ashley Melzer writes the gimme five! column for the carrboro citizen’s MILL blog (carrborocitizen.com/mill/tag/gimme-five), in which she asks five local bands five probing questions. Below is a selection of favorites from the column to date. g Billy SugarfIx The Citizen: Who/what might be a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people? BS: Enya. i like Enya. Yes that’s right … the Celtic New age “Sail away” lady. H i think “Orinoco Flow” is a brilliant piece of music. So there. 4/2 Fri HOUSE OF FOOLS / JOSH MOORE / BJ BARHAM KatharIne WhaLen 4/3 Sat 100 MONKEYS TC: Describe the last time you felt really lucky. 4/5 Mon MC FRONTALOT / BRANDON PATTON 4/6 tue MITCH EASTER / CITAY / BIRDS OF AVALON 4/7 Wed WHITE RABBITS / LET’S WRESTLE KW: This past month, when i was snowed in for three days with my family 4/8 thu SPIRITUAL REZ and lots of supplies (and cats) and i wrote four songs. 4/9 Fri DTH Diversions Showcase: LUEGO / THE BEAST DIRTY LITTLE HEATERS / JASON KUTCHMA 4/10 Sat RED SPAROWES / DOOMRIDERS 4/11 Sun ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / OVER-GAIN OPTIMAL DEATH reeSe Mchenry of DIrty LIttLe heaterS CLANG QUARTET Billy Sugarfix 4/12 Mon THE APPLESEED CAST / DREAMEND TC: When exactly did rock die and what are the Dirty little Heaters 4/13 tue TIM BRANTLEY / SHAWN FISHER doing about it? 4/14 Wed ALOHA / POMENGRANATES / BEN DAVIS & THE JETTS 4/15 thu GOSSIP GROWS ON TREES / THE FUTURE IS ME 4/16 Fri XIU XIU / TUNE YARDS rM: We all know that Starship killed rock and roll. How one band can fall 4/17 Sat CHRIS PUREKA / XYLOS from “Surrealistic pillow”/”White rabbit” to “Knee Deep in the Hoopla”/”We 4/18 Sun TITUS ANDRONICUS / SPIDER BAGS Built this City” is seriously beyond me. as a band, we struggle and truly try 4/19 Mon NICK HOWARD 4/20 tue SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE to write the greatest songs on the face of the Earth….. Hopefully, we’ll be 4/21 Wed LA STRADA able to write really good songs before we get to “We Built This City” – but 4/22 thu THE COATHANGERS 4/23 Fri CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE we’ll see what happens. MAGICAL BEAUTIFUL 4/24 Sat VIOLET VECTOR & THE LOVELY LOVELIES THE HUGUENOTS with DJ Mixcake 4/26 Mon OWEN PALLETT / SNOWBLINK reid JohnSon of Schooner 4/29 thu SGRAVEYARD FIELDS CD Release Show TC: What made you/when did you decide to release the newest Schooner 4/30 Fri HAMMER NO MORE THE FINGERS / DEMON BEAT LILLE BRONZE music on CyTunes? 5/1 Sat MANDOLIN ORANGE CD Release Show with RYAN GUSTAFSON 5/4 tue LOCAL NATIVES / SUCKERS rJ: after having this Ep recorded and sitting around waiting to be released, 5/5 Wed CAPTURED BY ROBOTS i felt like CyTunes would be the most meaningful place for it. i was good 5/6 thu HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL 5/7 Fri I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT / SUGAR GLYDER / BUSTELLO buddies with Cy; we used to play basketball together and do sketch comedy 5/9 Sun Cat’s Cradle Presents ALL LEATHER / YIP YIP in “The popular Kids” comedy troupe that would perform at Kings Barcade. 5/12 Wed MALAIKAT DAN SINGA 5/14 Fri FAN TAN / FREE ELECTRIC STATE / CITIFIED Giving the music to a cause felt right, especially after working with a 5/15 Sat Closed for Private Party sweetheart like Jerry Kee on the recording. 5/16 Sun EVERYBODY WAS IN THE FRENCH RESISTANCE…NOW 5/20 thu BLACK SKIES / MUSIC HATES YOU / MAKE Katharine Whalen 5/21 Fri CHARLIE MARS 5/22 Sat Cat’s Cradle Presents MATT POND PA / BOBBY LONG Pete anD anDrea connolly of BIrds 5/28 Fri SAM QUINN 5/29 Sat GIL MANTERA’S PARTY DREAM anD arroWS 6/3 thu AMERICAN AQUARIUM TC: What did you dream of being when you were a kid? 6/8 tue Cat’s Cradle Presents NATIVE / THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS (How’d that turn out?) 6/15 tue DISAPPEARS / WOVEN BONES 506 W. Franklin St. • Chapel Hill pC: i told my mom when i was 5 that i wanted to be a jet airplane salesman 942-5506 • www.local506.com or i could fall back on being a rockstar…. The air industry doesn’t look so enticing anymore, so i’m working on the rockstar thing. support aC: Well, music and performing is the only thing i have ever done since i could talk. So i would have to say a musician of some kind. Then, when i picked up a guitar in middle school and got introduced to classic local rock, i wanted to be Stevie Nicks. Oh, and i also in the back of my mind wanted to be a vet, like a lot of little kids. i loved animals. So i actually tried this for a semester in college and after castrating a pig i realized it wasn’t for me. So, back to the stage. BIZ reece Mchenry 14 carrborocitizen.com/mill + april 2010 MILL.