Five Silly Questions with Hind Legs
Hind Legs are a sweet, gnarly little two-piece who have recently started playing in public. Halloway Jones (vocals, guitars) and Ben Deinstadt (drums) make crunchy music from a bygone era. Their songs would not be out of place on the Singles soundtrack, except there’d be a lot less Chris Cornell and a lot more of Jones’ soulful wailing. Soon they will play a house party near you.
1. What did you do last Saturday night?
Jones: I celebrated Valentine’s Day early by drinking a bottle of Buckley’s and watching Suspiria. Ben took a minute from watching Beyonce videos to email Margaret Atwood about his cat, Margaret Catwood.
2. How do you know each other and how’d you get together?
Ben was eating pasta in a Dalhousie cafeteria in first year and I grabbed a handful of his meal and walked off. A few years later a mutual friend (Jess Lincoln, who is responsible for our album artwork) gave Ben my number and I got an awkward message on my answering machine asking if I wanted to start a band.
3. If you were both forced to wear a horse suit, which one of you would assume the role of the front part of the horse, and which one would make up the, uh, hind legs?
Ben is a real bitch so I guess he’d be the hind legs. But I’m not sure I have the mental dexterity to lead a horse. Also, he’s nine inches taller than me. This is a tough question. We’d be a grossly-shaped horse.
4. I see you have done some recording. What else is coming up for you (shows, parties, etc)
We’re releasing our first album, Pleasure Cave, shortly. We also just recorded a song for a Scribbler cover compilation. Ben’s working on organizing a hypothetical song-for-song two-piece band duel (KFC two-piece meal for the winners, vegan alternative: two cucumbers. If anyone’s interested they should contact us facebook.com/hindlegs.) I’m working on convincing strangers to let us play their house parties, because booking bar shows is confusing. We try to play Rockin’ 4 Dollars every week.
5. So Valentine’s Day just happened. What’s your favorite makeout album?
Ben hates making out. I’m all about Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.
You can hear a song from Pleasure Cave called “Pigeon” below.
Their Scribbler cover, “Keep Singing” is currently posted at the Hind Legs Myspace.
This article appears in Feb 17-23, 2011.