Alex Love Doll & Icy from Latexxx Teens written by Red
Photo's taken by
Grace Khold
( Dope Stars Inc.)
Date:
November
2005

Location:
Rome, Italy
NF: How did you get started in the music industry?

Icy: Personally, I started playing music when I was thirteen and it was very important stuff, but my first and important experience
was the band now called Draconian Order…
Now Latexxx Teens represents for me another good experience in music business!

Alex: I started about when I was sixteen for fun, I had a black metal band and I was a singer in the band. Then for many years, I
was in the music business, like a writer. I worked for some music magazine, Grind Zone, which is the most important black metal
magazine and another magazine when I wrote about Rock ‘N’ Roll. Then when I met Icy and the other guys in the band, they asked
me to join Latexxx Teens, but at the time they were called Wet Lips and it was my first important experience as a member of a band.

NF: How did Latexxx Teens come together?

Icy: I played with Plastic Poison 69. We played in a festival with My Sixth Shadow three years ago.

Alex: Yes, three years ago.

Icy: And we met the guys of My Sixth Shadow and we became friends and I was in Rome for a holiday and I met we Joseph and we
think about a new band. A Rock ‘N’ Roll band, a side project and then in six or seven months we had the first line-up. So I met
Joseph and he met Plastic Poison and then we met Alex and he was the singer, then we think about a new kind of music. At the
beginning we play Rock ‘N’ Roll.

Alex: but we decided that kind of music did not embody what we were about and actually we thought for something that would
embody our feelings. We thought about the industrial elements and I was a big fan of Shotgun Messiah and in my opinion, they are the
most important band for our kind of music and what we want was our music like that.
So Latexxx Teens became an outrageous industrial punk rock band that mix a lot of band as…

Icy: New York Dolls.

Alex: Hell yeah New York Dolls with Murderdolls. At that moment Murderdolls had a big success and we thought that they had a big
kind of music and we thought that Latexxx Teens could be in the same scene…Latexxx Teens was born. Latex (De)Generation was
the first project of Latexxx Teens.

Icy: We had a drummer too who was the drummer of Draconia Order and he wanted to join because he liked what Latexxx teens was
doing, but he wasn’t professional, I think he wasn’t very interested in the music. He wanted to be cool with the music and cool with
his friends, but now he doesn’t play with Latexxx Teens.

Alex: He was wrong for the band.

NF: Who came up with the name Latexxx Teens?

Icy: First of all, we think about our name. A name with all that we have in mind. ‘Latex’ because we are all interested in the fetish
world. ‘Xxx’ because it is something for the…

NF: Erotic?

Icy: Yes, erotic because we like the fetish, but we want something more elegant, not vulgar.

NF: So, you prefer the classy and not the pornographic side.

Icy: Yes. It is difficult for me to explain it in English. Okay, it is for the art side because I do think it is an art form. There is a
connection between the body and the object, like the latex and any other thing. It is a way to link the sex and the game.

NF: Okay, that is a good explanation.

Icy: We like the fetish and the bondage. It is something you have in mind, a connection between you and your partner and all that you
have around. It is a sexual step for man. And ‘Teen’s for the name, I think we like to remain teens forever, because it is a good age
for the life of the man.

Alex: And he means that he doesn’t want to grow up!

Icy: Because everything is a game.

NF: What is your favourite song that you
have written?

Alex: Personally, my favourite song is the
‘21st Century’ for two aspect. The first one
because is the only song I wrote, with Icy,
for the Ep, and the other aspect because I
like that song is the lyrics. It is about a
conversation between Jesus and Lucifer
and Jesus is tired and asks to Lucifer to live
really. I love every song we wrote because
every song is a part of ourselves. I couldn’t
like just one song of Latexxx Teens because
when we decide to record or play, I
remember that I like the song.

Icy: 69 Ways To Fuck…

Alex: Fuck yeah 69 Ways To Fuck…
It was written by Icy and Plastic Poison. They are the keys to the band.

Icy: Haha, I love you

Icy: I wrote That one with Plastic Poison, I like that song. Every time I have a song in my mind, I think it is the perfect song. When
we write and when we record, it is not like that. I think we can do better every time.

Alex: As a band, it is hard to record every song idea that we have so when we record the song, we have improved that song many,
many times… sometimes we are tired of that song, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t like that song.






























Latexxx Teens was for the revolution against all the aspects I don’t like in life, in this world. I think this is what the people see when
they see a Latexxx Teens show.

NF: What one band would you like to tour with?

Alex: If I had a time machine, I would say Dead Boys. That is one of my favourite bands, a punk band from the Seventies. I could
say New York Dolls, or Vampire Love Dolls, or Shotgun Messiah, but none of them exist anymore. All my heroes are dead or dying.

Icy: I would like to tour with some extreme metal band.

NF: Can you tell us a funny story from your show?

Alex: We have only done one show with Dope Stars Inc and Sigue Sigue Sputnik at the Venice Rock Festival. It was not just the first
Latexxx Teens concert, but it was the first concert of my life and I was nervous when I came to the stage because I had 30 meters.
That is too big for me.

[Everyone laughs.]

Alex: I think that the music will give me the feeling of that night. Probably the best night in my life. It was difficult to play on a stage
like that.

Icy: I have a lot of fun stories but I don’t know if they are for the interview!

NF: How would you describe your other band members?

Icy: Okay, there is Plastic Poison 69, my brother, we play together in lots of bands. We started to play together, create music in this
band and the other band and we get better every time and I think we have something like two sides of the same thing, okay?
Joseph…he is the crazy man in the band, without control, but he is a friend and funny and I like to spend a lot of time with him. La
Nuit, the new member of the band and another great friend and one of the best guitarists to ever play. He is the perfect partner for me
to do this. We have the same idea, we both understand what we want and then Alex. Mr. Love Doll is the man.

Alex: When I joined Latexxx Teens, I find a lot of friends and it is so difficult for me because I have no trust in certain people. Many
people will think I am egocentric and asshole because I don’t give more to people, but when I met them, I change idea about most
people. Icy, he has written a lot of songs for Latexxx Teens with Plastic Poison, his brother and I call him PP69. Plastic Poison is the
origins of the band, if you give him apples, he can make music with apples. He is a genius, I can’t describe him any other way. Then
we have Joseph, I agree with what Icy said about him, he is crazy. Sometimes I feel like I am his father and sometimes I feel like he
is my son, I think I could be a good father!

Icy: In a band, I think there is always one or two people who look like the parents of the others. There is the child in a band, there is
the parents and then there is the others.

Alex: About La Nuit, we went to the same Rock club in Rome and I was a friend of My Sixth Shadow and I was happy when he
joined Latexxx Teens, because he is a good friend and I love the way he plays to. I like the way he sounds because he plays with
some good sounds. Sometimes I don’t like the sounds of..

Icy: Are you going to say something bad about a band, Alex?

Alex: No, I was going to say something of importance about a band that many people like. So I can say I love the way La Nuit play

Icy: Me and La Nuit come from metal, before he play with My Sixth Shadow, from a death metal band so we have this kind of
sound. We are metal guitarists. For example with the sound a bit of, when we can, some typical things of more metal band. I like to
play solo in the way of blues and Rock ‘N’ Roll, but we like to have a very metal and La Nuit is the same, so it is perfect. We are a
metal band, but we aren’t afraid to say that we love this kind of music and sound. In our influence there is a band called the Kovenant
and Rammestein.

Alex: We use power cord guitar.

NF: Name one CD that you can’t live without?

Icy: Lots.

Alex: That it is a hard question. This one for very personal reasons, very personal, I could say Peace Of Mind by Michael Monroe,
singer of Hanoi Rocks. In a very particular way of my life, the only comfort I found was the lyrics of Michael Monroe, for that
reason it is my favourite. Another reason is that it is the song track of me and my girlfriend. I am romantic.

Icy: For me there is a lot of songs. In these days, I listen to a CD and I don’t know. One of the important album for my life is..

Alex: You have to know that Icy, in an hour, can listen to the Kovenant, Backyard Babies, SlipKnot. He listens to everything!

Icy: Yesterday I listen to all evening to one song from a band called Militia Christi…It is very far away from what we do. I love a lot
of kinds of music.

NF: What is one CD that should never have been made? What CD that you hate?

Icy: Erm..there was an album that I hated when I was young, but now I love. For example, a lot of Metallica. When I was little, I
hated them a lot because I wasn’t a fan of Metallica. I find something of interest in these albums. One album I hate, I really hate…
erm, I like a lot of music!

Alex: I don’t like a lot of Love Metal, but I don’t like it because I love HIM. Many years ago I spent two fuckin’ cool night in Rome
with 69 Eyes and Jussi told me about this Finnish band and the first time I listened to HIM, I liked a lot because they are the perfect
mix of Rock ‘N’ Roll and Goth and at the time, I loved many Goth bands. When I listen to Love Metal, I don’t like the production. It
is too ‘poppy’ for my taste. There is some heavy metal that I don’t like today, not because it is heavy metal, but because it is music
for the Eighties. For me there isn’t a reason that Iron Maiden publish a new album. Iron Maiden was good in the Eighties…There’re
only 2 bands can live forever: Motorhead & Ac/Dc…other old bands can die now…

Icy: I like a lot of thrash bands. I don’t understand why I lot of people like them. For me it is important that they are powerful. I like a
lot of punk bands and all the technical stuff that they do. The music is something that you feel, you write something because you feel
something not because you have to demonstrate that you are very technical, you know what I mean? This is one of the musicals that I
can listen to.

Alex: I don’t agree with Icy about the thrash because I think there is a music for everybody. I think that when I was 14, if I listen to
Marilyn Manson, Shotgun Messiah or Muderdolls, maybe I don’t like it because I’m not ready for that music because when you are
fourteen, you are angry with the world and thrash music is perfect when you are angry. Then when you are bigger, you can
appreciate other aspects of music and the feelings. Certainly I like very much the thrash music, but in this moment I have a particular
aversion Testament because three years ago at the Gods Of Metal, they played before Alice Cooper and then Alice Cooper played and
from that moment I have a particular aversion.

NF: Who is your favourite band?

Icy: My band.

NF: You are the first person to ever say that.

Alex: According to my opinion, I could say the same as Icy but at this particular moment, Latexxx Teens does not embody what
Latexxx Teens will embody. I could say a lot of bands that I love, lots of bands. There are some moments of my life that are related
to those bands.

Icy: There is a band that is very important to me in my life and in the last two years, I don’t know, when you love the music of a
band, it is not good to meet the guys of the band. You can hear and see and know a lot of things that you don’t like. I am friends with
a lot of bands, like Cradle Of Filth and Dani is a very cool guy but sometimes I can tell you about whom I like.

Alex: The problem is that we idolize the singers but they are common people, but they can be the good people or the shit people.
Personally, I have a good experience with the guys of Backyard Babies, most gentle man I have met in my life, spoke with them it
was like talking with a friend or Jussi 69, I spent two nights with him in Rome and it was amazing. He doesn’t speak much but the
expression of the man are really amazing.
.
NF: How would you describe your music to someone who had
never heard you before?  

Alex: According to my opinion, Latexxx Teens is a theatrical
state of mind. If you listen you can find party, glam, rock ‘n’
roll. We have everything. Latexxx DeGeneration is based on real
experience. It is very unique. I am not modest.

NF: That’s okay, it makes for a great interview. Talk yourselves
up, enjoy it. What can fans expect from a Latexxx Teens live
show?

Icy: We try having a very metal sound with the guitars, but
something that you can dance too; we try together to have a lot
of artistically interpretation.

Alex: As Icy said now, about music, we want a wall of sound-
guitars. I think our music is a mix of human blood and machines
cold laws. We want a show that shows to the people every
aspect of our music. We are working at this moment for our
show and I think in the, about something that has a visual aspect
will be released in 2006. It will be colder, darker and most
probably, all these aspects will be put in to our shows. We take a
lot of inspiration from many artists, among the others Alice
Cooper, Rob Zombies, M.Manson & Wednesday 13. It is a mix
of metal and punk bands. We are working in that way, we want
to create a revolution on the stage. The first reason I liked