, the clip and the package art, though.

Original cover for ‘Qui est ‘in’, qui est ‘out’. But since the track came out as the single for the compilation album ‘Gainsnord’ this one was never used, in stead it had the ‘Hanco Kolk’ cover.

Désirs Mutuèls was the first clip we made for the Spinshots.

I had they idea finding out that the first recordings we made without microphones. A needle was sunk into turning wax and the band would be playing around it. So if somebody had a feature in the music, they had to com closer to the registering needle. In my head, this transformed to a videoclip in which the Spinshots would live in an elevator and we had to come close to the camera on a tripod if we had a feature.

My friend Rudy had a key to an empty gigantic office building in the middle of the city. We built up our set in the elevator and shot our clip in one night.
Although the colossal building was empty, the elevators were still working, even by themselves. This made filming the clip quite a challenge as we ran the risk the elevator we were acting from would suddenly take leave. During this one-take shot, it actually did not leave when we wanted it to and kept that in, because it provided a funny, very ‘Spinshots-like’ moment.

Never So Right is the first (and only) LP recorded by the Spinshots. I wanted the cover to look like one of those albums with a great cover and shitty music on it, as a practical joke. We asked photographer FotoFloor and stylist Iris Satijn to help us with the cover image. Emanuel Wiemans helped me with the handwritten typography and on the inside you see the musicians of the band in a toy rikshaw. This all should represent the serious-but-not-serious outlook of the Spinshots.