Kerôk

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People are still outside, smoking and chatting. At the entrance, instead of the usual nightclub stamp, they draw a little doodle on your arm.
As soon as you walk in, on the left there’s the Sticknpork corner, where tattoos are being done. On the right, a table stacked with beers and pizza. In the back, long shelves cover the entire wall, filled with works by Giulia and Anna.
On one of those shelves sits a big white plate, balancing between the ceramics, with portraits that Eva, Beth, and Cin — the band’s singers — drew of each other.

They arrived in Gallarate for their tour straight from Australia.
They’re traveling across Europe in a van — it’s the first time in Italy for all of them, and Giulia’s studio is one of their very first stops.
On stage they go by the name Itchy and the Nits (which in Italian would be something like “prurito e le pulci”).

Beth and Cin are sisters, though very different from each other: Beth is short, dark-haired, and curly; Cin has copper-colored hair, she’s taller and has a quieter, more reserved way about her.
Eva is tall, blonde, with a big smile and a pink feather snake draped around her neck.

Before them, Kanfora and Five Bucks took the stage.
Right after the show, we caught the girls still out of breath from screaming into the mic, and moved into the ceramics room for the interview.
(text by Sofia Guastoni)

drawings by Chiole

What animal would you like to be?
Eva: a cuckoo or an orangutan.
Beth: a gorilla.
Cin: a greyhound.

What’s your biggest dream?
Eva says that, for some reason, she secretly wants to meet Debbie Harry.
Beth exclaims, “Oh, even though I said I’d be a gorilla, my biggest dream is still to hug a chimpanzee!”
Everyone bursts out laughing. Cin squeezes in between the voices and says shyly: “Mine is to see the Northern Lights.”

What do you do for a living?
Eva is caught off guard, then remembers: “Oh god, I was about to forget that until a few weeks ago I used to work… I still work in a place where people buy, sell, and swap clothes — kind of like a vintage swap shop. People bring in their clothes, we price them, and sell them.”
Beth says she quit her job as a picture framer before leaving, but she hopes to go back to it once she’s back in Australia.
Cin surprises us: she’s about to start a PhD in art history to work at a university. She finishes with a little laugh: “Maybe I’ll just be a student forever.”

What would you do with 100,000 euros?
Beth quickly points out: “That’s 200,000 dollars!”
Eva already knows: “Maybe I’d stay in Italy longer?”
Giulia gets super hyped — that’s exactly what we wanted to hear.
Beth and Cin take longer to answer, taking the question surprisingly seriously.
Beth goes from “I don’t know” to some thinking out loud, then decides (a bit hesitantly): “Maybe half for a mortgage and half for a long vacation.”
Cin, like her sister, would invest it: she’d buy land and build a house on it.

What is love to you?
Eva thinks for a moment, then answers with a question: “Maybe Beth and Cin?”
Beth repeats the question to buy time and says, “It’s too hard to answer.”
Eva remembers her boyfriend, but it’s too late — Beth and Cin have already taken his place.
Beth surprises us: for her, love is relaxing. Not about loving others, but about loving yourself — feeling good, enjoying things without worrying.
Cin wanted to say the same thing and adds: “Not stressing out, saying and doing whatever you want, and feeling good.”

What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you on tour?
Eva jumps in defensively: “We’re still just getting started!” Then tells us about their van troubles: “We broke a light and there’s a big dent in one of the side doors. Fingers crossed they don’t notice when we return it.”
Beth shares how Eva snores: switching between a normal aaaaahhhh and an ihhhhhh (which, according to all three, is impossible to reproduce).
Cin remembers: “Something crazy happened to us in San Francisco, when we found the car door completely shat on by someone — and we had no idea how or why.”

Favorite song?
Eva: Cry for a Shadow (by The Beatles).
Beth: “Lately I’ve been listening to Cruel to Be Kind — can’t remember who it’s by…” and starts humming it. “I love it!” (It’s by Nick Lowe.)
Cin takes a while, but finally picks We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Goin’, Baby by Simon & Garfunkel.
Beth adds: “Cin and her boyfriend Dave do an amazing cover of it. Almost better than the original.”

How did you all meet?
Eva tells us she met Beth while working at an ice cream shop. When she first started, she was always nervous because Beth would constantly prank her — sometimes telling her the boss was super pissed, even when it wasn’t true.
Beth remembers it differently: she met one of Eva’s friends first, who asked her to play music together after finding out she had a drum set. Then Eva joined, and finally Cin.

What would you put in a sandwich?
Eva: “Maybe feta, salami, lettuce… and maybe some pickles? I don’t know if that’s weird.”
Beth: “Oh god! Definitely sourdough bread, pesto” — she looks at Eva to check if she already said it — “goat cheese, arugula, salami for me too, tomato, and mustard.”
Eva laughs and asks, “And tomato sauce?” But Beth, completely serious, says no.
Cin knows exactly what she wants: “A good tuna sandwich with jalapeños, pickles, onions, cheese, and mustard.”

We finish the interview with Amore Disperato playing in the background and head back in to dance.

Interview by Reb & Giuli