This weekend, the second annual Vegoose Music Festival takes
place in Las Vegas. Last week, some of the musicians sat down to
discuss the festival with the press. Here are the highlights.
1 Growing up, did you get into the Halloween
spirit much? Jack White: The last time I remember doing something
for Halloween, I was dressed as Frankenstein and I was asked into
somebody’s house and it got really, really odd. . . . He wouldn’t
let me leave. And I think that sort of was the last time I went out
trick-or-treating.
2 Is there anything in particular in Vegas you
guys are looking forward to? Brendan Benson of the Raconteurs:
Burying some bodies out in the desert or digging up some
bodies.
3 Is this a sort of homecoming for you? Jenny
Lewis: It is in a way, yes. Particularly with our new costumes that
we’re wearing onstage, I feel that I’m bringing back the spirit of
my parents’ lounge act that they had in Vegas in the ’70s where my
mother, as the story goes, apparently went into labor with me
onstage at the Sands Hotel.