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If Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux teamed up to rework “Leader of the Pack," they might sound much like Quarterslot — punky, morose purveyors of sexually frustrated female temper tantrums set to music. The unsigned New York City trio is attracting some much-needed attention with their spasmodic live shows and twenty-four-year-old singer Heidi Young. In songs like "Everybody Uses Everyone," Young lyrically confronts every desirable boy from her past who dared not to fuck her, while brittle guitar chords (Dave Hurwitz) drape over a skeletal beat (Mike Horan), aching for a bass line that never shows up.
    Clad in a third-grader’s party dress onstage, Young displays an unruly Patsy Cline/Karen O warble and a pair of legs that would drop a man at fifty paces. Oftentimes they wrap around a mike stand, amplifier, one of her bandmates or an unsuspecting audience member as she attempts — in vain — to hump the pain away.
    The group is recording its first release, an EP tentatively titled “Fuck It, Let’s Get Married.” In the interim, they’re playing every toilet on the Lower East Side. Heidi invited Hooksexup and drummer Mike Horan to a homemade dinner of salmon gumbo, where she discussed the origin of the band’s name (it’s what you’d think), why they live for loneliness, and the concept of "fallout pussy." Then she showed off the stripper pole her dad gave her. — Grant Stoddard
Describe your music.
Heidi: Well, I think it’s been best described as punk-wop — punk meets do-wop.

Quarterslot in action.

How did you get together?
Heidi: I was on my way to visit my family in upstate New York when my car broke down. It was during this nightmare storm, and I ended up stuck for the night at a motel. A real gross one, too. It looked pretty abandoned. But I checked in and could hear music in the background. There was this lounge area with a house band that was rocking out to absolutely no one. They were playing all these covers by Zeppelin, the Doors, the Stones: three of my all-time favorite bands. They eventually knocked off, we all tied one on at the bar and ended up taking it back to my crappy motel room and . . . you know what a "magic fingers" bed is?

No.
Heidi: You throw in a quarter, and it vibrates for a minute. I’d never been on one before, so I got ten bucks in quarters and we all hung out on this vibrating bed together. I told them that they could hang out while I took a shower. They heard me belting out one of the songs they played, and they burst into the shower asking me if I’d sing with them.
Mike: We had no idea she could sing like that.
Heidi: So I said, "If you wanna be in a band with me, you’d better move to the city."
Mike: We were planning to anyway. We’ve called her Quarterslot ever since that night.

Are there any female-fronted bands you’ve taken your cues from?
Heidi: No. When I’m doing anything related to the band, I forget I’m a girl at all times. As a girl, you can get so preoccupied with trying to look pretty and composed, and with the kind of things I’m singing about — well, I’m laying my cards on the table the time. I’m singing about boys that won’t fuck me. It’s pitiful. I can’t hold anything back. From an early age, I’ve always taken on a guylike persona. I wanna be Robert Plant, I wanna be Jim Morrison, James Brown, I wanna be Mick Jagger. Even though I’m always dressed girly, it’s a very masculine sexual persona.

I’d describe you as a cross between Iggy Pop, Wendy O. Williams and Tammy Wynette.
Heidi: It’s funny that you should mention Wendy. I lived in the same building as her as a kid in Tribeca. My dad was a competitive track runner, and he says she used to lap him, she was in such great shape. Even with those big fake tits.

Who writes your lyrics?
Heidi: I do. I write the lyrics and melodies. I show them to the guys and they help restructure and arrange. I don’t know anything about love, anything about guys, anything about being a girl. All of my songs are about my sexual failures.
Mike: The one question we ask ourselves when constructing a song is, “Is this something that strippers would dance to?” If it’s not, we shelve it or rework it.

Maybe you should join Motley Crüe.
Heidi: We should definitely open for them.
Why don’t you have a bass player?
Mike: I dunno. We didn’t intend to do this sorta White Stripes thing. In fact, we did have a bass player, but since he left we’ve been doing fine without one. We err on the side of simplicity, always. A good song ought to grab you if there is a bass line there or not.

"Within the band I have instituted four no-nos: no crack, no heroin, no guest DJing, and no blogging."

You’ve got the hottest pair of legs I’ve ever seen in my life. You must work out.
Mike: A little.
I was talking to her.
Heidi: The only workout I do is on stage. I wrap ’em around Dave’s neck and squeeze real hard. I wear my dresses so short so that people who aren’t in the front few rows can see my legs.
Your live show is really raunchy. You didn’t even tone it down when your parents came to see you at the Pussycat Lounge.
Heidi: They’re almost always in the audience.
You don’t feel shy about asking fans to lick cream off your ass and tits with your mom and dad there?
Heidi: My parents are really cool. My mom can be a little squeamish about seeing me get down with other girls on stage, so I usually give her a heads-up if I feel like doing that. I mean, sure I’m half-naked and thrusting my pussy at the audience when we’re onstage. But I think overall, people think it’s funnier than it is raunchy. T
he joke is that I’m really a little girl pretending to be a sexy woman. I see you have a stripper pole in your bedroom.
Heidi: I know, my dad installed it. What was he thinking? Wanna see me use it?
Sure.
[Heidi begins death-defying multicircumnavigation of the pole, legs akimbo.]
Are there any pitfalls to putting dairy products on the skin?
Heidi: They’re emulsifying, like moisturizers. I love it. I love getting dirty. I wanna smother on a can of Crisco and ride an amplifier.
What’s with the baked goods at the show?
Heidi: I bake before a show — brownies, layer cake. It keeps me centered. And I’ve found that people who come to rock shows also like cake.

Are any of you guys dating right now?
Mike: It kind of feels like we are dating each other.
Heidi: Hmm . . . [using finger quotes] “dating”. Not really. But I tell you, Mike and Dave do pretty well out of this deal. I get a lot of female fans, more than I could handle, so the guys end up getting a lot of my fallout pussy. I get a lot of guys telling me how their girlfriend wants to get in my pants. I’m like “bring ’em on” — so long as they’re willing to share their boy.

What other rules do you have?
Heidi: Within the band, I have instituted four no-nos: no crack, no heroin, no guest DJing, and no blogging. Each is a terrible waste of life. Especially guest DJing. Band people can’t beat-match. It’s almost as retarded as giving a bunch of DJs two guitars and a drum set and asking them to play.

At the last gig, you introduced a song as being about Mike’s ex-girlfriend when you called her a . . .
Heidi: Bitch-ass cunt whore. I said it, I’ll say it again. She is a bitch-ass cunt whore. She led this dude along, tried to play him for a fool, had another man, brought this other guy home while Mike was over. Shit that don’t fly. I just ain’t fucking having none of that. Mike’s awesome. He deserves two times the amount of pussy that Dave gets, which is a fair amount.
Mike: She hasn’t seen the band.
Heidi: But when she does, I will bitch-slap her like she has never been bitch-slapped before. Sex and hopeless longing are what we’re representing up there. When we’re onstage, Dave represents every single guy I’ve ever liked and couldn’t get. He’s my muse during shows. To get his attention becomes my all-consuming goal. It’s like, if I can get him, I’ve gotten all of them.

But, as you saw at our show, he is totally indifferent to my advances. I’m putting my tight ass in his face, stroking his junk through his pants. He just looks at his guitar, which only makes me try harder. In fact, all of the songs are based around a single theme, which is me saying to a cute guy, “I am going to have to work so hard to get your cock inside of me.” Sexual frustration is the name of the game here. Love, lust and longing. I think that all rock stars are recovering losers. If you didn’t get dumped, cheated on, fucked with, why would anyone bother strapping on a guitar?  


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