By Paige Maguire on Apr 5, 2010

Interivew By Ryan Muldoon

They say it takes two to tango - apparently, it also takes two to create a massive wall of over-driven, electronic, ear-splitting musical beauty. Or at least that’s what the two members of Screen Vinyl Image have a reputation for doing.

On their most recent album, Interceptors, the duo known as Screen Vinyl Image (Jake and Kim Reid) make the most of countless waves of guitar layers, synthetic beats and keyboard craziness, coming together for a sound that’s dangerous - but somehow, delightfully digestible. When performing live, SVI seek to answer that eternal question, “What would happen if Goblin did the score to Dario Argenta's Susperia after buying the world’s largest PA, bathing themselves in neon light and threatening to crack the audience’s backs through sheer volume?”

And the answer is, “It would be awesome.”

What can you tell us about your commitment to providing a visually stunning live performance? Was that a natural progression or something more of a pre-determined goal for Screen Vinyl Image?

We used to use visuals in our old band Alcian Blue. We started out with a 16mm projector and found films on eBay and then we moved onto doing our own stuff with a digital projector. When we started SVI we wanted to continue that tradition so we started out with oil projectors and strobes before moving onto the digital projector and editing our own visuals. Kim also wanted to do something different from the white strobe effect which is why we use color gels. It's a big inspiration from watching Italian horror movies. We also try to change up the visuals every few months so you might see some of the same stuff, but then a lot of new material as well.

We really like all the psychedelic light show stuff from the 60's and 70's concerts but we also went to raves during the 90's and there is a definite correlation between those two movements and we wanted to have that element in our live performance. Give people something to escape into for 30 or 40 minutes.

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