Turning heads and stomach since the mid-1980s, Crysi de Milo is a noise maker, wordsmith and splatterer of paint from Brighton. Here, she spills what she’s been up to during lockdown, what she’s been feasting on, and new music from her band #…
Hey Crysi, tell us a bit about yourself…
Hello I’m Crysi de Milo. I am a 36 year old human artist working in the field of noise.
How have you been spending your time during lockdown?
I’ve been really getting to know the inside of my brain, cultivating some carnivorous plants, crying, learning to cook things, buying endless candles, drinking heavily, crying some more, writing a song about it…
What’s been the biggest impact to your creative output?
It’s been minimally rejuvenated but overall I’m still a sloth and a hermit and always will be. Forward inches the snail of progress.
Have you been watching much online?
I have really been enjoying the lockdown live-streams of Penny Arcade and the SoHo Theatre has had great plays, like Fleabag, streaming recently too.
How is lockdown affecting the queer community as a whole?
Well I think the hole is unaffected and that’s a problem! Its very difficult to access any kind of holistic nightlife also. But the queer community is used to biding its time in the shadows. We’ve got this.
What are your plans for when this is all over? Anything on the horizon?
I plan on making Annabel Chong look like an amateur. And to take to the stages, in multiple guises. If there are stages again. If there aren’t we shall fashion ones from the wreckage of the old world.
Any tips to keep us busy?
You could get a 1,000 piece jigsaw of some sky, or rearrange your spice rack, or rewind all your cassettes with a pencil?
Do you have any work you’d like to share with us?
Yes! I finished demoing an album with my band Silistra last year. We are an ambient cinematic noir rock band making odd nightmarish soundscapes. Find us on Soundcloud. I have also released an audio collection of poetry called ‘With Venom’ which was criminally overlooked so check it out. You can hopefully see me in the flesh somewhere and somewhen in the new world too, playing with Silistra and in other secret noisy guitar based things.
Any words of wisdom to help us through?
PUPATE
MORE INFO:
POETRY – www.soundcloud.com/crysidemilo
MUSIC – www.soundcloud.com/silistratheband
ART – @bimbo_vinyl on Instagram
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