Countdown to Weatherstock with Don’t Tempt Me Frodo

For our second Weatherstock interview, we bring you the incredibly amusing and delightful band, Don’t Tempt Me Frodo from the not so far off land of Silverlode.

• What made you decide to start a band?
  • Fallilith: Really, it was just something fun to do. We entertain people coming and going in Bree, or play for the animals in the forest. *the rest of the band gives her a series of snickers and raised eyebrows over their glasses*
  • Falillith: What? I like to pretend I’m Snow White or Cinderella. …oh wait… Different genres…companies. *takes a sip of her wine and eyes Chastine* Sorry.
  • Mirineth: There wasn’t really any decision to be made. DTMF was pretty much born to entertain the masses.
  • Chastine: Miri’s got it. We like nonsense and entertaining people,…with nonsense.
  • Junes: The moment we discovered it was possible, it was pretty much a given.
• How long have you been making music together?
  • Junes: We don’t make music. The music makes *us*, maaaan.
  • Chastine: My publicist says it’s better if we don’t actually divulge that information.
• What kind of music can Weatherstock goers expect to hear?
  • Mirineth: My advice to our audience is to not expect anything. If you try to expect the unexpected, then the unexpected becomes the expected, and that’s not our style.
  • Junes: Weatherstock goers should take all the expectations they have and toss them right out their windows, because we’re going to bundle their earlobes up into a big old auditory snowball and roll that sucker down the Hill of Musical Bliss and into the Lake of Rock n’ Roll.
  • Chastine: *laughs hysterically*
  • Fallilith: I’m afraid I can’t answer this question. My lawyer hasn’t approved it yet.
• Do you transcribe the music yourselves?
  • Chastine: I’m afraid I really don’t understand that question.
  • Junes: I don’t think I follow either.
  • Fallilith: *inspects her fingernails intently*
  • Mirineth: Actually, we have hired a group of specially-trained circus animals to do any transcriptions we might need.
• Does your band have any original pieces they play, or alternately, is there a signature tune your band is known for?
  • Junes: *looks up at the ceiling and starts singing to himself* …trololololo, lololo, lololo, trololololooo…
• How do you choose which songs to add to your repertoire?
  • Chastine: We play stuff. If it sounds good, we keep playing it. Sometimes we continue to play it, even if it sounds horrible. We aren’t quitters. Are you calling us quitters? FALLI GET MY LAWYER ON THE WIRE.
  • Junes: All [EXPUNGED] aside… It’s a several step process. First, we get all hopped up on adrenaline and moon rocks and browse The Fat Lute for hours going “that sounds good” and “oh man yes” and filling our music folders with tiny files that we’ll probably never get around to playing. Then some day, perhaps months later, we check in the piles of dusty, cobwebbed .abcs and find something that we can be bothered to copy and paste into LOTRO, and then we listen to it with our extremely discerning ears and pronounce it either fit for public consumption or a hideous travesty. Then, finally, we all play it on bagpipes and immediately wish we hadn’t.
  • Mirineth: Unless there is a specific song that we think would sound particularly delightful on bagpipes, we usually just browse The Fat Lute when we get bored. Song selections are usually based on “Ooh, I bet that would be fun!”, as long as it is not followed by “No. No, it wouldn’t.”.
• Do you hold regularly scheduled concerts on your home server?
  • Fallilith: Nah. That stuff’s for hipsters. We fly by the seat of our pants, or dresses, depending on the day.
  • Junes: *snorts* I don’t even hold regularly scheduled mealtimes. I think I might be allergic to planning.
  • Chastine: Mostly we like to sweep into a location and then we discreetly deploy our highly trained group of music-playing ninja assassins.
  • Mirineth: Our publicists feel that it would be inconsistent with our ‘style’ to do anything predictable.
  • Chastine: Why do you keep telling people that?
  • Mirineth: [EXPUNGED]
• Are you available for parties/events other kins may be having?
  • Chastine: Absolutely. Contact Me or Fallilith via tell or in-game mail for booking.
  • Junes: We accept cash, credit cards, IOUs, good karma, gold bars, and the wishes of innocent children. The best way to contact us is to dial 1-800-GET-DTMF, apologize to whoever picks up because you’ll have the wrong number, then hang up and contact one of us in-game.
  • Mirineth: We do reserve the right to refuse to cater events at which we perform (a concept some haven’t quite yet grasped) and break out into ‘Trololo’ at any and all points during the event.
• How do you decide on wardrobe and colour choices?
  • Chastine: We tend to choose our wardrobe based on whatever we feel like at the moment. As stated on our recruitment page, we would never discriminate against any members of the vegetable kingdom.
  • Junes: No, honey. You remember. Our costuming department comes up with an idea in-house and makes a demo, which is then presented to the marketing department, who makes a presentation to the board of directors who file an application for funding from the accountancy department, who fill out Form D-32B and make resources available to costuming, who make us up a working model, and the rest is just a matter of synergizing collective productived watershed innovation for leveraged dynamic payable mass-synaptic uptier incentivization going forward.
  • Fallilith: Meh, I personally wear whatever I feel like wearing. Sometimes, at our impromptu concerts you can see me in a shabby dress and hat.
  • Mirineth: Our wardrobe selection process is very similar to our song selection process. Usually initiated by a “Ooh, I bet that would look cool!” without a subsequent “No. No, it wouldn’t.”
  • Chastine: Says you. I’m [REDACTED] fabulous, honey.
• Any special surprises in store for Weatherstock that you care to share with readers, or any special message you’d like to give concert goers?
  • Chastine: If we told you that, it wouldn’t be a surprise.
  • Junes: Make sure to say goodbye to your wife and kids before you go to Weatherstock. We’re going to rock so hard, you’ll never make it home.
  • Fallilith: You know what, I agree with Junes on this one. *Fallilith and Junes high five. Junes summarily throws the horns*
  • Mirineth: My special message for the Weatherstock concert-goers would be: “…and now for something completely different.”