With Husker Du's Metal Circus celebrating its 40th birthday, Louder took the opportunity to talk to the legend that is Bob Mould about everything from the madness of the Du's early tours and playfully winding up Fugazi to coping with the band's demise and how Sugar "was a rocket ship that went off fast, burned hard and crashed pretty quickly".
For someone who's recently had his head in Thurston Moore's memoir and has also wolfed down Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life, Mould's comments about the inestimable importance of friendship networks and mutually reciprocated generosity to touring the US in the 1980s came as little surprise.
While I would liked to have read more about the post-Sugar period of Mould's life in the late 1990s when he actively threw himself into gay culture and dance music (interviewer Paul Brannigan rather cuts him off there), his observations about the weirdness of the post-COVID live environment are interesting, particularly on the anxiety around transmission: "I had to become like a crazy dictator about people wearing masks at shows." He has a suitably stout riposte to those who moan about the infringement of their liberties: "[W]e're afforded so much freedom in our lives, that the only way we can counterbalance this is to also accept all the responsibility that comes with that freedom." Well said.
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